10 YEARS ERA-NET BIOENERGY – RESEARCH FOR THE AGRI-FORESTRY
SECTOR, BIO-BASED INDUSTRIES, ENERGY CONSUMERS AND FOR SOCIETY
Date: November 11th 2014
Place: Saal 3 B in the Convention Center,
Energy Decentral, Hanover (DE)
CONFERENCE AGENDA
09:00
REGISTRATION / COFFEE
SESSION I
“10 YEARS ERA-NET BIOENERGY “ – STATUS CONFERENCE
09:45
Welcome (Volker Niendieker, Federal Ministry of Food & Agriculture Germany (BMEL))
09:50
Welcome (Kees Kwant, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO))
09:55
10:15
10:45
“Firing up Europe”: support of transnational bioenergy R&D via joint calls (Karen
Görner, Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR))
ERA-NET Bioenergy and HORIZON2020 – synergies (Paul Verhoef, EC, DG Research
G3)
Success stories from the 2nd call: SynClean (Gunther Kolb, Fraunhofer ICT-IMM)
11:05
11:25
11:45
12:05
COFFEE BREAK
Success stories from the 3rd call: CREFF (Nicolas Marron, French National Institute for
Agricultural Research (INRA))
Success stories from the 4th call: FutureBioTec (Thomas Brunner, BIOENERGY2020+
GmbH / BIOS Bioenergiesysteme GmbH)
Launch of 9th joint call (Matté Brijder, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO))
SESSION II
FINAL SEMINAR OF THE JOINT CALL ON SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
OPTIMISED USE OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC RESOURCES AND MID-TERM
SEMINAR OF JOINT CALL ON BIOGAS AND ENERGY CROPS (17 PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS)
AND
12:25
Welcome/Introduction to parallel sessions (Ilmari Absetz, Finnish Funding Agency for
Innovation (TEKES))
12:35
13:15
(14:15
short
Coffee
break)
LUNCH BREAK
Room A:
Forest for multiple needs
of society, including
enhanced productivity
and optimised use of
forest feedstock
16:25
Room B:
Advanced products and
technologies for primary
wood processing and
manu-facturing of wood
& fibre-based products
Room C:
Advanced biofuels and
biorefineries
&
Innovations in biogas
production & energy crops
COFFEE BREAK / POSTER SESSION
SESSION III
FINAL PANEL DISCUSSION: STRATEGIC DIRECTION, SUITABILITY AND
ERA-NETS FOR THE AGRI-FORESTRY SECTOR
USE OF
16:55
17:45
Moderator: Kees Kwant (RvO)
Panelists: Paul Verhoef (EC, DG Research G3), Markku Karlsson (Finnish
Forest Industry Association), Heather McKhann (FACCE JPI), Volker
Niendieker (Federal Ministry of Food & Agriculture Germany, tbc),
Wojciech Nowak (Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland, tbc)
END OF CONFERENCE / COFFEE (UNTIL 18:00)
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