Current projects

Sustainability assessment

BioZ – Biobased innovations from Zeitz and Central Germany

• Research monitoring of the sustainability assessment for the BioZ project (website)
• Manual: Sustainability for beginners (available for download here)
• Zertifux: Finding the right certificate (in development)
• Regular workshops for partners and interested parties (dates and further information here)

GreenFeed – Green Feedstock for a Sustainable Chemistry

• Aim: development of scenarios for the defossilisation of the chemical industry
• Regular events and workshops on the technical, ecological and economic evaluation of biopolymers (website)

Innofuels –  Innovative process chains for wood fuels

• Networking, creation and further development of framework conditions for the run-up of electricity-based fuels and advanced biofuels; innovation focus on sustainability
• Biannual biofuel expert discussions, e.g. on the topic of "Eligibility and balancing of electricity-based fuels" (website)

Policy analysis

SUSTRACK 

• Identification of political priorities and development of recommendations for action to shape a sustainable circular bioeconomy (website)
• Annual conferences and regular events (dates and further information here)

TransBio –  Transfer working group for bioenergy in the energy system of the future

• Analysis of recommendations for action from numerous previous projects on the post-EEG operation of bioenergy plants
• BeFuture platform for knowledge transfer and annual conferences and events (further information here)

Sustainability certification

TransBiB –  National transfer and acceleration network for the industrial bioeconomy

• Sub-project: Stakeholder dialogue on meta-certification and development of training courses with a focus on bio-based resources
• Regular workshops for stakeholders (further information will follow shortly, if interested please sign up here) 

HARMONITOR –  Harmonisation and monitoring platform for certification schemes and labels to advance the sustainability of biobased systems 

• Development of an EU-wide monitoring system for sustainability certification schemes
• Regular workshops with NGOs, certification systems and bodies as well as political decision-makers (up-to-date project information can be found here)