Objective
1) Description of the project objectives
This action aims at providing a communication tool in order to improve the exchange of commercial, technical and strategic information concerning wood energy activity all over Europe.
Before this review, no technical edition was focusing on this sector. The professionals now have a tool to their development at an international level. It is a way to catch ideas from the European market, exchange knowledge to improve the exchanges in the wood energy sector.
2) Description of the work
This 52 pages quarterly professional review contains articles which are written by specialists, experts, promoters (public or private), manufacturers, users from all Europe.
The organisation has been changed recently to improve the efficiency of the work. Thanks to an external Italian partner, the charge of work has been lighten, therefore allowing the ALTENER partners to focus more on the technical content of the revue which is their initial work, therefore, their main task is the supply or writing of articles and validate the technical language of the translations to ensure there is a high quality, whereas ITEBE is responsible for gathering the articles, and is the relay between the ALTENER partners and the Italian partner, himself responsible for translations, page setting, printing and mailing.
The content of the revues is the following:
- New publications, short news, ads, new websites
- 2 portraits of important companies, associations, people
- News
- New products
- Economy
- Politic, strategy (National and European supporting policies)
- Certification, standardisation
- Production and supply of forest wood chips, wood pellets, briquettes, logs, etc
- Innovative projects
- New technologies
- Cogeneration
- Gasification
- Pyrolysis
- Cofiring
- Big size power plant
- Training/education.
The work organisation
Considering the number of partners and the several languages, the organisation is rather complicated. At the beginning, it was quite hard to get translations or articles properly in the requested delays. For this reason, the partners decided altogether the help of an external partner (described before) and the validation of a document called "guideline for articles". The document gives a certain number of rules that aim at:
1- Checking that no information is missing such that the article can be published
2- Giving a certain number of advises concerning the page setting such that the work of the graphic designer is made easier and that the review is homogenous.
Thanks to this tool, the new organisation and the growing experience, the delay between two issues is shorten.
Promotion and diffusion
This revue is used as a promotion tool by all the partners. It is shown at several international conferences linked to wood energy. This way, the number of subscribers can be increased.
The old issues are downloadable on three of the partners' web sites:
- ITEBE: www.itebe.org proposes the revues in the four languages,
- JSP: www.finbioenergy.fi proposes the revue in English,
- CARMEN: www.carmen-ev.de proposes the revue in German,
- ASEB: www.energie-bois.ch proposes the revue in German and French,
- AIEL: www.aiel.cia.it proposes the revue in Italian.
Thanks to this promotion, we can get new readers and catch interest to wood energy at an international level.
3) The expected results
Benefits:
- Democratisation of new clean burning technologies
- Information of 6 000 companies every three months about new developments in the wood energy sector
- Improvement of the offer quality
- Diversification of the product range
- Acceleration of the offer development
Dissemination is the goal of this project: a minimum of 6000 issues of the technical review will be mailed all over the European Union
- 2000 issues in French send to Belgium, Luxembourg, French speaking Switzerland and France
- 2000 issues in German send to Austria, Germany, German speaking Switzerland
- 2000 issues in English send to all the other Northern and Southern European Countries
- 2000 issues in Italian since 2003. We have launched this new version under request of the Italian Wood Energy Association who has convinced us that this was a very important product to help the Italian wood energy market. It was also important to make it in Italian as the targeted people mostly don't speak any language but Italian. This was also the aim of this revue to come and help the wood energy market and we could not refuse to answer such a need.
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