ScanBalt Campus
Øresund Environment has in cooperation with ScanBalt launched a project on Environmental and Biotechnological Research and Development in the Scandinavian-Baltic Region. The project has its focus on biofuels and the use of lignin as a basis for biofuel.
The purpose of the joint initiative of ScanBalt and Øresund Environment is to create a network between academic researchers and industry in the Baltic area and Scandinavia. The network should facilitate the start-up of new projects within research programmes in relation to bio-fuels and specifically bio-ethanol. Hence, a priority within the network will be to attract funding through the creation of project applications on regional, national and EU level.
The project should thus generate two important outcomes:
1) The creation of a network that facilitates the creation of knowledge, research and education at a meta-regional level (ScanBalt region and Scandinavia).
2) The creation of a specific project group that can make applications on relevant calls with focus on bio-fuels (e.g. Bio-ethanol).
Primary project participants:
ScanBalt is a network of bio-technology networks within a meta-region, that encompasses Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the northern part of Germany and the north-western part of Russia:
- BioCentrum, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark – Prof. Birgitte Ahring.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden – Prof. Guido Zacchi.
- Department of Technical Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden – Prof. Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdahl.
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science / Chemical Reaction Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Assistant Professor Carl Johan Franzén - Prof. Lena Gustafsson
- Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Latvia – Prof. Galina Telysheva.
- Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Latvia, Latvia – Prof. Martin Bekers.
- Department of Product Engineering, VTT Biotechnology, Finland – Research Professor Liisa Viikari.
- VTT Biotechnology, Finland - Senior Research Scientist Peter Richard
- VTT Biotechnology, Finland - Research Prof. Merja Penttilä.
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Finland – Prof. Annele Hatakka.
Related strategic areas and projects:
Bio-ethanol Norol (project)
Øresund Environment has facilitated and financed the creation of the network and seminars on bio-ethanol (see related projects).
