BioenNW INTERREG EU funded project Prasanta Kumar Dey Professor of Operations Management Operations and Information Management Group

BioenNW Mission “ To promote wider adoption of local bioenergy in North West Europe and to stimulate the potential for biomass to make a substantial contribution to increasing energy security, reducing carbon emissions and creating employment”.

BioenNW – Core Facts Delivering Local Bioenergy to North West Europe INTERREG IVB NWE project Approved as a strategic initiative in April 2010 for 5 years Total budget: €7,974,128.05 14 partners

BioenNW Partners United Kingdom: Aston University Birmingham City Council Birmingham City University Harper Adams Konduit/Invigour Netherlands: Regio Eindhoven Belgium: EUBIA Cluster TWEED France: Fondaterra Maire Des Mureaux RITTMO Agroenvironment Germany: Energy Hills OREG KIT HI3

BioenNW Observers Belfast City Council (UK) Centre de Recherche Public (LU) South East Regional Authority (IR) Strategy and Innovation Division, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (IR) Organic Waste Systems n.v. (B) Flandersbio vzw (B) University of Stafford (UK) European Regions Research and Innovation Network (EU) Preston City Council (UK) E.ON (UK) Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UK) Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (DE) BiomassEnergie (CH) L.e.e.S.àr.l (LU) Xylowatt (B)

BioenNW Aims Create and operate bioenergy support centres Build project development decision support tools Demonstrate technology at a commercial scale Install new bioenergy schemes

Lessons learned Project management is challenging Good organisations are not always good partners Make your motivations clear Great opportunity to launch further funding Critical success factors – Leadership, trust, social relationship Nobody likes sharing EU projects get noticed