During the first week of March 2018, the BioEcoN consortium met for the first technical meeting at the Vietnam National University of Forestry in Hanoi. The BioEcoNet Project aims to develop a Msc. curriculum on sustainable bio-economy by 2020. Researchers and lectures from Germany, Spain, Finland and Vietnam used the meeting in Hanoi to discuss the topic of bio-economy, and to discuss priorities and the development plan for the new curriculum. Discussions highlighted the different traditions and multi-actor perspectives of the four partner countries. These perspectives will flow into the learning and teaching materials to be developed. At the end of the meeting the team agreed on work packages to be implemented until the next technical meeting in June 2018 in Finland.