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

2. 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”.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

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

7. 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