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 33 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
Check out new project results and info about European Commission biomass sustainability report and news from WP 5 Gdansk meeting from the newsletter 3/2010 published on 6th of July. In addition, up-dated information about the project conference, which will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania November 2010 and project nominations can be found from the newsletter.
As we are approaching the half way point of the project period a number of deliverables have already been achieved. Hopefully the excellent progress will continue through out the project. Some of the most important document this far are:
The final report on Task 4.2 - Regional bioenergy potential -, provided by the Chamber of Agriculture Lower Saxony, Germany, is now available.
The objective of WP 3 Policy within the project Bioenergy Promotion is to promote a sustainable production and use of biomass for energy purposes. As a part of WP 3, task 3.1 have been working on the development and formulation of principles and criteria for a sustainable production of bioenergy.
European Regional Development Fund and European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument
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