EERA launches Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)

The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)’s Joint Programme on Bioenergy has launched an update of its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2020, which is putting a stronger focus on the sustainability, socioeconomics and public acceptance of bioenergy. The revision of the agenda was accompanied by the creation of a new sub-programme, aimed at facilitating the integration of biomass into the energy mix of a climate-neutral Europe.

The Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2020 of EERA’s Joint Programme on Bioenergy was first published in March 2019 and has attracted considerable attention in the bioenergy community. It is conceived as a guide for policymakers and public administrators at all levels with a particular focus on people designing research and innovation framework programmes and advises on scientific and technological priorities for the European bioenergy sector. 

The agenda was developed by researchers from 42 organisations in 18 countries organised in the EERA Joint Programme, who have expertise in the broadest areas of biomass, from primary resources to conversion processes and end products. It has been addressing the sustainable production of biomass, both land and marine-based, the thermochemical and biochemical processing of biomass into advanced biofuels and bio-based products as well as heating, cooling, power and a combination of those (CHPC) from biomass. The updated version goes one step further and discusses the impact of bioenergy on society and the European economy, leveraging on the creation of a new subprogramme that gathers expertise in these topics.

The updated version puts a stronger focus on topics that go beyond pure technological solutions and can be downloaded here.