Nordic Energy Research is partner in the Bioenergy Promotion project and besides beeing Task Leader in work Package 2 and Work Package 5 they are also a member of the Steeering Committee.
Nordic Energy Research is the funding institution for energy research under the Nordic Council of Ministers – an intergovernmental body between Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland.
We promote research and innovation in new energy technologies and systems by fostering competitiveness, cooperation and increased knowledge creation in Nordic research initiatives. Nordic Energy Research funds and coordinates research, as well as providing administrative expertise, network building and advice.
The Swedish Energy Agency is the national authority for energy policy issues. The Agency’s headquarters are in Eskilstuna and it has around 250 employees.
Our mission is to promote the development of Sweden’s energy system so that it will become ecologically and economically sustainable. This means that energy must be available at competitive prices and that energy generation must make the least possible impact on people and the environment.
In simple words, a smarter use of energy.
The Swedish Energy Agency is the co-ordinator of the Bioenergy Promotion project
The Swedish Forest Agency is the Government's expert authority on forests and forest policy. Our mission is to work for a sustainable utilisation of the Swedish forests, in accordance with the guidelines given by the Parliament and the Government.
The Swedish Forest Agency is the national authority responsible for matters relating to the forest. It strives to ensure that the nation’s forests are managed in such a way as to yield an abundant and sustainable harvest, while at the same time preserving biodiversity. The Agency also strives to increase awareness of the forest’s significance, including its value for outdoor recreation. The Agency has offices throughout the country. Its most important tasks are to give advice on forest-related matters, supervise compliance with the Forest Act, provide services to the forest industry, support nature conservation efforts, and conduct inventories.
The Board of Agriculture is the Government´s expert authority in the
field of agriculture and food policy, and the authority responsible for the agricultural and horticultural sector. This means that we monitor, analyse and report to the Government on developments in these areas, and implement policy decisions within our field of activities. One major task is administration of the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
The Institute of Rural Development of the County of Jämtland (JiLU), theme Forest, Bispgården is a development of the Northern Forest Institute in Bispgården. There, forest courses have been conducted since 1897.
At JiLU, Theme Forest research training and development projects are conducted in cooperation with forest owners' movement, LRF and the applied forestry. JiLU Theme Woodland also arranges longer and shorter training courses, seminars and excursions connected to the ongoing projects for forestry.
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) was established January 1, 2004 as an independent institute at LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences, according to clause 31 of the Danish University Act.
The Institute was established in a merger between the former sector research institute, Danish Institute of Food Economics, under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and relevant units at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, i.e. Unit of Economics, Unit of Learning and Interdisciplinary Methods and Unit of Bioethics and Risk Assessment.
Roskilde University is a state university founded in 1972 with the objective of providing research and education at the highest level in the fields of natural science, social science and the humanities. These activities at Roskilde University are organised in six departments; degrees are offered in a wide range of subjects at Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. levels.
Region Sjælland (English: Region Zealand) is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties ("amter") with five larger regions. Region Sjælland consists of the former counties of Roskilde, Storstrøm, and Vestsjælland.
The foundation Private Forest Centre (PFC) was established on the 23rd of March in 1999. It ensures the fulfilment of the duties of the state towards private forest owners offering advices, trainings and facilitating the application for state support. It thus cooperates closely with state institutions and local private forest organizations and is governed by representatives of private forests as well as by civil servants. The main objective of the PFC is to increase sustainable, environmentally friendly and efficient forest management practices in the Estonian forests conducted by the private forest owners.
The Private Forest Center is together with the Tallinn Technical University national partner for Estonia in the project. PFC acts as national contact point during the course of the project, and the resources are used further after the project will be ended. In close cooperation with the international partners, PFC hopes to develop a basis for bioenergy use in Estonia and to raise the awareness especially in Estonian private forestry. With the start of the project 2009, PFC will be able to realize a research stressing a holistic overview on the situation for the use of bioenergy in Estonia. The results and experiences will be spread during national and international workshops in the course of the project. Forest owners can use the PFU platform to inform themselves. Individual consultation of private forest owners is foreseen for the second and third year (2010, 2011).
Learn about the PFC project activities here: http://www.eramets.ee/?op=body&id=40
The mission of Tallinn University of Technology is to support Estonia’s sustainable development through scientific creation and science-based higher education in the field of engineering, technology, natural and social sciences.
With its eight faculties, four colleges and R&D institutions, Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) is a national university of technology, internationally renowned, known as a reliable partner at different levels of collaboration networks. We are serving our nation as a hothouse of engineering and technology professionals and a driving force for the development of a knowledge-based economy. TUT fosters integration of technical and related natural and social sciences and humanities that create a basis of higher technological education and advancement of Estonia’s economy. We are committed to collaboration in the networks of the countries of the Baltic Sea region, Europe- and worldwide. TUT is seeking international institutional accreditation in the next years.
Motiva Oy is an expert company promoting efficient and sustainable use of energy and materials. Its services are utilised by the public administration, businesses, communities, and consumers. Motiva operates as an affiliated Government agency (an in-house unit), and its functions will be developed as such. The company’s entire share stock is in Finnish state ownership.
Mission
We create well-being by promoting the use of energy and materials that are as harmless to the environment and as productive as possible.
The University of Joensuu was established in 1969. It includes eight faculties and nine non-faculty institutes. The University offers undergraduate and graduate degree in eight different fields; education, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences,
economics, forestry, theology and psychology.
The University has campuses in Joensuu and Savonlinna. Mekrijärvi Research Station is located in Ilomantsi. The strenghts and areas of expertise of the University of Joensuu are research and teaching relating to education and human development, forests and the environment, optics, new materials and information technology as well as border studies and Russia.
The University has over 8500 students, 1100 of whom are on the Savonlinna campus. Every year approximately 1500 new students are admitted. The staff comprises about 1400 people, of whom 170 work on the Savonlinna campus. Almost 600 international students annually study at the University of Joensuu.
Tapio consulting services provide tools and knowledge to achieve better forest management - we turn vision into success. Tapio has the experience of over hundred years with developing sustainable forest management in Finland and we want to share the knowledge with our customers. We continuously develop systems for more effective processes in forestry.
The project has participants from Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden and is funded by Nordic Energy Research
This project aims at addressing the following hypotheses:
A fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical mechanisms that occur during wood pre-treatment will improve the overall economy of bioethanol production by i) reducing the degradation of cellulose and hemi-cellulose into materials that are not suitable for ethanol production, ii) minimizing the formation of by-products that are inhibitors to the subsequent hydrolysis and fermentation of sugars, iii) enabling the design of pre-treatment processes that match a specific biomass feedstock
Development of predictive pre-treatment models will enable the selection, design, optimization and process control that will match biomass feedstock with the appropriate method and process configuration. Production cost of bioethanol can be reduced by co-localization or integration with an existing industry infrastructure such as a pulp mill or an oil refinery and/or by integrating conversion processes and equipment to co-produce bioethanol and other value-added products from biomass in a biorefinery. The main objective of this project is to develop new pre-treatment techniques that will reduce the overall production costs for fuel-ethanol from Nordic lignocellulosic biomass.
Until 1986 environmental matters were dealt with by three different ministries within the Federal Government: the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health. On 6 June 1986 the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety was established. Since then it has been responsible within the Federal Government for (lead-managing) national environmental policy.
The Ministry, which under a resolution of the German Bundestag has its principal office in Bonn, has some 830 employees in six departments there and at its second office in Berlin.
The Federal Environment Ministry's sphere of responsibility also embraces three federal agencies with a combined total of more than 1,880 employees: the Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) and the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz). The ministry also receives advice in the form of statements and expert opinions from several independent expert bodies. The principal advisory bodies are the Council of Environmental Advisors (Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen) and the Advisory Council on Global Change (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Umweltveränderungen).
FNR (Agency for Renewable Resources) was founded in 1993 by the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Our main responsibility is to support research and development in the area of renewable resources, but we also inform the public about current research results, give advice on a range of applications of renewable resources and organise and take part in scientific events.
The University of Rostock defines its position in today's knowledge society with the guiding principle "Traditio et Innovatio" - reflection on a history rich in tradition, starting with the foundation of the university back in 1419, and a clear focus on innovation in all areas of research and education
Northwestern Mecklenburg is a Kreis (district) in the north-western part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the coast of the Baltic Sea and border on Schleswig-Holstein.
Farmers and forest owners, agricultural, horticultural and forest entrepreneur, countrywomen, employers and employees in all green professions, all have an interest to work with the Chamber of Agriculture Lower Saxony as an actor in the rural areas of Lower Saxony and Europe. Our topics of the Chamber are the life, work and training of people in agriculture, forestry and horticulture in rural areas.
The Chamber of Agriculture Lower Saxony...
… is an area-wide organisation – always close to its members.
… is professionally competent, neutral and independent.
… puts the concept of self-government into daily practice through the links between head offices and honorary offices.
The tasks:
The tasks of the Chamber are wide-ranging, including advice, financial support and professional training.
The advisory service is more than just individual consultations on the farm, it also includes a research establishment which is unique in the country, as well as a service for market analysis and the provision of agricultural market reports.
Through further and professional education and training, the Chamber offers over 500 seminars each year, and in addition, masters courses and other professional qualifications. There are also conferences, presentation events and field trips. The Chamber is commissioned by the federal state to be the competent authority with respect to more than 50 laws, regulations and programmes.
In addition, the Chamber is itself a training authority. Over twenty trainees come each year to learn the basics of seven professional qualifications.
The organisation:
In the Chamber of Agriculture, honorary, elected representatives of professions and full-time professionals work closely together. The highest decision-making body of the Chamber is the Chamber Assembly. It is reconstituted every six years.
Two-thirds of the total of 168 honorary members are agricultural entrepreneurs and the rest are employed in agriculture and forestry. Every three years, they elect a president and the members of the board.
The finances:
The Chamber of Agriculture is financed through charges and other incomes (41 %), income from the Chamber contribution from enterprises required to pay this (17 %) and payments from the federal state of Lower Saxony (42 %). The total budget of the Chamber of Agriculture (incl. LUFA Nord-West) amounts to about 154 million euros.
(Based on budgetary plan for 2009)
The Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a public, self-administrating organisation with 72.250 member companies(as of 31.12.2009). Membership is compulsory for regional trade and industrial enterprises. This allows the Potsdam Chamber to represent regional business interests across all sectors. It supports and promotes local businesses and helps them access international markets. The Potsdam Chamber is a source of information on the regional economy, business locations, grants, training and more. If you are looking to import, export, co-operate with local companies or invest in the region, the Chamber can create contacts with suitable business partners and support you with information and advice. Foreign companies are welcome to publish business requests in the Chamber's international trade bulletin.
Latvia University of Agriculture provides education, research, extension and continuing studies in agriculture, food industry and forestry. LLU is the only higher agricultural education establishment in Latvia and it aims to: promote intellectual potential for rural development in agriculture; encourage young people to acquire higher academic and professional education; develop research; contribute to the cultural development; study, maintain and perfect the gained experience from the Latvian people and pass it over to the future generations.
“Environmental Projects” Ltd is a state enterprise supervised by the Ministry of the Environment of the Republic of Latvia. “Environmental Projects” attracts resources from different organizations and financial institutions to solve the environmental problems that are important to Latvia.
Everything accomplished can relatively be divided into five groups:
Water management maintenance projects;
Waste management projects;
Power industry projects;
Informative and educating projects for public and specialists;
Different economical and constructional projects.
LEI's mission is to be the highest qualification expert on the issues of engineering, hydrology, metrology, nuclear safety, enviroment protection and economy, related to Lithuanian energy.
The Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture (LIA) is a state research institution, whose main mission is to carry out research in the field of agronomy, biology, agro-ecology and other multidisciplinary-related areas, and plant breeding. The activities also encompass experimental development and dissemination in agricultural sector. Besides its head-office in Dotnuva, LIA is composed of 2 branches, 6 experimental stations and the Agrochemical Research Centre, located in the most representative soil and climate regions of Lithuania.
The Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology (ECAT-Lithuania) was founded as a non-governmental organisation in 1997 by the European Commission in co-operation with the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment.
The goal of ECAT-Lithuania is to support, promote and strengthen the environmental activities in Lithuanian municipalities and local communities.
The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and a national centre of expertise on land-based resources.
The main mission of BEEC is to introduce and promote a widely understood idea of distributed co-generation, understood as simultaneous small and medium scale production of thermal energy and electricity from renewable energy sources, mainly biomass, but also by converting water, solar and wind energy.
POMCERT was created to stimulate work on research, consulting and innovation programs within field of environmental protection in Pomeranian Region. This is being done through the integration of experts in a wide range of environmental science as well as environmental technology and engineering.
The Koszalin University of Technology/Politechnika Koszalińska is the only technical university in the region of Central Pomerania in Poland. This region is part of “the green lungs” of Poland. There are numerous forests with picturesque lakes in an area of developing tourism, agriculture, food processing, and electronics industries. The Koszalin University of Technology provides academic and technical education and is a leader in research in the disciplines generally connected with the region’s areas of development.
Social scientist with a specialization in Political European Studies, the European Common Agricultural Policy, Rural Development and European Regional and Structural Policy. He has started working at at the EU Affairs Department of the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) in January 2008.
If you feel FNR could contribute to your own vision of transnational R&D cooperation, please do not hesitate to contact me.
4Biomass (programme CENTRAL EUROPE) will foster sustainable usage of bioenergy throughout CE via turning know-how into show-how. Dissemination of best practices/technologies, Analysis of biomass potential (& trade), stakeholder dialogue and a Transnational Action Plan as well as a Transnational Forum will help design a transnational coordinated bioenergy policy. The Network 4Biomass supports international cooperation beyond the partnership of bioenergy expert agencies in D,A,CZ,HU,I,P,SK,Sl.
Responsible for international cooperation and the project managing of the Bioenergy Promotion project for the Private Forest Center in Estonia. This includes national contact point activities on both national and international level. Read more about our activities within the project here: http://www.eramets.ee/?op=body&id=40
The Bioenergy Promotion (BP) project helps in the Estonian case private forest owners (associations) to use unused forest resources. Please see pdf for further information. Our activities are also documented here: http://www.eramets.ee/?op=body&id=40
Senior Foresry Officer at the Chamber of Agriculture Lower Saxony, responsible for projects BIOENERGY PROMOTION and ECOREGION. In BIOENERGY PROMOTION we are cooperating with the Rotenburg (Wümme) County Administration as project region in WP 4 (see http://www.lk-row.de/)
LSFRI Silava is one of the leading forest research institutions in Baltic region. The main tasks performed by LSFRI Silava are research on a sustainable production of forest resources for wood industries and bioenergy. LSFRI Silava is a member of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations and the European Forest Institute. The institute also participates in the OSCAR and CAR-ES networks.
The Finnish Aino Martikainen works at EU Affairs Department of the Agency for Renewable Resources in Gülzow, Germany and is responsible for two projects, Bioenergy Promotion and EUBIONET 3. Her backround are studies of Environmental Sciences at the University of Lüneburg and at the University of Tartu in Estonia.
NordForsk is a Nordic research board with responsibility for cooperation on research and researcher training in the Nordic region. The organisation focuses on research areas in which the Nordic countries are international leaders, and promotes research and researcher training of high international calibre.
• Providing cross cultural competence and business contacts for Russian and Japanese market
• Consulting for market entry, market development for Russian and Japanese forest-, wood- and bioenergy market
• Trading with wood products
Mats have a PhD in nuclear physics. He has six years of experience from working for NVE (Norwegian National Energy Agency), responsible for renewable energy, business development within energy technology and international cooperation. Founded KanEnergi Swden AB in 1997 and works primarily in international projects, but also in analyses and strategy developments.
KanEnergi offers expertise within the fields of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies. Some of our most popular services are:
· Conceptual and feasibility studies
· Project development and management
· Integrated Energy Design (IED) for low energy buildings
· Energy management
· Resource and market analysis
· Information services
BSc energy technology and 15 years experience in the bioenergy field with assignments such as studies, technology and business development, project development and management.
Works both local/regional, national and international and has a vast network all over Europe.
Finnish Pelletenergy Association - Suomen Pellettienergiayhdistys ry. - is the national umbrella for the Finnish pelletenergy sector, representing both producers of pellets as well as manufacturers of heating appliances. In addition there are sales companies, R&D organisations etc as members.
GRANDEG is the largest manufacturer of pellet boilers in Baltic reagion. 16years of experience allow to provide quality pellet boilers, technology that is easy to operate and maintain.
Our group work on:
fuel pretreatment and thermal treatment such as
gasifcation
pyrolysis
combustion
contact:
Weihong Yang, PhD, Docent
Division of Energy and Furnace Technology
Department of Material Science and Engineering
Royal Institute of technology
Brinvellvägen 23, 10044 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 790 8402, Fax: +46 8 20 76 81, Email: weihong@kth.se
The Bioenergy group at Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku, was started in March 2009.
The aim of our research is to generate insight and solutions that can enhance utilization of renewable energy production methods. The focus of our research is microbial metabolism in the context of biological energy production. We construct model systems and study fundamental questions of importance for fermentative and phototrophic production of volatile fuels (H2 and hydrocarbons).
Dan Asplund has a long professional working backround at VTT and Jyväskylä Innovation ltd in Finland as a leader of bioenergy sectors since the year 1971.Furthermore he has acted as a representative of many national and international energy associations like a member of FINBIOs Board since the year 1994 and a member of board since 1995 and as president and a vice-president of AEBIOM since the year 2002 to 2006.He has been chaiman of several international conferences organised by FINBIO.
Benet coordinates the co-operation of several expert organisations and management of joint projects.Benet is marketing the services of member organisations under the brand name BENET.Participation in project excecution.BENET is a one stop shop of all expert services needed from the forest or fields to distribution of energy.
Strategy development
Engineering
Project managemnent
Project development
Advisory services
Training services
Consultant on the production, transport, internal handling and quality of wood fuels (wood chips, hogfuel, wood pellets and briquettes, firewood). Teacher of courses on the wood fuel supply chain: "From forest to gate" and "From gate to grate", which have been held more than 50 times in Ireland, Scotland and Holland. Organisator of field trials with advanced equipment, adapting existing methods to local circumstances. Presenting papers at national and international conferences and workshops
Agriculture - Farming Systems, Technology and Product Quality
Our department is a foundation for research and education on how the entire farming system, including its technology, interacts and affects product quality, and how it affects the environment.
Both traditional and new crops, such as fibre and energy crops, are important features of the activity.
All the technological activities of the faculty for agricultural and horticultural production are found in the area.
Running a number of international projects on bioenergy. The main interests is sustainable bioenergy production in agricultural lands (including seminatural sites)
FUWI company from over 20 years is dealing with central heating boilers and biomass production. Based on our long standing experience with simultaneous using the latest technical achievements, constantly we are raising the quality of our products trying to fulfill expecting our customers, above all in terms of the costeffectiveness of exploitation as well as functionalities. There are ecofriendly heating units in broad offer of our products, both castiron and steel, adapted for burning PELLETS.
Knute Foss is working as CEO in ConBio AS which is a small business development company within the renewable energy sector with focus on Bio Energy as well as CDM & JI project development
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) is an international finance institution established by the Nordic countries. NEFCO provides finance for environmental projects in NW Russia, Belarus and Ukraine including projects for the production and utilisation og bio-fuels. Please visit our website for further information.
The approach of RUBIRES (CENTRAL EUROPE Programme) is to develop and implement strategies for a higher use of renewable resources and therefore gain added value to support the development of rural areas in a sustainable way. New tools & methods have to be developed and implemented. Dissemination of best practices/technologies; analysis of biomass potential in partner regions from D,AT,I,SL,HU; stakeholder dialogue; material flow, land-use & value added chain management are fields of RUBIRES.
The company "APDAILA" was founded in 1991. February 18. The company is located in the village Stunguriai, ViduklÄ, Raseiniai district. Its principal activities are eco-friendly fuel - RUF wood sawdust briquette production.
Our clients we are able to offer environmentally clean fuel - sawdust briquettes. Production is packed in 10 kg bags.
Fields of investigation:
- Analysis and modeling of towns energy consumption, heat supply and distribution from district heating companies using renewable energy sources,
- Economic evaluations of energy conservation measures,
- Domestic and renewable energy resources, economic modeling, prices and costs analysis.
Statistician and responsible for official statistics at the Swedish Forest Agency. Work at the Analysis division.
MSc in mathematics, statistics and business economics.
Runnig a project intending to get better and more reliable statistics on the use of bioenergy from forest (wood fuel).
Hope to get in touch with people with experiences in measuring volumes etc. for energy purposes.
Gasek Oy manufactures and markets direct gasifiers for CHP-plants which produce green electricity and heat out of wood chips. The total power range of our gasifier is 150 kW. The high efficient direct gasifier by Gasek Oy produces clean gas by an advanced GasekTM process technology. It offers a unique solution e.g. to produce both green electricity and heat out of wood chips and other woody material. The range of our gasifier is 150 kW which is ideal for decentralized and local energy needs.