Periodic Reporting for period 3 - BioEcon (New Strategies on Bio-Economy in Poland)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2018-07-01 do 2020-12-31
At the same time, Poland is an active member of the BIOEAST initiative to develop bioeconomy in the macro-region summarized in a Vision paper: (a) Support the sustainable increase of biomass production (b) Underline the need for circular (“zero waste”) processing of available biomass, (c) Support the viability of rural areas.
The BioEcon project aimed to develop, extend and fully unlock the research potential of IUNG in accordance with the new global strategies, trends and changes in national needs through the creation of an excellent international and interdisciplinary department of bioeconomy and systems analysis. The knowledge, experience, developed tools, research programme and collaborations will allow the institute to maintain the new unit in the institute also after the completion of the project. It will closely cooperate with the other departments of the Institute, with the main purpose of regional development in line with knowledge-based bio-economy.
All the above are meant to converge to develop a platform accommodating developed databases and to build a modelling interface able to evaluate alternative bio-based industry pathways at the regional and national level. The final objective is to support decision makers in Poland on efficient and sustainable strategies for the development of bioeconomy. Although comprehensive assessment of biomass potential is the basis for national strategies and roadmaps, extended and sound knowledge of state of the art and innovative bio-based technologies is required to complete the picture. A large number of conversion technologies to bioenergy at various levels of readiness, namely commercial, off-the-self, emerging and under development are available. Scientific advances and technical progress support the idea that biomass conversion through diverse routes to a mono-product (bioenergy) does not optimize utilization of feedstock and consequently of land as a factor of production. Multi-processes and multi-products models optimize the use of biomass. In this context, biogas technologies and cascade biorefineries are already considered the most efficient and innovative technologies to convert biomass and waste to bio-based products.