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Success Stories
BioRural seeks to promote currently available small-scale bio-based solutions with a view to strengthen Bioeconomy in European rural areas. To this purpose, BioRural has identified the following “success stories” (covering all Bioeconomy Themes) coming from all 4 geographic quartiles in Europe in which the BioRural consortium operates.
Bio-based Garden
The “bio-based Garden” success story refers to crop testing as raw material for bio-based products. The garden investigates in the last 10 years the cultivation, harvesting, and handling of about 80 crops of which the products and by-products are used for different applications. Alternative soil conditioning and biofertilization is utilized to increase sustainability.
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Bioplastics by NP
NP designs and produces bio-based and biodegradable polymers (bioplastics). NP develops more than 200 new formulations per year based on polymers produced from first generation biomass like sugars and starch extracted from cereals or sugar cane, but also from wastes or by-products of several industrial activities.
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Fish Welfare
Pustelnia produces fish, mainly carp and trout. Carp is produced in naturally preserved fishponds covering nearly 400 ha. The fish are fed with plankton (naturally occurring in the pond), sustainably produced cereals and trout is fed with high-quality fodder based only on natural ingredients, to provide optimal conditions closest to their natural diet.
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Latvia’s State Forests
Latvijas valsts meži” (LVM) is a join stock company, owned by the state. It is managing ~1.6 million ha of forests (is is about half of the country’s forests or quarter of the country’s area).
The overall strategic objective of LVM is to implement the sustainable (economically profitable, environmentally friendly, socially responsible) management of the state’s strategic assets, including state forest property, and the development of the necessary infrastructure, services and knowledge.
The overall strategic objective of LVM is to implement the sustainable (economically profitable, environmentally friendly, socially responsible) management of the state’s strategic assets, including state forest property, and the development of the necessary infrastructure, services and knowledge.
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Olive pomace gasification
Aceites Guadalentin olive oil mill has pioneered the first gasification plant of dried olive cake operating at full scale in the agroindustry facility. The innovation stems from the need and opportunity to manage locally the so-called olive pomace. This wet by-product is usually object of transport to be brought to final users, as can be olive pomace oil extraction industries or bioenergy plants.
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Forest debris management and fire prevention
SCIVEN’s activity endorses municipalities, elderly centers and hotels from rural areas, where debris from forest and agroforestry management are plentiful providing solutions and equipment for the valorization of that biomass through the simultaneous production of heat and electrical power (when possible) at a community level.
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Staramaki
Staramaki is a Social Cooperative based in a rural region in the North of Greece in the area of Kilkis that utilizes the by-product of local wheat cultivation, to create a viable eco-friendly alternative to single-use plastic straws and at the same time create employment opportunities for vulnerable groups of people, promote social cohesion, as well as local and regional development. Staramaki incorporates both environmental and social objectives, supporting the circular economy by capturing value from agricultural waste in order to produce a biomaterial.
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Algae production in wastewater
Algae biomass can be used for animal feed, biofuels, biomaterials, organic fertilisers, and soil amendments to improve the soil quality. Valuable compounds for (phyto)pharmacy and cosmetics can be extracted as well. Bio-stimulants and bio-pesticides from algae have already been shown to be very effective in agriculture. Algae can also be used for food (Spirulina, Chlorella) if the wastewater is pre-treated or comes from a side-stream of food production or processing.
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The objective
BioRural’s goal is to create a European Rural Bioeconomy Network to promote small-scale bio-based solutions in rural areas and to increase the share of the Bioeconomy
Specific objectives
- Evaluate the current status of the European Bioeconomy
- Identify factors affecting innovation adoption and diffusion of bio-based solutions
- Create a European rural Bioeconomy network
- Assess and promote bio-based solutions in rural areas
- Facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building for the rural Bioeconomy
- Develop and continuously optimise an online open stakeholders’ tool (BioRural Toolkit)
- Create rural development blueprints for Bioeconomy businesses from conception to scale
Approach
BioRural is centered on three pillars that feed into a publicly available BioRural Toolkit
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