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Senior lecturer and instrumentation expert Fredrik Forsberg, at Luleå University of Technology Geolab in 2022. Photo by courtesy of Fredrik Forsberg.

Bio4Energy Partner LTU Part of ‘Largest Investment in Material Science in Sweden’

A Swedish funder of research in the bio-based sector has announced…
With our warm wishes for a Merry Christmas, as we prepare to exit the year of 2023. Photo by Dreamstime.Dreamstime

Season’s Greetings from Bio4Energy

As the season draws to a close, Bio4Energy wants to wish its…
Bio4Energy Graduate School: New course starts in 2024. Photos by Francesco Gentili and ©AnnaStrom.©AnnaStrom

Bio4Energy Graduate School: Development of Biorefinery Innovations Up Next

Bio4Energy’s core curriculum is contained in the courses of…

Bio4Energy Board Member Receives Prestigious Botany Prize

A member of the Board of Bio4Energy has won a prestigious prize…
Bio4Energy PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in rapid-fire presentation race. Photo by Anna Strom ©2023.AnnaStrom

Biomass Feedstock, PhD Education, Synchrotron Research in Focus at Bio4Energy Event

The recent Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting, drawing together…
A snap from a boreal forest in northern Sweden. Photo by Anna Strom ©2022.©AnnaStrom

New Monies for Research to Bio4Energy Scientists from Swedish National Funders

A number of Bio4Energy research leaders have won funds in this…
The timber we take out of forests should go toward constructing houses and furniture. Biorefinery is based on residues. Photo by Bent Christensen.Umea University

‘Getting Prepared to Have Right Material Base’: Chemistry in Biorefinery in New Report

As economies are moving closer to a substantial fossil fuel…
Economics professor Robert Lundmark says that all three aspects of sustainable development should be taken together when assessing the role of forest in climate change perspective. Photo by courtesy of Robert Lundmark.

Role of Forests in Reining in Climate Change, Producing Energy

When it comes to the role of the forest in a perspective of…
Advanced Biofuels Conference 2023, main banner. Courtesy of Svebio Swedish Bioenergy Association.Svebio

Advanced Biofuels Conference 2023: Bio4Energy in Partnership

Sweden is host to an annual event designed to take the pulse…
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Logistics of Biomass Transport Subject of New European Training

Biomass as an input material for biorefinery needs to be handled…

Events

This lodgepole pine plant has found its way to a mixed forest in mid Sweden. Photo by Anna Strom©2023.©Anna Strom

Processing Biomass for Biofuels, Chemicals, 3 ECTS — Postponed by organiser until autumn 2024

This is a course for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.…
Iliana, Judith, Liang and Santosh in discussion during a research poster session. Photo by Anna Strom ©2023.

Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting

This is where Bio4Energy's researchers and students meet and…

Wood Biology and Biotechnology, 5 ECTS

This is a course for PhD student and postdoctoral researchers.…
Biorefinergy Demo Plant, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference 2024

Welcome to the Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference (NWBC), where…
Bio4Energy researchers meet at Skellefteå, Sweden in June 2023.Bio4Energy

Bio4Energy Researchers’ Meeting

Here is where the Bio4Energy researchers and student researchers…
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Efficient Regional Biomass Logistics: Online Training

Invitation: Join us for an engaging and insightful three-day…
Advanced Biofuels Conference 2023, main banner. Courtesy of Svebio Swedish Bioenergy Association.Svebio

Advanced Biofuels Conference 2023

This conference gathers leading actors and stakeholders in the…
Back in days timber logs were often transported by waterways. A built up illustration of the beginnings of timber transport in northern Sweden. Photo by Anna Strom ©2023.©AnnaStrom

Course Start: Historical, Technological and Societal Background

Historical, technological and societal background to forestry…
Bio4Energy Advisory Board at an excursion to the Biomass Technology Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Photo published with permission.

Bio4Energy Advisory Board Meeting

Bio-based fertilizers and biomass ash recovery to soils will…