Sustainable and Innovative European Biogas Environment

The chosen partnerships include 14 organizations in nine countries in the CENTRAL program area. These partners complement each other and have diversified core competencies - good relationships to transnational (national)regional networks, key players and stakeholders and establish a communication and operating environment able to last beyond the project timeframe.

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For more information, contact:SEBE Project Management Team:ICS Internationalisierung Center Steiermark GmbH Körblergasse 117A-8010 GrazTel.: +43 316 601 400Email: info@sebe2013.eu

ItalyResearch Centre on Animal ProductionCorso Garibaldi, 4242100 Reggio Emiliawww.crpa.it

Environment Park S.p.A. - Science & Technology Park for the EnvironmentVia Livorno 6010144 Torinowww.envipark.com

Poland Regional Development Agencyul. Cieszynska 36543-382 Bielsko-Bialawww.arrsa.pl

Central Mining InstitutePlac Gwarków 140-166 Katowicewww.gig.eu

Romania Romanian Association for Promotion of Renewable EnergyBiled Nr. 2000307060 Biled

Slovakia Citizenship Association No GravityOravska 3821 09 Bratislava

Slovenia Scientific research centre Bistra PtujSlovenski trg 6,2250 Ptujwww.bistra.si

Biogas for Europe’s Future

Lead Partner/Project coordination ICS Internationalisierung Center Steiermark GmbH Körblergasse 1178010 Graz, Austriawww.ic-steiermark.at

AustriaEnergiepark Bruck/LeithaFischamender Staße 122460 Bruck an der Leithawww.energiepark.at

Resource Management Agency (RMA)Argentinierstraße 48/2nd Floor1040 Viennawww.rma.at

Czech RepublicÖTGW-RCHS, Österreich-tschechische Gesellschaft, WirtschaftMariánské námestí 6669 02 Znowwjmowww.oetgw-rchs.org

GermanyUniversitaet Stuttgart, Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water quality and Solid Waste ManagementBandtaele 270569 Stuttgartwww.iswa.uni-stuttgart.de

Association of promotion the use of Renewables EnergiesSchützengasse 1601067 Dresdenwww.vee-sachsen.de

HungaryFoundation for Sustainable Environment of South Great PlainMoszkvai krt. 8B6722 Szegedwww.dafka.hu

Partners

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Hence, the project “Sustainable and Innvoative European Biogas Environment” (SEBE) was conceived.The SEBE project provides a well-balanced, holistic and comprehensive approach to the challenge of optimizing and expanding the use of biogas in CENTRAL EUROPE.

It addresses:

coordinating operational biogas frameworks/information on relationships between these frameworks

access to new R&D technologies and concepts for municipalities, SME’s, biogas plant operators

developing human resources in the biogas sector in the CENTRAL program region

biases based on incorrect impressions on the biogas topic

availability of information for the general public as well as concepts for regional municipalities, development agencies, and spatial planning departments

improvement through biogas utilization

The SEBE project also helps the EU to reach its own target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. This objective is the heart of EUs strategy for limiting climate change.

The SEBE project aims at coordinating further development of biogas utilization, technology and transnational competence knowledge center within the CENTRAL EUROPE programme area.

Project overview

The project’s transnational approach establishes a common understanding of possibilities, policies and frameworks (legal, economics, finance, technical, R&D, logistics and human resources) throughout the program area, coordinates these frameworks and research through the Transnational Knowledge Management (TKM) tool, establishes guidelines and a transnational strategy for future education and training on the biogas sector as a whole. In addition, SEBE provides regional development based on consulting and guidelines, selected pilot actions and recommendations on policy developments for stakeholders on the transnational/national/regional level.

SEBE also addresses the training and education suppliers of biogas facilities, operators of biogas facilities, and technical suppliers of biogas equipment, as well as the establishment of Competence Knowledge Centers (CKCs) which will provide expertise and consulting on biogas even after the completion of the project.

In order to cover the entire scope of the biogas issue, the SEBE project will also address the political aspects of cross border biogas opportunities. The Future European Biogas Utilization and Policy Action Plan (FEBAP) will project the specific research findings in the field of legal, economical and logistical as well as financial frameworks available towards the transnational policy and regulatory framework development. This should induce an ongoing transnational coordination process toward alignment of the currently available or developing frameworks, policies, and regulations. This cross-border cooperation, business development and innovation processes will create additional research and cooperation opportunities, future biogas plants, jobs and better education for all people in the Central program region.

Left out in the cold?

Europeans shivered as gas supplies were cut in the dead of winter. Currently, the EU depends on energy imports for 50% of its consumption, a figure that could reach 70% by 2030. Growing energy demand, high costs of supplies and risky suppliers make it quite clear that these dependencies will have tremendous effects on European economies in the near future. Considering the world economic crisis, it becomes imminent that Europe strives to reduce these dependencies in the medium- to long-run.

There is great – and currently undeveloped – potential in decentralized energy production from renewable resources - both, through the usage of biogas as fuel originator and as basic resource for feeding into the available gas grids. Developing these capabilities is key to reducing dependency on imported energy sources and further foster Europe’s leadership position within these key areas of innovation. The availability of established regional gas grids in connection with new biogas -, biogas cleaning technologies and - methodologies are key elements of combining current infrastructure with new application fields to further improve profitability of current biogas plants.

However, different operating environments (legal, economical and logistical, technical), shortages on qualified and specialized human resources (planning, operation, support and maintenance) as well as several regional factors (e.g. available resources, logistics, or failed biogas plants from past projects) throughout the programme area form a challenging environment to work in and require a well-coordinated, -communicated and politically supported framework for the development of the entire territory.

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