Star-COLIBRI
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An introduction to Star-COLIBRI
Star-COLIBRI is a major strategic initiative in the areas of bioenergy and specialities, co-ordinated by the Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform FTP
Five ETPs have joined forces within STAR-Colibri (there are 11 partners in the consortium in total):
- Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform
- European Biofuels Technology Platform
- European Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem)
- Plants for the Future ETP
- Manufuture Platform
The following information on STAR-Colibri is based on a presentation made by Dr. Andreas Kleinschmit von Lengefeld of the Forest-Based Sector TP.
The main objectives of STAR-Colibri are to:
- Support collaboration between Industry, National Funding & EU & MS Policy Makers
- Overcome fragmentation in the field of biorefineries research
between: EU, Member States; Public and industry-driven research;
different scientific disciplines - Facilitate information exchange and cross-fertilization
- Support break-through innovations by speeding up and facilitate industrial exploitation of research results
- Train and prepare for future joint programming and potential joint public-private partnership initiative
The short-term strategy of STAR-Colibri is "star clustering" - identify projects that can make a difference and help them to make a difference!
- Many research projects lack the industrial relevance to have impact on a European scale by 2020
- Large research projects can make higher impact, but are more bureaucratic
- Smaller projects can develop enabling technologies but often lack the critical mass to exploit the results
- Role models act as strong catalysts for positive change
Further information and links relating to STAR-Colibri will appear here as the project progresses in 2009/2010.