The Conference program offered the opportunity to the international audience to learn about the goals of the BIO4ECO project, the actions involved in it and the main outcomes resulting from its implementation, as well as to engage in the live discussions.
If you didn't attend to the Conference, or may you want to review some of the contents, the Conference was recorded and divided in five sessions that are available to watch online:
- Welcome BIO4ECO Final Conference
- Block 01 BIO4ECO Final Conference
- Block 02 BIO4ECO Final Conference
- Block 03 BIO4ECO Final Conference
- What brought us BIO4ECO
Conference Presentations
Below, you can find a repository of the Conference speakers and presentations:
State of play of interregional cooperation - Verena Priem, Representative of the Joint Secretariat of Interreg Europe program
BLOCK 1 - Perspectives of the use of bioenergy in different regions of Europe
1.1. New perspectives of the Strategy to promote the energy use of forest and agricultural biomass in Catalonia - Oriol Anson, General Director of Forest Ecosystems and Landscape Management, Government of Catalonia
1.2. Biomass from forests and its utilization as renewable energy source in Bulgaria - Georgy Kostov, Advisor to the Minister of agriculture, food and forestry
1.4. Use of wood biomass for energy production in France. Energy & Climate local plans - Rémi Chabriat, Director French Environment and Energy Management Agency
1.5. Overview of the implementation of ROP 2014-2020, PI 3.1B. in Romania - Adriana Muresan, RDA Centru Director of the Programing and Regional Policies Directorate
1.6. Result oriented and sustainable resource management in forestry - Aiga Grasmane, Latvian Forest Owners Association, Executive Director
1.7. Bionergy in North Karelia, Finland - Sari Pitkänen, Forest and Climate Expert, Regional Council of North Karelia
BLOCK 2 - Towards to new bioenergy policies and uses, conferences.
2.1. Forest Biomass and EU policies - Harald Mauser, European Forest Institute in Brussels as Liaison Officer
2.2. Policy developments with impact on biomass use in the European Union. - Alicja Kacprzak, Forestry Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
2.3. EU Green Deal: challenges and opportunities for the bioenergy sector - Giulia Cancian, Policy Director of Bioenergy Europe
2.4. Bioenergy by-product and game changer - Christoph Pfemeter, General Manager of the at the Austrian Biomass Association (ABA)
2.5. The role of biofuel in the post-pandemic era to achieve EU Green Deal goals. - David Chiaramonti, Professor at the Polytechnic of Turin
BLOCK 3 - Eight action plans to improve and increase the use of bioenergy. Project outputs and conclusions
3.1. Development of smart forest bioeconomy in North Karelia - Tiina Hyvärinen, Project Planning Officer, Regional Council of North Karelia
3.2. The BIO4ECO project in Abruzzo: prospects for renewable energy from biomass - Elena Sico, Director of the Agriculture Department
3.3. Results of the BIO4ECO action plan implementation in Centru Region - Ovidia Caba, Regional Development Agency Centru, Director of the Regional Policies Department
3.4. BIO4ECO results: Catalonian action plan implementation - Josep Salvador Blanch, Directorate General of Forest Ecosystems and Landscape Management, Government of Catalonia
3.5. Latvia’s Action plan to promote the use of biomass - Kristīne Sirmā, Latvian Ministry of Agriculture, Head of Sustainable Agriculture Development Division
3.6. Action plan implementation in Bulgaria - Daniela Angelova, Project Leader
