14 Mar 2017 - 15 Mar 2017

Bioeconomy parliament

Welcome to join the world's first bioeconomy-parliament held in Örnsköldsvik on the 14th and 15th of March 2017. 

Bioeconomy Parliament Programme

Moderator: Anna Säfvestad-Albinsson

 

14th of March

10.30 Registration

11.00 Welcome to Örnsköldsvik

Welcome to bioeconomy parliament

The role of forest and Bioeconomy for the climate and EU’s future trade and industry

What is needed to realise the full potential of the Swedish bioeconomy?

12.10 LUNCH

13.00 Challenge 1: The need of test beds and demonstration plants

Value chain: Forest raw material- sugar platform – NPG – end product

Presentations

Panel

15.30 COFFEE

16.00 Challenge 2: The need of green demand

Value chain: Upscaling, a large-scale modern biorefinery with a wide range of products – textile fibres and main product, based on Swedish forest raw material and sulphite technology

Presentations

Panel

17.30 Summary of the day

19.00 Dinner and entertainment

 

15th of March

08.30 The role of small companies in large-scale value chains – how to combine large scale and niches with entrepreneurship and innovations

Presentations

Panel

09.30 COFFEE

10.00 Challenge 3: The need for new rules and instruments which benefit bioeconomy

Value chain: Liquefaction of lignin into hydrocarbon to become biofuels and chemical products

Presentation

Panel

12.00 LUNCH

13.00 Closing speech

14.00 Possibility to visit biorefineries