Objective
Enhancing biomass utilization without risking its sustainability is a European energy priority, and can be linked to targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 and 50% by 2050: enhanced energy security and integration with other industrial sectors, such as agriculture, also play a role. Improved use of biofuels and products in advanced biomass conversion units and biorefineries are seen as a key element in achieving this goal. In recent years leading industrial nations have established facilities in which their researchers have addressed the challenges associated with the production of biofuels and the establishment of bio-refineries. There remains fragmentation in terms of access to high-level experimental equipment necessary for achieving significant advances in this field.
The BRISK initiative will integrate networking activities to foster a culture of co-operation between the participants in the project, and the scientific communities benefiting from access to the research infrastructures, with the pursuit of joint research activities, and facilitate transnational access by researchers to one or more infrastructures among those operated by participants in a coordinated way so as to improve the overall services available to the research communities with interests in these fields.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Participants (26)
20500 Abo
B4 7ET Birmingham
8010 Graz
CF24 0DE Cardiff
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
2800 Kgs Lyngby
2628 CN Delft
Participation ended
94128 Pitea
1755 LE Petten
24492 Ponferrada
41092 Sevilla
56100 Pisa
Participation ended
1049 Brussels
00196 Roma
7491 Trondheim
Participation ended
55543 Bad Kreuznach
5232 Villigen Psi
7034 Trondheim
80333 Muenchen
1040 Wien
06100 Ankara
50009 Zaragoza
80138 Napoli
50-370 Wroclaw
8010 Graz
941 28 Pitea