The European Energy Research Alliance is the largest energy research community in Europe. It is a membership-based, non-profit association and brings together 250 universities and public research centres in 30 countries. EERA's joint research programmes cover the whole range of low-carbon technologies as well as systemic and cross-cutting topics (link).
The overall objective of the EERA Bioenergy Joint Programme is to align pre-competitive research activities at EERA institutes to give a technical-scientific basis to further develop the next generation biofuels routes and to explore the possibilities for joint technology development. The more efficient use of R&D investments that this Joint Programme foresees, contributes to an acceleration of the development of next-generation conversion technologies (link).
A biomass value chain (BVC), also referred to as biomass supply chain (BSC), is characterised by the valorisation of biomass feedstock for the production of bioenergy and innovative bio-based products (link).
Renewable Energy Sources are those renewable resources, which are naturally replaced on a human timescale and are used for obtaining energy. Examples for such resources include sunlight, wind, rain, waves, currents, and geothermal heat (link).
Biomass feedstock is an alternative to finite fossil fuel resources, since it offers most of the benefits for energy and products applications compared to the former (link).
- EERA Bioenergy Joint Programme Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, 2020
- SET-Plan Energy Integrated Roadmap(2014) (link).
- SET-Plan DoI (2015).C(2015) 6317 final. Towards an Integrated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan: Accelerating the European Energy System Transformation
- SET-Plan DoI-Action 8 (Bioenergy and Renewable Fuels) Implementation Plan (2018) (link).
- ETIP Bioenergy SRIA (2015) (link).
- D. K. S. Ng, R. R. Tan, D. C. Y. Foo, M M. El-Halwagi. 2016. Process Design Strategies for Biomass Conversion Systems, ISBN: 978-1-118-69915-7