On 3 July 2018, ENERGY BARGE was presented at the ETIP (European Technology and Innovation Platform) Bioenergy workshop in Novi Sad, Serbia, on the subject Perspectives of biomass trade in the Danube region. The workshop was organised by the Central European Initiative in cooperaiton with SERBIO, the Serbian Biomass Association, in the framework of the 3rd South East European Conference on Sustainable Development of ENERGY, Water and Environment Systems.

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The ETIP Bioenergy workshop was attended by 20 stakeholders from various fields of expertise, comprising academia (University of Novi Sad, University of Belgrade, University of Zagreb), associations (SERBIO, SDEWES Centre), institutions (Provincial Secretariat for Energy of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina) and businesses (NIS). In total, the conference has brought together 190 researchers, scientists and experts from the field of sustainable development from around 30 countries.

The focus of the workshop was on the activities of ETIP Bioenergy as well as about the potentials biomass value chains in the Danube region, Serbia and Vojvodina. Vojvodina is a highly developed agricultural region in Serbia with additional untapped biomass potentials. The region is trying to attract foreign investors, also through the Vojvodina Investment Promotion Agency. There is a growing interest for opportunities deriving from valorisation of sustainable biomass, particularly at policy level.

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Thies Fellenberg from the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) outlined the envisaged main outputs of the ENERGY BARGE project, which aim to foster collaborations of market actors from the logistics and biomass/bioenergy sectors within the region and to support sustainable biomass mobilisation via the Danube.

Please see the ETIP Bioenergy website for further information and the presentations of the workshop.