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SAVE THE DATE 23 November 2020 13.00 – 16.30 (Online Event)

Learn more about the development of a sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the South Baltic Region (SBR)

The final conference aims to increase knowledge transfer to SMEs and build their innovative capacity in relation to the development of a circular and sustainable bioeconomy in the SBR. Based on biological resources within the region, new innovative agro-industrial value-chains will be proposed to attendees through pre-feasibility studies, innovation programmes, business cases, implementation models and much more. The conference will also discuss key drivers for the bioeconomy, such as cascading, circularity and utilization of biological by-products, residuals and waste in the SBR.

The final program will soon be announced and send to all registered attendees and published here on our homepage.

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The working group within the ScanBalt Network addresses topics related to the bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea Region, which are among others the facilitation of the cooperation among companies, regions and clusters. The Working Group does not only give the opportunity to exchange and discuss ideas and problems but also provides the chance to become involved with a wide variety of different professionals that specialise in the field of bioeconomy. This meeting will determine the main actions the Working Group should and will be taking in the future.

Additionally, participants will have the chance to learn about the latest results of the BioBIGG project regarding the legal and regulatory frameworks related to bioeconomy in the South Baltic Area addressing identified needs for change and developed suggestions for enabling frameworks.

The kick-off event will provide the participants with the freedom to share their opinions, suggestions and overall ideas on the assessment of the legal and regulatory frameworks regarding the bioeconomy within the BioBIGG project as well as on the Bioeconomy Working Group within the ScanBalt Network. Let your voice be heard, do not miss your chance to aid in the establishment of the future activities of the Working Group within ScanBalt. Register here

The project BioBIGG uses resources from the European Regional Development Fund.

During our latest BioBIGG conference in Anklam, Germany, we had the opportunity to attend a great tour at the Anklam sugar factory. The factory is an excellent example of a sustainable sugar production, where the whole sugar beet is utilised for production of white sugar and bio ethanol. The production is flexible and can thereby be adjusted to the current marked prices for white sugar and bioethanol.

The byproducts from the main production is utilized in many ways. The beet-pulp or ‘schnitzel’ are used as feed pellets, pressed and sold for silage or directly as fodder. The leftover amount is used in a biogas production at the sugar factories own biogas plant. Both the bio ethanol and bio methane are used and sold as sustainable fuels. The sugar factory’s company policy focuses on economical, sustainable and environmental supply chains – from beet supplier to the end user. 

In 2019 the sugar factory handled approx. 1.4 million tons of sugar beets collected within a 120-day campaign. The sugar beets was processed into approx. 130.000 tons of white sugar, 70.000 m3 of bio ethanol, 25.000 tons of melasse, 20.000 tons of vinasse,  30.000 tons of pellets and 90.000 tons of beet pulp for biogas and animal feed. The sugar beets had a sugar content of 17.9%, whereof approx. 52 % of the sugar content was extracted and processed into white sugar.

Read more about the sugar factory in Anklam here: https://zuckerfabrik-anklam.de/

BioBIGG was represented at the annual event of the Interreg South Baltic Programme. The conference was held on the 24-25 of September at Ostróda, Poland. There were participants from Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. The headline of the annual event was “Let’s share and learn” and the conference was focused on knowledge sharing, networking and future aspects of the South Baltic Programme.

On the first day of the conference, Manuel Gonzalez from the Interreg Programme held an interesting presentation about capitalization on the knowledge gained from Interreg projects and how to communicate the results from the different projects.

On the second day of the conference, there were three parallel workshops. The topics were:

• Post 2020 – Challenges and expectations in the South Baltic Region

A workshop about challenges and expectations of new Interreg projects

• Durability of projects – Long-lasting sustainability of results

A workshop about the durability of Interreg projects and sustainability of the results

• Communication and cooperation – projects’ networking and results

A workshop about capitalization of the projects that discussed some of the points from the capitalization presentation from the day before.

It was a great conference with interesting presentations.

You can read Manuel Gonzalez presentation and papers about capitalization on Interreg projects here