Interreg Baltic Sea Region program 2014–2020 project
13 project partners and 4 associated project partners are involved. Lead partner is Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Project is represented by 6 countries (Latvia, Sweden, Estonia, Germany, Finland, Lithuania).
Total budget is 2.55 million EUR, incl. ERDF co-financing 2.00 million EUR, LSFRI "Silava" 55,130 EUR
Baltic ForBio project aims to increase production of renewable energy in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by improving the capacity of public authorities, forest and energy agencies, organizations of forest owners and entrepreneurs, and forest advisory organisations for promoting the harvest and use of logging residues and small trees cut in early thinning. Based on available technologies and research results, the project will develop cost-effective and sustainable harvest methods, decision support tools, guidelines and training programs for harvest of logging residues and small trees. The project will also produce, in close cooperation with key stakeholders, a GIS platform and database for producing spatially explicit estimates of forest biomass potentials, and innovative business models for developing small-scale bioenergy plants in rural area in the BSR.
Planned activities are:
- Mapping of scientific and statistical information regarding use and production of woody biomass derived bioenergy.
- Development of cost-efficient and sustainable harvesting methods.
- Development of calculation methods to estimate logging residue and small tree harvesting costs.
- Construction of functions to calculate logistics costs depending on type of woody biomass harvested and site specific factors.
- Participation in development and test of learning program and decision support tool.
Actualities
- 17.–18.10.2017. First partnership meeting, Uppsala, Sweden.