Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ETIP-B2022-2025 (EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION PLATFORM BIOENERGY - SUPPORT OF RENEWABLE FUELS AND ADVANCED BIOENERGY STAKEHOLDERS 2022-2025)
Reporting period: 2022-06-01 to 2023-11-30
The European Technology and Innovation Platform Bioenergy - Support of Renewable Fuels and Advanced Bioenergy Stakeholders 2022-2025 (ETIP-B2022-2025) project aims at triggering collaborative efforts of stakeholders from research to innovation to implementation in the field of renewable fuels and bioenergy. The project will support and empower stakeholders´ contributions to the Green Deal and the Strategic Energy Technology (SET)-Plan.
The European Technology and Innovation Platform Bioenergy (ETIP Bioenergy) is based on voluntary engagement of its members from industry and academia. The platform aims to actively engage with stakeholders and civil society, link their needs to policy making of the European Union and Member States, and to provide advice to industry. The ETIP-B2022-2025 project´s objective is to support the platform in this task.
To achieve these objectives, the project will facilitate Steering Committee and Working Group meetings for ETIP Bioenergy, provide information on research and innovation activities, related technologies and policies on the ETIP Bioenergy website, engage with stakeholders from all involved sectors for information exchange and to provide a basis for ETIP Bioenergy documents, form citizen´s panels to develop citizen´s visions on the role of renewable fuels and bioenergy, and develop policy recommendations. Specific features will include facilitating an update of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), a biofuels and bioenergy innovation challenge (BBIC), a policy workshop, two Stakeholder Plenary Meetings (SPM) and the development of a financial independence plan for ETIP Bioenergy. All activities will be widely communicated through newsletters, social media postings and dissemination events.
The European Technology and Innovation Platform Bioenergy (ETIP Bioenergy) is based on voluntary engagement of its members from industry and academia. The platform aims to actively engage with stakeholders and civil society, link their needs to policy making of the European Union and Member States, and to provide advice to industry. The ETIP-B2022-2025 project´s objective is to support the platform in this task.
To achieve these objectives, the project will facilitate Steering Committee and Working Group meetings for ETIP Bioenergy, provide information on research and innovation activities, related technologies and policies on the ETIP Bioenergy website, engage with stakeholders from all involved sectors for information exchange and to provide a basis for ETIP Bioenergy documents, form citizen´s panels to develop citizen´s visions on the role of renewable fuels and bioenergy, and develop policy recommendations. Specific features will include facilitating an update of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), a biofuels and bioenergy innovation challenge (BBIC), a policy workshop, two Stakeholder Plenary Meetings (SPM) and the development of a financial independence plan for ETIP Bioenergy. All activities will be widely communicated through newsletters, social media postings and dissemination events.
Since ETIP-B 2022-2025 is a CSA there are not technical and scientific aspects. Still some important activities and achievements are summarized here. The project supports the functioning of ETIP Bioenergy by facilitating Steering Committee and Working Group meetings and coordinating the preparation of official ETIP Bioenergy documents such as the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). Joint activities with other ETIPs include a position paper on renewable hydrogen, on at least 5% innovative renewables in Renewable Energy Directive revision and on the draft revised National Energy & Climate Plans (NECPs). A Foresight Report for bioenergy was elaborated. One stakeholder plenary meeting (SPM) has already been organised and held. A series of webinars is ongoing to attract existing and additional stakeholders. The first webinar took place in December 2023, it was on BECCS and had more than 60 participants. The ETIP-B website is currently being revised - both layout and content. The project reached out to citizens via citizen panels in 4 countries in which citizen visions for 2050 on bioenergy were generated.
This is not a research project. Key needs for research, development and innovation in the bioenergy and renewable fuels sector can be found in the ETIP Bioenergy SRIA.