Pre-announcement within the Nordic Top-level Research Initiative: “Sustainable Biofuels”

The Top-level Research Initiative will launch a call for proposals for integrated projects within the sub-programme “Sustainable Biofuels” on the 15th of October 2009.

Only Nordic research projects with strong user involvement in the knowledge creation and diffusion throughout the project cycle will be funded in this call. The rationale is that effective and efficient knowledge creation, adaptation and diffusion takes place as an integrated interaction and collaboration between producers and users of new technologies and systems.

In order to ensure clear relevance for the Nordic countries and the targeted actors the programme will, at least in this first call for proposals, exclusively focus and limit the priority activities as follows:
• feed-stocks: ligno-cellulose based raw material, such as biomass from forests and agriculture including by-products and residues
• end-products: bio-fuels for the transport sector, such as bio-ethanol and gas

The projects in the programme, covering the entire technology chain from feed-stocks to end-products, should address all or specific selected parts of the following:
• bio-ethanol production technologies
• thermal, physiochemical and/or biological gasification of biomass
• new combination technologies of the areas above

The budget for the sub-programme “Sustainable Biofuels” is 30 MNOK over 4 years. All projects are requested to have minimum of 25% own and/or external funding.

The expected deadline for applications is the 15th of December 2009 and project start is estimated to the summer 2010.

For further information, please visit the webpage of the Top-level Research Initiative or contact the programme secretariat:

Mikael Forss
Nordic Energy Research,
mikael.forss@nordicenergy.net
Phone: +358 400 498 497

Emma Petersson
Nordic Energy Research
emma.petersson@nordicenergy.net
Phone:+47 9026 8446