The Bioenergy Promotion project will promote the development of a sustainable production of and commercialization of biomass in the Baltic Sea Region. The project started in January 2009 and will last for three years. The Swedish Energy Agency coordinates the project, which is a collaboration between 34 participating partners from ten countries around the Baltic Sea: Belarus; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Latvia; Lithuania; Norway; Poland and Sweden. The initiative for the Bioenergy Promotion Project initially came from the Baltic 21 secretariat. The project is part-financed from the EU Baltic Sea Region Programme, with a budget of about 5 million Euros. Use the tabs below to explore the five work packages that make up the Bioenergy Promotion project.
The project aims to strengthen the development towards a sustainable, competitive and territorially integrated Baltic Sea Region in the field of sustainable use of bioenergy. The project is intended to serve as a major Baltic Sea Region-wide platform for:
The work done in WP 1 – Management, is assuring the co-ordination of the project in all its elements - administrative, financial and operational. A high quality project management is necessary for the good development of the project.
To have a successful project, it is vital that communication is well managed and therefore it is important that the WP2 - Information dissemination is part of the project. One of the aims is to ensure fluent internal and external communication for the project partners and key actors to reach project goals.
Work Package 3 (Policy) addresses trans-national, national, regional and local policy frameworks and promotional policies supporting sustainable bio-energy use, facilitates capacity building for public decision-makers and supports the formulation and implementation of sustainable bio-energy strategies, action plans and related policy measures.
Bioenergy-regions will be established in each country to serve as “testing grounds” for bioenergy promotion. The biomass potential will be assessed, bioenergy related business and industry analysed, new pilot projects initiated, strategic management plans developed, and a regional network point will be established.
Isn’t it the possibility to make business that makes the bioenergy market go round? There are many examples of good practice in terms of business cooperation between the BSR countries today, but there still exist a huge, unutilized potential for increased business opportunities, which WP5 Business aims to investigate and promote.
Project news
The report "Mapping The Baltic Sea Region on Developments – compilation of questionnaires" from Task 5.1 are now released here on the website.
The second newsletter for the project and the first newsletter for 2010 is now released and you can find it on the website
The summary report from Task 4.4, Business and industry analysis can now be downloaded from the website. The main purpose of the business and industry analysis was to evaluate overall situation in the different bioenergy sectors in the regions and by the partners involved in Task 4.4. Such evaluation include collection and analysis of data and information about biomass resources in different branches of economy and main actors in the BE sector – biomass or biofuels producers and consumers, and organizations providing supporting services.
The first international Bioenergy in the Renewable Energy Action Plans - Policy Dialogue in Baltic Sea Region conference was held in Helsinki, Finland on 26th - 27th of November 2009. The conference was part of the Baltic Sea Region Bioenergy Promotion project.
European Regional Development Fund and European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument
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