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Thematic Workshops

“Non-food crops for a European bio-based industry and sustainable agriculture”.”

31 January 2012

University of Bologna, ITALY

 

AGENDA

Chairpersons:Melvyn Askew/CENSUS BIO - Myrsini Christou/CRES

8:30 – 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 9:10

Welcome – UNIBO

Andrea Monti, UNIBO

9:10 – 9:30

CROPS2INDUSTRY Project outline

Myrsini Christou, CRES

9:50 – 10:10

4F crops project

Efi Alexopoulou, CRES

10:10 – 10:30

OPTIMA project

Luciano Cosentino, UNICT

10:30 – 10:50

SWEETHANOL project

Denis Picco, CETA

10:50 – 11:10

Selected non-food crops for a sustainable European agriculture

Lorenzo Nissen, UNIBO

11:10 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 -11:50

Breeding molecular genetics technologies and their potential applications in a crop-specific manner to address a wide range of breeding constraints

Dimitra Milioni, AUA

11:50 -12:10

Harvesting – logistics of non-food crops

Luigi Pari, CRA-ING

12:10 – 12:30

Selected bio-based products for a competitive European bio-based industry (focus on fibers)

Krzystof Heller/Przemyslaw Baraniecki, INF&MP

12:30 – 12:50

Selected bio-based products for a competitive European bio-based industry (focus on oils)

Xavier Pages, ITERG

12:50 – 13:50

Economics & socioeconomics of full chain crop to product and best business opportunities at EU27, regional and country levels.

Calliope Panoutsou, ICCEPT

13:50 – 14:10

Lunch break

14:10 – 14:30

Challenges and conflict areas for non-food crop production systems and sustainability standards

Uwe Fritsche, OECO

14:30 – 14:50

Geo-spatial bio-physical impact analysis of the selected non-food crop production systems in EU27

Erwin Schmidt, BOKU

14:50 – 15:10

Identification and prioritization of the most important non-crops to product schemes for a European bio-based industry and sustainable agriculture

Uli Shurr, FZ-Juelich

15:10 – 17:00

Round Table:

Wrap-up of project results

Opportunities for non-food crops, which can be domestically grown in EU27 context, for selected industrial applications

Prioritization of crops-to-products schemes

 

 

 

 


 
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