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Bio4Energy Advisory Board meeting – EU perspectives on the bioeconomy and bio-based resources

23 February, 2026/in News/by Irina Iakovleva

The recent digital Advisory Board meeting brought together representatives from industry, academia and policy to discuss how current EU developments are shaping the conditions for the Swedish bioeconomy.

A shared message from the meeting was that the EU’s new bioeconomy strategy creates important opportunities for bio-based value chains, while at the same time an increasingly complex regulatory landscape affects planning and investment conditions.

Several presentations highlighted how new rules related to forests and land use may influence the availability of biomass in Sweden, with implications for both industrial development and the climate transition. A research perspective also pointed to the importance of considering market-based harvest leakage and of taking a broader international, system perspective in climate policy.

The discussions also highlighted opportunities for stronger collaboration and better use of EU research and innovation funding. Test and demonstration facilities, strong partnerships and well-prepared projects were described as key factors for scaling innovation in the Swedish bioeconomy.

Overall, the meeting showed that a successful bioeconomy needs long-term and predictable framework conditions, and close cooperation between research, industry and policy, if Sweden is to remain a frontrunner in sustainable and competitive bioeconomy development.

Thank you to all speakers and participants for a very valuable and engaging meeting.

Speakers

Gölin Gerken Christiansen, North Sweden European Office
Anna Törner, Svebio – Svensk Bioenergi
Torgny Persson, Skogsindustrierna
Robert Lundmark, Luleå University of Technology
Johan Börjesson, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Processum
Katarina Buhr, Formas – a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development

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Season’s Greetings from Bio4Energy

18 December, 2024/in News/by Anna Strom

As the season draws to a close, Bio4Energy wants to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This will be the last news post from Bio4Energy, from this publisher. Communications Anna Strom is leaving Bio4Energy at the end of 2024, but plans to be available by e-mail until the last week of January 2025. Please click the link below, to contact her.

Greatest thanks for this time to our researchers, collaboration partners, stakeholders, friends and colleagues.

With best regards,

Anna Strom

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Anna Strom, Bio4Energy Communications

Bio4Energy Advisory Board with guests Alice Kempe, Karin Johnson, 3 September 2024.

May We Tell You About Bio4Energy Advisory Board?

3 September, 2024/in News/by Anna Strom

The Bio4Energy Advisory Board, made up of ten distinguished representatives of the bioenergy and biorefinery sector in Sweden, was designed as a sounding board to the Bio4Energy Board and programme managers whose joint task is to administer and monitor the agenda of the research environment and its funding.

It met at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden this week to learn about the giant pilot hall being set afoot at the Domsjoe Development Cluster. On the cards for the new Bioeconomy Arena are 130 – 150 test beds for trial running and evaluating bio-based processes in increasingly large steps up to near industrial level.

Bio4Energy Advisory Board and guests met at Örnsköldsvik, Sweden this week to learn about the giant pilot hall being set afoot at the Domsjoe Development Cluster. On the cards for the new Bioeconomy Arena are 130 – 150 test beds for trial running and evaluating new bio-based processes in increasingly large steps up to near industrial level.

Pulping, chemicals, carbon capture and storage, carbon capture and use, as well as industrial biotechnology; will be the focal areas of this site for testing and scale up of bio-based innovations.

The fact that the Advisory Board is an internal and a consultative body, has come to mean that input to its discussions are not shared publicly. However, its mission is.

“I like the idea of the Advisory Board, if it is used as intended from the start: As an advisory body to the researchers’ agenda”, said Peter Axegård, who has been a member from the start five years ago.

“I take part to learn about what you are doing and enjoy [following] the development of young researchers. New knowledge and motivated researchers [are] what matters most to me”, he added.

Axegård has held a string of leadership positions in the sector, including at partner institutes to the current RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Today he serves as CEO of a startup in the sector, FineCell; where they develop a process for the production of nano cellulose called CellOx.

Bio4Energy Industrial Network

At the start of Bio4Energy, the academic leadership fostered close links with an industrial network of companies and regional level organisations that either promote or contribute directly to developing a bioeconomy for Sweden. Most of these organisations are still cherished collaboration partners to the approximately 225 Bio4Energy researchers.

However, because the research environment and its agenda have been steadily growing, it was thought necessary to bring a different structure to the links with and input from industry and the sector.

The Bio4Energy Advisory Board was drawn together with the aim of forming a consultative body to the Board of the research environment, with deep knowledge of the corresponding industrial sector.

The Bio4Energy Advisory Board was drawn together with the aim of forming a consultative body to the Board of the research environment, with deep knowledge of the corresponding industrial sector. It has become an institution in itself and convenes in biannual seminars.

We hope, at the next opportunity, to include comment from the Bio4Energy Board.

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