Workshop Biorefuture 2009

Committee of the Regions in Brussels.

30th March 2009 was the date for BioreFuture 2009, the second annual European biorefinery workshop. It was hosted by two EU-funded projects, Biorefinery Euroview (http://www.biorefinery-euroview.eu) and Biopol (http://www.biorefinery.nl/biopol) at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels.

More than 100 participants attended from 15 countries, representing industry, government and academia. The objectives of the workshop were the following:

To disseminate new information resulting from these two Europe-wide projects, which are concluding in April 2009.
To engage the wider European biorefinery community on the technical, political and industrial issues surrounding biorefinery developments, in order to continue the interactive debate with stakeholders which was begun at BioreFuture 2008.

Please find below the programme, presentations and report of the event:

09.30 Registration

09.50 Welcome by the coordinators of Biopol and Biorefinery Euroview
E. Annevelink (Wageningen UR), C. Luguel (IAR Cluster)

10.00 Address from the European Commission
P. Venturi (European Commission DG Research)

10.15 Introduction to the two projects (Biorefinery Euroview and Biopol) and headline conclusions
E. Annevelink (Wageningen UR), C. Luguel (IAR Cluster)

10.45 Defining biorefineries and different concepts
W. Soetaert (Ghent University)

Parallel Discussion Session

Biorefinery Sustainability issues

M. Rolgulska (IPiEO)

11. 15 Coffee break

11.45 Mapping of EU biorefinery activities
V. Steinmetz (CARINNA), H. Reith (ECN)

12.15 Consumer landscape
K. Menrad (Univ. Weihenstephan)

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Lignocellulosic Biorefinery
L. Fagernas (VTT)

14.15 Technical description of green and whole crops Biorefinery
B. Kamm (BIOPOS)

14.45 Propects of furthers demonstration
K. Meesters (Wageningen UR)

15.15 Coffee Break