The Spanish Technological Platform of Biomass - Bioplat - Celebró on December 10 its General Assembly at the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness - Mineco. The Assembly was structured in two blocks, being the first of them dedicated to updating the information and opportunities that exist at the national level and europening of support to the bioenergy sector. To this end, the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness intervened, informing about the results of the 2015 Challenges-Collaboration for R&D projects, in which six bioenergy projects corresponding to the energy challenge were approved. In addition, other opportunities were exposed for R & D & I offered by this ministry, such as the PyME horizon call, aimed at all those small and medium -sized companies that presented a proposal to phase 1 of the Pyme Horizon 2020 instrument in 2014 or 2015 and, which having obtained a score greater than 12 out of 15, had not been financed due to lack of availability of funds.
Along these lines, from CDTI the opportunities for innovative projects in the bioenergy sector contained in various instruments of technological, national and eurOpeos financing were presented. Also from CDTI, the opportunities that exist for the Bioenergy sector in the 2016-2017 work programs of the social challenges of energy and bioeconomy were identified, as well as the JTI industrial private initiative of Bioindustrias, all of them framed in horizon 2020.
Next, from Cieat the intense work that is being developed both in the Eur EurBioenergy (EIBI–EurOPEAN INDUSTRY Bioenergy Initiative) Cieat -Respectively- represent the Spanish sector. In addition, the launch of a new call of the Eranet Bestf-3 (Bioenergy Sustaining The Future 3) was reported, for the financing of innovative projects in Bioenergy that, for the first time, will not only provide financing for companies through CDTI, but also to scientific-non-profit scientific entities, given that the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness will enter to co-finance this.
The second block of contents of the Assembly was inaugurated with an intervention by the Technical Secretariat of BIOPLAT, in which the actions carried out by the Platform that generate added value to the Spanish bioenergy sector included in it were identified, which amounts to 357 entities, half of them companies.
Finally, the first BIOPLAT sector report was presented by the consulting firm in charge of its preparation, Afi (International Financial Analysts), which offers an overview, quantifying the key socioeconomic and environmental parameters of the Spanish bioenergy sector. , both biomass for electrical and thermal generation and for the generation of biofuels for transportation. This report endorses bioenergy as a central element of the new bioeconomy, urging the design of a public policy to support biomass.
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