2nd Newsletter, December 2017

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BIOECONOMY is an economy that relies on renewable biological resources (crops, forests, fish, animals and micro-organisms) and their conversion into food, feed, products, materials and energy. Bioeconomy includes agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and pulp and paper production, as well as parts of chemical, biotechnological and energy industries. (EU COMMISSION 2012)

BIO-BASED PRODUCTS are products that are wholly or partly derived from materials of biological origin, excluding materials embedded in geological formations and/or fossilized (EU COMMISSION 2017).

CIRCULAR ECONOMY means closing the currently linear economy in a loop where the value of products, materials and resources is maintained in the economy for as long as possible. Circular economy consist of biological and technical cycles. (EU COMMISSION 2015)

BIO-BASED CIRCULAR ECONOMY or bio circular economy is the circular economy of bio-based materials. I.e. biological resources are managed and used in a way that the value of the materials is maintained at the highest utility in the economy for as long as possible.

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BIOREGIO 2ndInterregional Event 28.-29.11.2017 in Castilla - La Mancha, Spain

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Site visit to Ecoparque of Toledo

BIOREGIO partners and stakeholders learning aboutGood Practices of the Castilla-La Mancha region

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Semester 1Region in focus: Päijät-Häme, FINLANDPartners: Lahti University of Applied Sciences & Päijät-HämeRegional CouncilTheme: Regional model of biological streams

1-6 / 2017

Semester 2 Region in focus: Castilla La Mancha, SPAINPartner: Deputy Regional Ministry of EnvironmentTheme: Biorefinery and highvalue products

7-12 / 2017

Semester 3Region in focus: Central Macedonia, GREECEPartners: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Region of Central MacedoniaTheme: Agricultural waste gasification

1-6 / 2018

Semester 4Region in focus: ROMANIAPartner: National Research and Development institute for Chemistry and Petrochemistry ICECHIM, Calarasi subsidiaryTheme: Developing a circular economy for biological flows

7-12 / 2018

Semester 6Region in focus: Pays de la Loire, FRANCEPartner: Association of the Chambers of Agriculture of the Atlantic AreaTheme: Policy development and action plans

7-12 / 2019

Semester 5Region in focus: Nitra, SLOVAKIAPartner: Slovak University of Agriculture in NitraTheme: Biofuels and agricultural innovations

1-6 / 20192018

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The Spanish BioeconomyStrategyDr. Manuel Lainez, the director of the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) stated that "

". This is also at the core of the BIOREGIO project. Dr. Lainez introduced the main points of the Spanish Bioeconomy Strategy:

production and use of biological resources

The target sectors are food and agriculture, as well as forestry, all limited by water availability

Industrial bioproducts and bioenergy obtained from other sources of biomass

Focus on rural and coastal development through

various uses and services linked to ecosystems

The strategic targets are: generating knowledge,technological organizational and management innovation, social demands, competitiveness of Spanish companies and new economic activities

The Spanish Bioeconomy Observatory fosters the implementation through Annual Action Plans

Social, political and administrative bioeconomy in Spain must be reinforced

Important pillars are to generate know-how capacity in this area and the promotion of public and private collaboration

CLAMBER PlantCLAMBER Plant is a public demonstrative facility based on an

innovative, integrated, modular and flexible biorefinery at the service of companies for process optimization, development of new bioproducts, scale-up experiments (from kilograms to 1 ton of dry matter per day) and training in biotechnology, ensuring full confidentiality.

The type of biomass that can be fed and studied are lignocellulosic biomass (prunings, branches, straw, etc.), sugar or starch biomass (corn, beet, etc.) and wet biodegradable biomass (whey, grape marcs and lees, OFMSW, etc.)

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Lead partner: Contact person: Susanna Vanhamäki

tel: +358 44 708 1516 susanna.vanhamaki@lamk.fi

Castilla-La Mancha Good PracticesBased on the definition of the BIOREGIO Good Practices, following practices have beendetected by the regional stakeholder group in Castilla-La Mancha region. Thesepractices will be defined in detail and sent to the Interreg Europe program for expertassessment:

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Upcoming in Semester 3The 3rd Interregional Event will be held in May 2018 in the region of CentralMa Greece. The theme of the event will be Agricultural waste gasification. Among other activities, a round table discussion concerning policy instruments and site visits to the Good Practices of the region will be organized.

Organic fraction of municipal waste under separatecollection schemes (Biomasa Peninsular, S.A.)Thanks to an e�cient treatment for the municipal organic waste, bio-products with high added value are developed (liquid bio-fertilizers with phytofortifying action or compost enriched with biochar and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria) Reclamation of abandoned olive oil waste

in lagoons by bio-recover strategies(LIFE RE+GROW Project)Regenerating a rural brownfield site by applying different in situ biorecovery strategies for site decontamination and reclaiming the area to grow a green multifunctional infrastructure with educational purposes

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The nutrient cycle is closed by returning the leftovers from mushroom growing back to the fields

Organic waste treatment lines(Castellano Manchegas de Limpie as)A packaging destruction line separating waste and obtaining high quality compost

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of waste by thermochemicalprocesses An active center founded in , which develops projects focused on the recovery of waste by thermochemical processes using microwave technology and the extraction of high value added bioproducts

Approach to biorefinery (ENCE)Production of eucalyptus pulp and renewableenergy using biomass. After thermochemical lignin processing, several potential products are obtained (phenols, aldehydes, aliphatics)

Electrical generation based on the combustionof biomass (ENEM SA)ENEM SA works with an SCR system which reduces NOx emission, at the same time as electricity is generated

E�cient domestic waste management plan(EcoThe biological treatment process produces compost and a biostabilised organic fraction, which can be used for en vironmental regeneration purposes and covering landfills

Up stream unit at the CLAMBER Plant

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iorefinery (CLAMBER)A technogically advanced demonstration scale plantallowing research on innovative bioproducts

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