ScanBalt is a network of bio-technology networks within a meta-region that encompasses Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, northern part of Germany and northwestern part of Russia. ScanBalt is promoting the development of this meta-region in the name of ScanBalt BioRegion, as a globally competitive meta-bioregion.
In the Øresund Region and around the Baltic Sea a wide range of research institutions are already involved in bio-ethanol research. The purpose of the joint initiative of ScanBalt and Øresund Environment Academy is to create a network between academic researchers and industry in the Baltic area and Scandinavia. The network should facilitate the start-up of new projects within research programmes in relation to bio-fuels and specifically bio-ethanol. Hence, a priority within the network will be to attract funding through the creation of project applications on regional, national and EU level.
The project should thus generate two important outcomes:
1) The creation of a network that facilitates the creation of knowledge, research and education at a meta-regional level (ScanBalt region and Scandinavia).
2) The creation of a specific project group that can make applications on relevant calls with focus on bio-fuels (eg. Bio-ethanol).
Key researchers on bio-ethanol was invited by ScanBalt and Øresund Environment Academy to join a core group, which had its first meeting in June 2004. Conclusions from the meeting were presented at the annual ScanBalt Biotech forum in Turku 2004, along with State-of-the-art of research in bio-fuels and bio-ethanol in Scandinavia and the Baltic area. The core group now works as a formalised network named "Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals from Bio-mass -Baltic/Scandinavian network".
Based on the work of the core group, other researchers and industry will be invited to come up with project ideas on bio-ethanol and bio-fuels. The ideas will be processed by the network and the relevant parties will be invited to join a ScanBalt project application.
The following universities and research centres are participating in the project, through representation in the core group:
Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals from Bio-mass -Baltic/Scandinavian network
- BioCentrum, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark – Prof. Birgitte Ahring
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden – Prof. Guido Zacchi
- Department of Technical Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden – Prof. Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdahl
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden – Prof. Lena Gustafsson
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science / Chemcal Reaction Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Assistant Professor Carl Johan Franzén
- Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Latvia – Prof. Galina Telysheva
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Latvia – Prof. Martin Bekers
- Plant Research Department, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark – Senior Research Scientist Anna Belinda Thomsen
- Department of Product Engineering, VTT Biotechnology, Finland – Research Professor Liisa Viikari
- VTT Biotechnology, Finland - Senior Research Scientist Peter Richard
- VTT Biotechnology, Finland - Research Prof. Merja Penttilä
- Department of Forest & Landscape, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark – Prof. Claus Felby
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Finland – Prof. Annele Hatakka
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