EBTP Steering Committee (SC) Meetings - Summary Minutes
19th Steering Committee Meeting - Summary Minutes
Véronique Hervouet summarized recent key developments and events with regard to the European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative since the last SC meeting, including the SET Plan Conference in Stockholm on 20/21 October 2009. Silvia Ferratini (EC, DG Research) provided an update on activities of the SET Plan Steering Committee. The EBTP has been invited to join 2 events on biomass availability (organised by CEUBIOM in cooperation with BEE) on 15/16 April 2010. The timeframe for production of the Strategic Research Agenda was discussed. There will be a stakeholder consultation process following the 3rd Stakeholder Plenary Meeting (SPM3) on April 14, with publication scheduled for the summer of 2010. The programme for SPM3 was confirmed. Biger Kerckow, Secretariat, reported on the BeCoTeps Member States Meeting on 9th February where the outcome of three workshops was discussed. A major KBBE conference is planned for 14th September 2010. Details will be added to the EBTP website when available.
18th Steering Committee Meeting - Summary Minutes
The 18th Steering Committee meeting was hosted by Europabio in Brussels on 14th October 2009, and attended by 27 people, including Steering Committee members, WG chairs, EBTP Secretariat and representatives of the European Commission.
The meeting opened with a roundtable review
of recent events and relevant information on biofuels R&D and policy
issues, and key demonstration and pilot activities in the EU, Member States.
New SC Member Edgar Gnansonou made a short
presentation on biofuels activities at EPFL, including the Roundtable
on Sustainable Biofuels. Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, EU Director of
the University of Cambridge Programme
for Sustainability Leadership, also
provided a short presentation on sustainability initiatives.
SC members were updated on the EBTP contribution to the European
Industrial Bioenergy Initiative (EIBI) including the EC workshop with Member State
representatives on the 26 June, EC workshop on “Eligibility and
Project Selection Criteria” on the 25th September, as well as the
SET Plan Conference in Stockholm 21/22 October.
Working Group Chairs provided an update
on their activities, particularly the initial work on the update of the
SRA/SDD and the establishment of an Algae Task Force, and ongoing R&D&D
prioritisation activities.
A presentation “European Research Infrastructure – EC activities” was made by Brigitte Weiss (EC) and the potential EBTP contribution to this topic was discussed.
A short presentation was made on the redeveloped EBTP website, launched in October 2009.
It was agreed to
hold the 3rd Stakeholder Plenary Meeting in Brussels on 14th April 2010.
The 18th SC meeting concluded with a discussion of ongoing cooperation between EBTP and other relevant organisations, including participation in the ETP Leaders Seminar on 13th October 2009, BEcoTeps workshops October / November, EraNet Bioenergy, Biomass panel /AEBIOM on Otcober 1, 2010 and the Zero Emission Platform (ZEP) among others.
17th Steering Committee Meeting - Summary Minutes
The 17th Steering Committee meeting took place at European Forestry House, Brussels on 18th June 2009, and was attended by 18 Steering Committee members, 5 representatives of the European Commission, 2 observers from Bellona and 3 members of the Secretariat.
The following new Members gave presentations on their activities relating to biofuels R&D&D: Frederic Hauge (Bellona), Sandrine Dixson-Declève (International Sustainable Energy Exchange) and Christian Dumas (Airbus). Eduardo Romero Palazón (Repsol YPF), new SC Member, and Béatrice Perrier-Maurer (Toyota Europe), new Vice-Chair of WG5, were also welcomed.
An update on recent developments in the EBTP contribution to proposals for a European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative were given by Markku Karlsson and Harri Turpeinen, in preparation for the EIBI wokshop with Member State representatives on 26 June 2009. The presentations were followed by extensive discussion.
Preparations were discussed for an update of the EBTP SRA/SDD. An Algae Task Force was initiated to cover recent R&D&D in algae biofuels.
Véronique Hervouet reported briefly on the meeting with the Coordination Group of the Zero Emission Technology Platform (ZEP) on 17 June 2009, which she attended together with Birger Kerckow. Three SC members of the EBTP are also active in the ZEP (Olivier Appert, Martha Heitzmann, Frederic Hauge) enusring the flow of information between the platforms.
16th Steering Commitee Meeting - Summary Minutes
The 16th Steering Committee meeting took place at European Forestry House, Brussels on 19th March 2009, and was attended by 14 Steering Committee members and WG Chairs, 2 representatives of the European Commission, 2 observers from the Forestry Technology Platform, and 4 members of the Secretariat.
Luis Cabra (Repsol), the first Chair of the EBTP SC, and Wolfgang Steiger (VW) formerly resigned from the SC due to work commitments. They were warmly thanked them for their great contribution to the EBTP.
Feedback was provided on the Second Stakeholder Plenary Meeting, including results of the participant questionnaire which were generally very positive.
Wolfgang Steiger (VW) reported briefly on the 1st Forum meeting of the
FREIGHTVISION Project
. Ingvar Landälv reported on the Swedish call for biofuel
projects. Harri Turpeinen (Neste Oil) introduced the European
Institute of Innovation and
Technology (EIT). Véronique Hervouet (Chair)
reported on the World Biofuels
Markets Conference, 16-18 March in Brussels.
Raffaello Garofalo (EBB) reported on the rapidly increasing attention being
given to biofuels from algae.
Anders Röj mentioned the International Biofuels Standardisation Conference.
A discussion took place on the proposals for a European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative, including input from EC representatives on forthcoming workshops involving the SET Plan Steering Group, which includes reporesentatives from the Members States responsible for energy innovation and investment.
An update was given on the current composition and activities of the EBTP Working Groups.
Wolfgang Steiger (VW) presented the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council.
Birger Kerckow (FNR, Secretariat) introduced the ERA Net bioenergy workshop, 31st March 2009 in Dublin, focusing on pre-treatment R&D for biofuels production. The possibilities for ERA Net cooperation were discussed. A Presentation of the ETP joint project: StarColibri was made by Johan Elvnert from the Forest based Technology Platform.