Star-COLIBRI

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The Star-COLIBRI project (Strategic Research Targets for 2020 – Collaboration Initiative on Biorefineries) is a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for 2 years starting on November 1st 2009. The project involves 5 European Technology Platforms and 5 major European Research organisations.

Star-COLIBRI aims at overcoming fragmentation and promoting cross-fertilization in the area of biorefineries research. The project will support innovations by speeding up and facilitating industrial exploitation of research results in the biorefinery field, as well as promote coordination in the field of future R&D funding and facilitate the creation of Public-Private Partnerships. More information can be found at http://www.star-colibri.eu/

 
Main Objectives

As a response to these challenges around biorefinery research, Star-COLIBRI's main objectives are the following:


Overcome fragmentation and promoting cross-fertilization in the area of biorefineries research

  • Provide a wiki-portal that facilitates information handling and to collect and exchange information between all relevant biorefinery stakeholders
  • Identify large and small high-impact R&D projects of actual relevance in the area of biorefineries
  • Identify gaps and overlaps in ongoing research efforts to make way for a better use of resources

Support innovations by speeding up and facilitating industrial exploitation of research results in the biorefinery field

  • Create critical mass and synergy by initiating and supporting transparent collaborations between on-going biorefinery R&D projects through so-called StarClusters
  • Contribute to the development of European and national policy initiatives, including legislation, standardisation, labelling and certification
  • Create awareness of new research results and technologies and thereby facilitate the exploitation by European industry

Promote coordination in the field of future R&D funding and facilitate the creation of Public-Private Partnerships

  • Enable collaboration between established trans-national research programmes in the area of biorefineries
  • Produce a Vision 2030 Document and a Strategic Research Roadmap for Biorefineries 2020
  • To facilitate the creation of European Public-Private Partnerships as a form of intensified European cooperation

Partners

  • Forest-Based Sector ETP
  • German Biomass Research Centre
  • Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
  • Association Industries et Agro-Ressources
  • Technical Research Centre of Finland
  • Agricultural Engineering and Technologies Manufuture subplatform
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • Biofuels ETP
  • Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe
  • Sustainable Chemistry ETP
  • EuropaBio
  • Plants for the Future ETP
  • European Plant Science Organisation
  • European Confederation of Woodworking Industries