Expobiomasa hosted the bioeconomy innovation summit

The European Rural Bioeconomy Network (BioRural) and the Spanish Biomass Association (AVEBIOM) , which is part of it, have managed to bring together 29 bioeconomy projects, capable of mobilizing 144 million euros in innovation actions, in a exceptional meeting during the first day of the Expobiomasa fair.

These 29 projects, in which more than 250 European entities participate , are mobilizing 144 million euros in actions aimed at putting into practice innovations in the biomass sector that will contribute to a greater and faster deployment of bioenergy and the bioeconomy .

Far from becoming a mere exhibition of projects, the event has led to several meetings being scheduled between initiatives to take advantage of detected synergies, share knowledge, complement their actions in the most efficient way and even create new projects.

Daniel García Galindo, head of projects and innovation at AVEBIOM , assures that “the success of this first meeting encourages us to think about new meetings where more collaborations in innovation in biomass, bioenergy and bioeconomy take place in any field, but especially in those that require more push.”

For four hours, and before an attentive audience, they talked about rural bioeconomy and how to adopt innovations, or about energy communities with biomass and how to transfer knowledge to American countries. Small-scale polygeneration and gasification systems and the work of advanced biofuels laboratories have also been presented. There has been talk of bioproducts, sustainable forest management and how to modernize the forest biomass chain.