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3rd General meeting

21-23 November 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The 3rd SMIBIO project meeting was held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on 21- 23 November 2016. On the first two days the project meeting was held in Fundacion ArgenINTA (INTA) premises. On 23 November an open Workshop on “Small-scale Biorefineries for Rural Development in Latin America and Europe” was held in Centro Cultural de la Ciencia (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

The meeting was organized and started with welcome words by Jorge Hilbert (INTA), followed by an Introduction on the Potential of Argentina on renewable energy, biorefinery activities and the main activities at INTA related to these topics.

SMIBIO project coordinator Francisco Gírio reviewed the SMIBIO project objectives and summarized the progresses achieved. Then the workplan of the project proposal was presented and the main achievements that are expected in the near future were highlighted.

The meeting proceeded with each partner representative presenting the Biorefinery Conceptual Design chosen for their regions. Presentations about the current status of the biorefinery concept were given by Francisco Gírio (LNEG, Portugal), Ana Susmozas (CIEMAT, Spain), German Aroca (PUCV, Chile), Alfredo Martinez (UNAM, Mexico), Ingo Ball (WIP, Germany) and Carlos Cardona (UNC, Colombia).

All case study presentations are currently project internal documents and available on the project intranet.

On the second day of the meeting discussions about organisation details continued. A decision was made concerning the simulation processes. Those will be organised by simulation team which is made up from participants from LNEG, CIEMAT, UNAM and PUCV.

At the end of the meeting it was decided that the next project meeting will be held in in Cartagena, Colombia (29-30 May 2017), followed by a workshop in Manizales.

 

3rd meeting BUE

 

Front row (from left): J. Hilbert, M. Ballesteros, F. Gírio, F. Carvalheiro, A. Suzmosas

Back row (from left): I. Ball, C. Cardona, J. Quintero, A. Martinez, R. Janssen, J. Neto, G. Aroca

 

 

 

Events

Bioenergy Events

1er Simposio Latinoamericano de Bioeconomía

10 July 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina

http://bioeconomiaeventos.mincyt.gob.ar/inscripcion.php

 

Biofuels and Bioenergy

26-27 August 2019, Vienna, Austria

https://biofuels-bioenergy.expertconferences.org/

 

4th EuCheMS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry

22-25 September 2019, Tarragona, Spain

http://eugsc4.iciq.es/

 

International Conference on Biofuels & Bioenergy: Fuels of the future

23-25 September 2019

http://www.phronesisonline.com/biofuels-conference/

 

Expo Biomasa

24-26 September 2019, Valladolid, Spain

https://www.expobiomasa.com/

 

Biofuels International

22 - 23 October 2019, Brussels, Belgium

https://biofuels-news.com/conference/

 

 

The SMIBIO project is implemented in the framework of ERANet-LAC, a Network of the European Union (EU), Latin America and the Caribbean Countries (CELAC) co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme for Research and technology Development (FP7).

Support is provided by the following national funding organisations:

BMBF/DLR, Germany
COLCIENCIAS, Colombia
CONACYT, Mexico
CONICYT, Chile
FCT, Portugal
MINECO, Spain