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D2.2 – D2.4 Final report on networking activities

Project acronym EPIC 2020

Project title Symbiotic bio-Energy Port Integration with Cities by 2020

Start/end date of the project 01.04.2013 – 31.03.2016

Project coordinator City of Malmö

Responsible partner author

Manolis Mallis Akarport S.A. Development Division Director Tel: +30 210 6194020 E-mail: [email protected]

Involved partners

City of Malmö HCN LiU AGIRE SST Provincia di Mantova

Deliverable due month March 2016

mailto:[email protected]

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Table of content

1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3

2. Site specific networking activities ................................................................................................... 4

2.1 Malmö ........................................................................................................................................... 4

2.2 Astakos ........................................................................................................................................ 15

2.3 Mantova ...................................................................................................................................... 24

2.4 Wismar ........................................................................................................................................ 33

3. Transnational network meetings .................................................................................................. 43

3.1 First Transnational Network Meeting: Malmö / Jordberga ........................................................ 43

3.2 Second Transnational Network Meeting: joint event of EPIC2020 and BERST projects ............. 43

3.3 Third Transnational Network Meeting in Wismar ....................................................................... 46

4. National conferences .................................................................................................................... 49

4.1 Sweden (Symciti Conference, Norrköping) ................................................................................. 49

4.2 Italy (International Fair of ECOMONDO, Rimini) ......................................................................... 50

5. Key impacts / performance indicators .......................................................................................... 52

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1. Introduction

The main aim of WP2 in the EPIC2020 project is the formation of site-specific networks at the four participating port sites (Malmö, Astakos, Mantova and Wismar). The networks will bring together a number of different stakeholders (industry, government, ports, academics and environmental advocacy organizations, etc). The aim of the networks is to support and enhance the implementation of the “technical” WPs of EPIC2020, by providing input and a platform for the discussion of new ideas and concepts for closing the loop of materials in to promote the most efficient use of available bioenergy resources and the most efficient conversion technologies in ports and surrounding areas. Apart from the local activities of the site-specific networks, actions are foreseen at a national level (the organization of conferences), as well as the cooperation of the networks through three trans-national networking conferences.

Figure 1: Role of WP2 in the EPIC2020 project

The development plan for the four site-specific networks was outlined in D2.1: Site Specific Network Plans of the project (compiled by Linköping University). The present report has been compiled by AKARPORT and summarizes the actual WP2 activities performed within the duration EPIC 2020 project. It combines the following deliverables of the EPIC2020 project:

D2.2: Concluding report from general meetings within the 4 site networks. At least six thematic network meetings per site were foreseen during the project duration.

D2.3: Concluding report from the national conferences. One national conference organized per port site was foreseen to take place during the project duration.

D2.4: Concluding report from the transnational network meetings. Three transnational network meetings were foreseen to take place during the project duration.

In general, all site-specific networks have been established successfully and the targets for the number of events and stakeholder participation have been met. The strategies and approach of each port-site network was modified and adopted to local conditions and requirements.

A comparison of the key findings and analysis of the network site events is presented in D2.5: Key findings and conclusions across all sites of the EPIC2020 project.

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2. Site specific networking activities

The following section presents the activities of the site-specific networks for the four port sites of the EPIC2020 project (Malmö, Astakos, Mantova and Wismar) during the three years of the project’s duration.

2.1 Malmö

In Malmö two large network meetings were held before the official start of the project. About 50 participants from 20 companies and institutions participated in the first workshop; the second had about 20 participants. There was a great interest for Industrial Symbiosis and an expressed need to establish a network. It was also expressed that upcoming meetings must be short, concise and with a clear orientation and agenda. Therefore, no initial launch event (as described in Annex I to the Grant agreement) was held in Malmö after the beginning of EPIC2020, instead the focus in the beginning was on bilateral meetings and smaller sized workshops with key stakeholders.

Key stakeholders were identified by the local EPIC management group1 by setting up different scenarios of industrial symbiosis activities, showing different actors in the center of the symbiosis. These key actors have been approached bilaterally and also invited to smaller workshops which were held throughout the project period. The workshops have been thematic to reach the group of stakeholders interested in the particular focus area, which led to relevant participants at all events.

In between workshops the local EPIC management group initiated bilateral meetings with several actors to investigate in more detail their current situation and ideas for future development with neighboring companies. The Malmo group has also been workshop leaders on internal stakeholder workshops, to assist individual stakeholders in their development towards higher resource efficiency. Without being able to put a figure on interest, the feeling is that more actors see a clear opportunity by participating in the network and investigating their own resource flows, and the interest grew throughout the project lifetime for most stakeholders. The interest did not grow within all stakeholder groups; here we found that the themes of the networking activities affected how the network was formed. Because of EPIC the clear focus have been bioenergy and heat, and therefore the core network group is now cooperating in a new project called “Shared energy doubles the force”.

The local EPIC management group also identified institutional stakeholders, where the Exploitation Group (Etableringsgruppen) was assessed to be of greatest importance. The group has decision power over new establishments in the harbor area and consists of the highest management at CMP (port operator) and directors of the technical departments in the City of Malmö. Representatives from the EPIC 2020 project have held presentations at their meetings on three different occasions. After the second visit to an establishment group meeting all technical departments appointed representatives on management level to address within the Industrial Symbiosis focus area. This was an important step to get all departments inline and well informed about projects and actions that wins on a gathered planning approach. The work with the vision for industrial symbiosis was approved by the group and carried out as a cooperation between the different departments at the City and CMP. The vision is to be presented at the next meeting in August 2016.

1 The Malmö local EPIC management group consists of representatives from City of Malmö, E.ON and

Linköping’s University.

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During EPIC’s lifetime new projects that focus on industrial symbiosis and Malmö port area have been approved, and therefore we make sure that the networking activities will continue and also strengthening the network further. City of Malmö has also built strong relations on a regional level and is cooperating with the Cities of Helsingborg, Lund and Kristianstad, to develop the industrial symbiosis concept further. Linköping University has taken the lead in a new initiative; Swedish Initiative for Industrial Symbiosis (SIIS), that aims to build up a network and knowledge center on a national level. Both City of Malmö and E.ON are actively supporting this initiative, together with a large number of organizations in Sweden. This means that on the side of creating a network in Malmö, additional networks in form of a regional and national network have been established.

Furthermore the Malmö working group has visited Norrköping and the industrial port site of Händelö to initiate a cooperation to exchange knowledge between the cities. Malmö and Norrköping have a lot of similarities but the way the development has carried out differs a lot. The plan for the meeting was to get politicians to meet to get inspired and learn from each other, but unfortunately as a consequence of a disease the meeting was carried out without politicians present. A new meeting is planned to be set up soon, in the framework of the post-EPIC2020 activities.

Table 1 summarizes the meetings performed in the framework of the Malmö port network.

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Table 1: Summary of networking meetings in Malmö

Name of event Category Date Location Total Participants Companies Public sector

If relevant: Expressed interest of joining the

network

Comment

Industrial symbiosis in Malmö port

area

Network meeting

11/12/2013 Malmö 11 1 5 - 2 larger start-up events had been held in front of the start of EPIC

(50/20 participants)


area

Network meeting

6/2/2014 Malmö 12 4 3 7 Explaining the concept, engaging

stakeholders


area

Network meeting

13/3/2014 Malmö 14 9 2 9 Explaining the concept, engaging

stakeholders

Smart energy solutions

Network meeting

26/5/2014 Malmö 13 5 3 6 Connections between stakeholders

connected to energy, focus on District heating to ferries


Network meeting

5/9/2014 Malmö 14 5 3 8 Industries deveolpment potentials,

and potential connections - developing ideas

Transnational network meeting


21/10/2014 Malmö/Jor

dberga 23 6 6 -

Network meeting between port areas, focus on stakeholder

mapping and biogas


Network meeting

4/12/2014 Malmö 12 5 4 Activities in Malmö port connected to findings in the cleantech study

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network

Comment

Meeting Point Urban Magma

International conference

18-19/03/2015

Malmö 166

Meeting Point Urban

Magma

Internation

al conference

Conference organized by City of Malmö with key speaker from Port

of Amsterdam focusing on bioecenomies, and 1 session on Industrial Symbiosis parly EPIC

results

Workshop at Meeting Point Urban Magma

Epic workshop (WP 5 related)

19/3/2015 Malmö 20 6 5

Workshop led by LiU focusing on successfactors and barriares for ind

symb., and which support that could be beneficial for developing

ind symb.

Skånes Energy Summit

Conference 17/6/2015 Malmö 299

A 1-day energy conference, where EPIC partners City of malmö and E.ON help a joint persentation

about industrial symbiosis in the port area, with a focus on waste

heat.

Vision workshop

WP4/5 workshop,

closed meeting

29/9/2015 Malmö 17 2 2

A meeting between City of Malmö and CMP with visit from E.ON and LiU to anchor our efforts to form a

joint vision for the port area. Participants was highest

management; directors from Malmö's technical and business department and CEO of CMP. A

desicion to give the working group mandate to work with a joint vision

was made.

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network

Comment

Green Port Congress


6-9/10/2015

Malmö 184

A large international conference mainly for ports and related

companies with focus on envrionmental issues in the port and ship industry. City of Malmö

and LiU held a presentaiton for the full audience about Port-City

integration, Industrial Symbiosis in Port areas and results and

experiences from EPIC 2020.

Malmö meeting

Norrköping

Study visit, additional network meeting

20/11/2015 Norrköping 12 2 3

The meeting was planned for politicians from Malmö and

Norrköping to meet and discuss similar challenges and areas where

we can learn from each other’s work. The focus was planned to be

industrial symbiosis and housing development areas (port close). This

meeting contributed to valuable contacts with the City of

Norrköping, and was a way for us to extend out network. Unfortunately the politician from Malmö fell ill, so

the meeting was carried out without the politician

representative.

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network

Comment

Presentation for students at

ISU

Student presentation

10/12/2015 Malmö 25 2 2

A presentation about the city's work within IS as a part of an education

for students studying Urban Sustainable Development. Around 25 participants, students, teachers

and 2 companies. Do not have participant list.

SymCity Conference

Conference 27-

28/1/2016 Norrköping 90 22 23

The national conference for Sweden was carried out through this

conference. The theme of the conference was transformation, and

one of the three key focuses was industrial symbioses. All swedish EPIC partners held presentations; E.ON as key note (focus on future

energy market), LiU and City of Malmö (both a industrial symbiosis

and Epic focus)

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network

Comment

EPIC extra workshop at

SymCity

Epic workshop (WP 5 related)

28/1/2016 Norrköping 18 8 4

To follow up the main conference, Epic arranged an additional

workshop. The workshop was also follow-up event to last years

conference Urban Magma, the result of that workshop was used as

a starting point to this. The focus was to discuss the different barriers

and challeges that arrise when trying to implement industrial symbiosis. Another important

discussion was the formation of a national network for industrial

symbiosis, an initiative from LiU. The initiative is starting to take

form, there is a wide support for the network and there also is a suggested working group to

formulate the next steps.

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network

Comment

Network meeting (WP 4

results)

Network meeting

4/2/2016 Malmö 27 12 4

A local network meeting in Malmö to spread the results of WP4

(Cleantech study and manual), and to get feedback on our work. The

meeting was divided in approximately 1 h presentations and 1 h workshop. The workshop

focused on if the participants found the method/manual useful and if

they had other ideas or experiences from this type of methods. A

valuable outcome was an invite to be a part of a group that will

formalise a suggestion on policy changes to the Swedish energy

agency in regards to better utilisation of low grade heat.

Malmö local working group,

vision workshop

Vision workshop,

closed meeting

3/3/2016 Malmö 8 5 1 A workshop to formalise the

framwork for the vision (WP 5)

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Comment

Final conference

Epic

Final conference

14/3/2016 Brussels 28 18 10

A 1-day conference to spread EPIC results was arranged. All main

activities was presented and results shared. The day ended with

discussions about the results and some important next steps and

possibilities to develop the results further. (37 registered guests)

In green font are non-EPIC2020 events, in which the project was presented.

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The network members of the Malmö port are summarized below. They include a wide range of local stakeholders, as well as external entities.

Table 2: Members of the Malmö network

# Company name Type of

organization Role of the organisation in relation to EPIC

2020

1 E.ON Commercial

company (Bio)energy-producer, Part of the local Malmö

Management group, partner Epic

2 Lantmännen Commercial

company Bio-resource producer/ Energy consumer

3 Lantmännen/ Gyllebo

Gödning Commercial

company Bio-resource producer/ Energy consumer

4 Sysav Limited company Waste management/ Bio-resource producer

5 Stena Recycling Commercial comapany

Energy consumer /Waste management

6 Norcarb Engineered Carbons

AB Commercial comapany

Waste heat supplier

7 CMP Limited company Energy user, land owner and coordinator. Part of

Epic local reference group

8 RagnSells Commercial comapany

Actor in harbour, resource consumer

9 IL Recycling Commercial comapany


10 OKQ8 Commercial comapany


11 Vopak Commercial

company Actor in harbour, resource consumer

12 Finnlines Commercial comapany

Actor in harbour, resource consumer, bio-resource provider

13 Scandinavian Tank Storage Commercial comapany


14 HJ Hansen Commercial comapany


15 Cementa Commercial comapany


16 Linköpings Universitet University LiU partner in Epic

17 Swedish Agriculture

University University Leader of program that is related to Epic

18 WSP Consultant company

Knowledge in project area, inhouse consultant

19 SP Reasearch institute

Knowledge exchange, future projects, joint input to related policy

20 Malmö Cleantech City Network Contact with cleantech companies

21 Sustainable Business Hub Network Organisation for cleantech companies

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# Company name Type of

organization Role of the organisation in relation to EPIC

2020

22 City of Malmö City authority Institutional stakeholder, project leader EPIC and

related projects

External network, outside Malmö Port area

23 Kemira Commercial

company Related projects/joint projects

24 Industry Park of Sweden Commercial

company Related projects/joint projects

25 Hifab Consultant company

Related projects

26 County Administrative board

of Skåne Regional authority

Institutional stakeholder, parallel project with connections to EPIC 2020

27 County Administrative board

of Skåne Regional authority

Institutional stakeholder, parallel project with connections to EPIC 2021

28 Swedish transport

administration National authority Institutional stakeholder in logistic matters

29 Port of Amsterdam Public limited

company International networking, knowledge sharing and

dissemination

30 Pure Energy

International networking, knowledge sharing and dissemination

31 The circular company


32 Kalundborg Symbiosis

Center Network


33 Econova Public Company Related projects/business idea

34 Lantmännen Agro ethanol Public Company Related projects/business idea

35 Municipality of Lund Municipal authority

Related projects/joint projects

36 City of Helsingborg City authority Related projects/joint projects

37 Öresundskraft Limited company (Bio)energy producer/related projects/joint

projects

38 HUT Skåne Network Regional networking and dissemination

39 Innovation Skåne Regional Service Related projects/joint projects

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2.2 Astakos The Industrial Symbiosis is an entirely new concept in Greece and most, if not all, potential network members of the Astakos port site had little or no knowledge of it. Key stakeholders for the network have been identified either directly, when business contacts were already in place with AKARPORT as part of their standard practices (e.g. import/export of raw materials and products), or indirectly, through lists supplied by Regional and local authorities and the “door-to-door” survey of the subcontractor. Contacts have been established with several important industrial actors (e.g. animal farms, cheese production companies, slaughterhouses, aquacultures / fish farming units, olive mills, rice producers) through phone communication and email exchanges. In these introductory contacts, actors were extensively notified about EPIC 2020 project, the scope of its activities, the IS concept, as well as the other stakeholders that have expressed interest in the project. An initial launch Event was organized in the city of Agrinio on the 10th of March 2014. The first meeting was planned as a public event and disseminated to a number of key actors that had been identified at this stage. Attendance reached 18 entities. Out of them (4) were olive producers, (1) slaughterhouse, the biggest rice producers company in Greece (Agrino), the biggest aquaculture company in Greece (Nireas) and the biggest agriculture cooperative union in the Region. The workshop included a number of presentations, aiming to address various aspects of the bio-based IS approach.

Figure 2: Initial launch event of the Astakos network

Subsequent networking events were conducted on a regular basis, although their frequency was often affected by national political developments (Referendum and elections of 2015, etc). In order to overcome the issue, Skype has been frequently used as a medium for communication and meetings in Athens, when network members were at the capital city, where arranged. A detailed list of networking events is presented in the Table below. Based on the results of the biomass availability study conducted by Clean Energy, AKARPORT’s subcontractor in the EPIC2020 project, the most mature concept for a bioenergy symbiosis approach was the construction of an anaerobic digestion unit handling the organic fraction of municipal solid

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waste and – potentially – other local biogenic waste streams. The concept was further elaborated and discussed in a number of meetings with local stakeholders so that it could be presented to a quite mature form to public authorities involved in the design of a new regional waste management plan. A key feature of the proposed concept was the utilization of the produced biogas for combined heat and power production. While the plan foresees the selling of the electricity to the grid, the produced heat could be used by adjacent companies for various purposes (space heating, process heat, drying etc). Thus, the setting of the anaerobic digester unit at the industrial area of the AKARPORT port site would provide an incentive for businesses to relocate in the other, provide further opportunities for collaboration and contribute to the development of an environment that would facilities further symbiotic exchanges between companies. Additional concepts, such as the implementation of purely private investments, such as a CHP unit fired with rice husk and potentially other types of solid biomass or a wet anaerobic digestion plant for the treatment of agro-food production residues such as cheese whey and slaughterhouses residues have been investigated. However, these concepts are of lower significance to AKARPORT, since their implementation is most likely to take place near the major producing facilities (and thus further from the port site), and with limited opportunities for further development of symbiosis approach beyond the simple exchange of fuels.

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Table 3: Summary of activities for the Astakos network

Name of event Category Date Location Total

Participants Companies

Public sector


network

Comment

Network launch event Local network meeting

10/03/2014 Agrinio 18 16 2

Explaining the concept of Industrial Symbiosis-Presentation of EPIC 2020

Participation of other project partners (LiU, NTUA) and external stakeholders (CERTH, CRES, YPEKA, NBG)

Engagement of stakeholders

Skype Network meeting

27/5/2014 Skype 8 6 2 Presentation of IS consept to specific busineses in Astakos port area

Presentation meeting Local network meeting

14/11/2014 Agrinio 4 - 4 Presentation of the EPIC project to the newly elected Agrinio mayor and his consultants. Support agreed.

Incubator kick-off Incubator workshop

22/12/2014 Agrinio 20 14 6 10

Specific companies coupled by the local Municipalities have formed the Incubator. Participation interest has been expressed by specific stakeholders

Incubator development Skype Network meeting

19/3/2015 Skype 7 5 2 1 Discussions with Incubator members to identify best courses of action for the Incubator development

National conference/transnational network meeting

Conference meeting

26/5/2015 Athens 45 40 5

Joint conference Akarport plus CERTH covering the sector's of Bioeconomy and IS for promoting sustainable growth and development. Synergies being made between EPIC 2020 and BERST project

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Public sector


network

Comment


23/6/2015 Skype 6 4 2

Discussions with Incubator members for possible ways to incorporate the newframework conditions as regards the management of the urban waste

Incubator development Network meeting

3/7/2015 Athens 5 5 0 Dicussions as regards the feasibility study of a biogas CHP unit from the digestible organic fraction of MSW waste

Incubator development Network meeting

29/7/2015 Athens 4 4 0 Discussions as regards the feasibility study of a biogas CHP unit.

Incubator development Skype workshop

6/10/2015 Skype 6 5 1

Discussions with Incubator members as regards the appropriate courses of action to be chosen, collaboration issues and legislative interventions to be taken.


3/11/2015 Skype 5 4 1 1

Discussions with Incubator members for possible ways to incorporate the anaerobic digestion unit in the waste management plan under development.

Incubator development Incubator workshop

21/12/2015 Agrinio 8 7 1 2

Development of a Waste Management Plan for the Aetoloakarnania Region with the collaboration and assistance of the Western Greece Region, the local Municipalities and the private companies. Alternative waste management plans were discussed and a second scenario was presented as regards the construction of a waste treatment unit with input of the waste content of only the private companies (milk, diary milk producers, pig farming and slaughterhouses units)

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Public sector


network

Comment

Network investigation Skype Network meeting

20/3/2015 Skype 3 2 1

Contacts with local olive kernel mill to discuss interest for joining the network

Incubator development Incubator workshop

29/3/2015-30/3/2015

Agrinio 7 6 1

Interviews were held with selective Incubator members and discussions have been made to evaluate the Industrial Symbiosis concept applied in the Aetoloakarnania Region as well as to plan further actions towards the establishment of a sustainable Industrial Symbiosis bio-energy ecosystem

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Figure 3: Incubator meeting at Agrinio

The members of the Astakos port network are presented in the Table below. They include some of the most significant private regional stakeholders, mostly coming from the agro-food and livestock sector. The involvement of local authorities, including the most important municipalities (Agrinio, Mesollogi) as well as the Regional Authority of Western Greece was also accomplished within the network. External stakeholders included research organization (CERTH, CRES) and manufacturing firms with an interest and the capacity to implement waste management projects in the area.

Table 4: Members of the Astakos network

# Name

Type of organization (cooperative, industrial company, commercial

company, etc.)

Sector (public/private)

Role of the organisation in relation to

EPIC 2020

1 Agricultural Cooperatives of

Mesologgi Agricultural Cooperatives Private

Bio-resource producers

2 AGROCAPITAL Food processing company Private Bio-resource

producers

3 Region of Western Greece Regional authority Public

Industrial Symbiosis

networking accelerator

4 Pig farming and piggeries

Association Agricultural Association Private

Bio-resource producers - Industrial Symbiosis


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# Name


company, etc.)



EPIC 2020

5 LEGHORN HELLAS Poultry farm Private

Bio-resource producer, potential bioenergy producer

6 DELFI S.A. Dairy milk products industrial company

Private

Bio-resouce producers-Potential bioenergy producer

7 BIOCONTRACTION Engineering firm Private

Design and implementation

of bioenergy concepts

8 Messologgi Municipality Municipal authority Public



9 AIFANTIS Slaughterhouses Private


10 Consultancy services-Tomato

producer

Technical advisor to agricultural cooperatives-

Tomatoes producer Private

Bio-resource producer,


11 FLAKAS S.A. Slaughterhouse/Pig

farming unit Private


12 KARALIS S.A. Dairy milk products producer company

Private


13 KOLOVOS S.A. Olive Producer Company Private Bio-resource

producer

14 KARVELAS S.A. Cereals and animal feed

company Private

Bio-resource producer

15 AGRINO S.A. Rice producer company Private


16 Environmental Consultant Technical advisor to

agricultural cooperatives Private

Contact with bio-resource

producers

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# Name


company, etc.)



EPIC 2020

17 NIREUS S.A. Aquaculture Private

Bio-resouce producers-Potential

bioenergy end-user

18 AMALTHIA S.A. Olive packaging company Private Bio-resource

producer

19 LAPAS Energy consultant Private

Technical advisor to bio-

resource producers

20 Xiromero Municipality Municipal authority Public


networking accelerator, bio-resource

producer

21 MELIADIS S.A. Olive and oil processing

company Private


22 IRIDA S.A. Fish and animal feed

company Private


23 Municipality of Agrinio Municipal authority Public


networking accelator, bio-

resource producer, potential bioenergy prorucer

27 DELFI S.A. Dairy milk products producer company

Private

Bio-resouce producer, Potential bioenergy producer

28 STERGIOU Consultancy services Private Contacts with bio-resource

producers

29 OLIXOIL Olive and oil processing

company Private


30 ELSAP Olive kernel mill Private

Bio-resource producer, bioenergy producer

31 Agrinio Recycling Association Recycling company Private Potential bio-

resource producer

32 Valtos Pellets Pellet production

company Private


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# Name


company, etc.)



EPIC 2020

External to the port area

33 Centre for Research and

Technology Hellas (CERTH) Research Organization Public


networking accelator, scientific / technical support

34 Centre for Renewable Energy

Sources (CRES) Research Organization Public


networking accelator, scientific / technical support

35 HELECTOR S.A. Manufacturing firm Private

Technology provider, potential

participant in public-private

partnerships for waste

management

36 YPEKA (Ministry of Environment,

Energy and Climate Change) Public Authority Public

Legal framework for

bioenergy investments

37 NBG (National Bank of Greece) Bank Private Financing of bioenergy projects

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2.3 Mantova

The project EPIC 2020 represented for Mantova a real opportunity to open the discussion on the future role of the Port of Valdaro and the possibilities of symbiosis among companies present in the area in relation with the city of Mantova. The research showed different interaction opportunities. All the stakeholders invited, representing different target group (Institutions, citizens, industries), appreciated this “new sound” of a modern industrial culture in which it’s possible to combine and stimulate different original initiatives. Thanks to different workshop organised during 2014, with many stakeholders, it was possible to define and focus different needs and problems, so summarizable:

1. Less bureaucracy in authorization processes, and more availability from Institution officers.

2. Development of new businesses and traffic in the port.

3. Absolutely need of a direct road-link to the Highway A22 “Mantova North” exit.

4. Less bureaucracy in the requirements for the establishment of companies in the port district area, or in case of enlargement of an existing operational base.

5. Much more effective collaboration between the Province and the Municipality of Mantova in the phase of adoption of port development Plans and Programmes.

Interesting proposals also emerged, such the realization of workshops involving more enterprises organized by themselves under the Epic project strategy. In this context interesting project proposals were suggested and analysed, such as:

The exploitation of water jumps inside the district (micro-hydro power plants).

Photovoltaic plants on the roofs of the store buildings and along the Highway A22.

A biogas power plant inside the district for the exploitation of biomasses coming from riparian areas, from residual areas and natural areas (see "DanubEnergy" project www.danubenergy.eu) together with the residential waste.

In particular, the project of a biorefinery by revamping the local oil refinery closed in 2103, represents an important proposal that EPIC 2020 project stimulated recently. In this context a feasibility study was done in which it was foreseen to create significant synergies between the industrial and the agricultural sectors to create a supply chain of raw materials (e.g. Natural vegetation from Valleys of the Mincio River, Poplar from short rotation forestry and cultivations of Arundo Donax) and by-products (e.g. rice straw, corn stover, poplar tops, marcs, prunings). Supply of urban wastes, from local multiutilities, has been considered too. Strength of the supply chain, in this case, is the port of Valdaro, whose inside dock is well interconnected to the railway and the Highway A22 (multimodality). In this proposal no competition with agriculture system (feed and food) is a must. What kind of commodities can be produced by a biorefinery? A diversifiable bouquet that can consider bioethanol, polyphenols, xylitol, etc...

Interesting is also the production of biomethanol, really important for some local industries, especially the ones that manufacture hardboard. In this case, the production process (Bio-syngas) of biomethanol also produces biochar as a by-product that can be used as fertilizer in agriculture.

The following table summarizes the networking events performed for the Mantova port site:

http://www.danubenergy.eu/

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Table 5: Summary of activities for the Mantova network



Public sector


network

Comment

kick off workshop

Local network meeting

16/12/2013

Valdaro Business Centre

20 10 7

Explaining the concept of Industrial Symbiosis and Presentation of EPIC 2020 Speakers: Francesco Dugoni –Agire Giancarlo Leoni P- Province of Mantova

Institutions and citizens thematic workshops


25/02/2014

Port Authority officeces (Valdaro)

14 1 7

To the audience (citizens and public authorities) were asked to fill out special forms reporting requests, problems, suggestions and ideas to create synergy between the activities that are located near the Port of Valdaro and adjacent residential areas Speakers: Simone Stancari –Agire Giancarlo Leoni P- Province of Mantova Murat Mirata - University of Liköping (by Skype)

Enterprises thematic workshop


27/02/2014

Port Authority officece (Valdaro)

10 4 5

To the entrepreneurs present at the meeting, was left a form to fill out to highlight the problems that can be encountered with respect to the current relationship between the district of the port and the inhabited area, or the potentiality derivable from EPIC2020 Speakers: Simone Stancari –Agire

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Public sector


network

Comment

All stakeholders groups workshop/forum


10/03/2014

Port Authority officeces ( Valdaro)

8 3 4

The last of three meetings of the forum as part of the European project EPIC2020, which aims to create harmony and synergy between the activities that insist on the harbor and the city referred in the harbor. Speakers: Simone Stancari – Agire Francesco Dugoni –Agire Giancarlo Leoni P- Province of Mantova

Launch event for network


25/03/2014

Valdaro Business Centre

29 19 10

Conference "Logistics and sustainability in the symbiotic relationship between the Port and City of Mantua", organized by the Province of Mantua and ACT, and oriented to the creation of a local network of partners for the sustainable development of the industrial district promoted by the European project EPIC2020. Speakers: Giancarlo Leoni -Province of Mantova Giampiero De la Feld, of Enco Simone Stancari – Agire Aldo Iacomelli, Luiss University of Rome



7/5/2014 Valdaro Business Centre

16 3 3

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Public sector


network

Comment

Green Chemistry Cluster launch event of Lombardy region

Conference 15/10/2014

Chamber of Commerce of Mantova

Conference organized by Chamber of Commerce of Mantova about Regional Cluster of Green Chemistry. Eng. Stancari presented the Epic Project

Mantova SimbioCity

3° Local network meeting

10/11/2014

Mantova 25 9 10 The meeting focused about I.S., Local biopotential and case studies. Speaker: Simone Stancari - Agire

Overall challenges to increase port traffic and minimize its impact on the local environment


1/12/2014

Mantova 20 14 2

Speakers: Simone Stancari, Agire and Arch. Giancarlo Leoni, Province of Mantua The meeting was held in the head office of the Entrepreneurs Association of Mantova in order to reach more enterprises and the main port operators.

Assessment of the Energetic Plan of the Province of Mantua


18/12/2014

Mantova 12 0 12

This meeting was mainly addressed to the administrators of the Province of Mantua in order to inform and update them on the implementation status of the Energetic Plan of the Province of Mantua. AGIRE presented the project EPIC 2020, its objectives, activities and the expected results.

MUNICH Transport and Logistic Fair


7/5/2015 Munich 26 10 4 Dissemination of EPIC as project and so far achieved results at NAPA area at conference. Several ports informed about the project.

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Public sector


network

Comment

Workshop with NAPA ports (North Adriatic Ports Association)


15/06/2015

Mantova 19 4 15

Speaker: Simone Stancari - Agire Following the partner meeting of the project "NAPA studies", in the afternoon was held a workshop to inform ports of: Venice, Trieste, Koper and Rijeka about the IS and to propose them to create local networks to develop IS in their port areas.

EUSEW EPIC info day


18/06/2015

San Giorgio

Within the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), the Municipality of San Giorgio organized the conference titled "Energy production and sustainable financial support to the agricultural sector". To the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaqIYGW8HStmbDRpX3uN8Oza_i8z33AKc

it can be seen the video recording of the topics covered during the event. AGIRE preseted the projects: LiCEA, EPIC 2020 and bio-MAN Speakers: Simone Stancari and Francesco Dugoni - Agire

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaqIYGW8HStmbDRpX3uN8Oza_i8z33AKc

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaqIYGW8HStmbDRpX3uN8Oza_i8z33AKc

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Public sector


network

Comment

Role of plans, rules and other policy tools in the implementation of the IS


28/09/2015

Mantova 18 8 2

During the meeting "The draft plan of ports and logistics approved the Council of Ministers" has been presented. In this document there are many chapters on inland navigation, simplification, customs corridors and relations with seaports. All themes that the EPIC netwok intends to develop. Speakers: Alberto Milotti - Bocconi University Diego Crivellari – member of Italian Parlament Simone Stancari – Agire

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Public sector


network

Comment

National conference - Main theme: "Bio-Energy Symbiosis in the port areas"

National conference

6/11/ 2015

Rimini 31 13 4

Invited speakers: - ERNEA/Eurisa, Emilia Romagna for IS experience; - summary of EPIC results - Potential financing path: EC officer for Horizon 2020 calls2 The Province of Mantua has the budget to organize the conference. Within July the Province of Mantova has to verify if it will be possible to organize the conference within the Rimini fair of Ecomondo (international Fair on recycled materials and energies, and the sustainable development), date: 3-6 November 2015. Since the Italian Government is reforming the Provinces and changes are taking place in the functional of our public body, if administrative procedures do not allow you to organize a conference in Rimini, the EPIC project national conference will be organized in Mantua.


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The following table presents the member of the Mantova network.

Table 6: Members of the Mantova network

# Company name Type of organization Role of the organisation in

relation to EPIC 2020

1 Autorità Portuale di Savona Savona Port autority

non-economic public body established in 1994 by law n. 84,

which manages the stretch of coast from Albissola Marina to

Bergeggi: a 10 km seacoast including the harbours of Savona and Vado Ligure and many sand

beaches

2 Reggiani limited liability

company Industrial company

environmental remediation, construction of aqueducts,

sewers, pipelines

3 Studio Tecnico Ing Buttini Professional Plant projecter/technical

projecter

4 Gruppo Manni HP Building/RES plant builder Biogas/Photovoltaic plant

Investor, bio-energy producer

5 Banca Monte dei Paschi di

Siena Bank Financial Supporter

6 Pagliari F.lli Snc Industrial company manufacturer for biomass

transport machines

7 Municipality of Mantova City authority Institutional stakeholder, influence

over city planning, part of City’s exploitation group

8 Allibo Adriatico limited

company Commercial Company Logistic

9 International Propeller Club

Port of Mantova Association

International networking, knowledge sharing and

dissemination

10 Motonavi Andes Negrini

Cooperative Society Cooperative


11 Manni Group Industrial company Actor in harbour, resource

consumer

12 AGIRE limited liability

company Energy Agency Partner in Epic

13 GT Cave limited liability

company Commercial Company Actor in harbour

14 Immobiliare GT Srl Real Estate company Port service user and current

logistic operator

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# Company name Type of organization Role of the organisation in

relation to EPIC 2020

15 Carrozzeria Bizeta Harbour manifactory Potential car waste flow

exchanger

16 Versalis Limited Company Industrial company Potential bio-resource

transformer

17 Rail Service limited liability

company Transports

Integrated system of logistics services

18 Venice Port Authority Port Authority Mantova Port operator/Potential

replicator

19 EZIT Ente Zona Industriale

Trieste

Public Development Agency of Industrial site

of Trieste Port Potential replicator

20 Klaipeda State Seaport

Authority Port Authority Potential replicator

21 Genova Port Authority Port Authority Potential replicator

22 Interporto Quadrante Europa -

Consorzio ZAI Logistic platform

Potential partner for port logistic intermodality

23 Mantova Port Authority Public Body Strategic development partner

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2.4 Wismar

In Wismar exists a strong network between the local wood-based industry, the Wismar port and the hinterland connections to the forest on the public and private site. These hinterland connections were realized by many logistic companies, bringing the bio-resources from the forest to the industry. The private companies in the wood-cluster are well organized all bio-resources from the forest were to 100% used for bio-materials and bio-energy including the disposals managed by local waste companies. The network activities from the wood cluster were organized since more as 10 years by HCN with the focus on research and development. Beside the Wood -Cluster network, other networks with different focus exists in the region. A strong shipbuilding industry, transport and logistics network, food production and WWG-all regional companies organization as well as the chambers of commerce in Schwerin and Rostock. The networks are connected with stakeholders with interest in different field and continuously meetings to common questions.

In the frame of EPIC, HCN started local network meeting with stakeholders from other networks with the focus of bio-and waste resources, transport, handling, conversion, technology transnational networking.

The first local network meeting started in November 2013 with 31 participants from companies in the forest resource and transport sector from Northern Germany (resource capturing area for the Wood-Cluster). The objectives of the EPIC project and the practical network activities were discussed and connections to other related stakeholder networks established.

In the consequences of the activities, the Rostock business network was strong interested on a cooperation with HCN in the EPIC project. Especially the Rostock Fright Port (RFH), as public owned port handling company, saw the potential for the Rostock region to profit from the Wismar experiences and the work into to EPIC project. The RFH became an associated partner in the EPIC-project and worked active in the Rostock port network. From this reason, the EPIC-network activities were expanded in the Rostock port area with the industrial zone and followed to new planning activities for biomass use in the port located stone coal power plant.

The integration of the Ministry of Energy and Transport of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from the beginning of the EPIC-activities, over the Transnational and National conference in Wismar in 2015 till the final conference led to new connection to the biggest energy consumer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the shipyards, which started in result of the national conference the planning of alternative biomass resource use for steam, heating and electrical energy production for three shipyard locations in Wismar, Rostock and Stralsund with a potential Volume of 3 x 25GWh/y with potential positive consequences for the biomass producers (Biotherm-Hagenow), Transport and Port handling companies.

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Table 7: Summary of activities of the Wismar network



Public sector


network

Comment



28/11/2013 Wismar 31 20 7



24/1/2014 Wismar 4 2 2

KELAG Wärme Stakeholder meeting

05/11/14 Villach 11 5 7

2014, Nov 05th - Stakeholder meeting at KELAG Wärme AG in Villach-Kärnten/Austria to promote EPIC symbiose concept in the bioenergy small and medium heating facilities and networks for cities. Explaning the use and capturing of local bioresources for heating technology producer and service provider near inland water and seawater ports. Austrian heating service provider expand with her technologie to the north of europe and one barrier is the missing available bioresources. (11 participants)

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network

Comment

Polish State Forest Transnational network meeting

07/11/14 Lagow 39 5 2

2014, Nov 07th - Stakeholder Meeting with the Polish State Forest in Lagow /Poland to explain possibilities to capture and collect bioresources from the forest and sell it into the energy market via logistic efficiency transport modes over river and seawarter ports. Demonstration of the RegioPower tool and his application in the EPIC project. Agreement of a test installation and participation in a test period. (39 participants).

Logistikinitiative Stakeholder network meeting

10/12/14 Rostock 45 39 2

2014 Dec. 10th - "Logistikfrühstück" from the Logistinitiative Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at Panorama Deck at Radisson Blue Rostock. Explaning the EPIC project and goals in the Rostock network and MV-Logistik hinterland connections. 45 participants

Euroports Luxemburg


16/01/15 Rostock-Europort 9 4

2015 Jan. 16th - Europort / Rostock presentation of EPIC Symbiose Concept and the benefit for the Europort network in transport biomass to port area and hinterland converter facilities

RegioPower Transnational network meeting

21/01/15 Leipzig/Markleeberg 21 15

2015 Jan.21th - Leipzig/Markleeberg, RegioPower project Meeting with Logistikinitiative Sachsen and presentation of the EPIC project und the use of the RegioPower tool in the epic context. (21 participants)

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network

Comment

Egger network Local network meeting

13/02/15 Wismar 19 12

2015 Febr. 13th - Wismar Egger Holzstoffwerke, network meeting with local stakeholders and logistic service providers to explain the EPIC logistic tool and prepare the test cases in one of the Egger Wood facilities together with intersted logistic providers (19 participants)

IHK-Rostock Local network meeting

25/02/15 Rostock 44 35

2015 Febr. 25th - IHK Rostock, Network meeting with Logistkinitiative Mecklenburg-Vorpommern about the potenticial of bioenergy transportations from ports to the hinterland in the EPIC context and possibilities to optimize the logistic costs as part of the efficiency of the biomass resource use. (44 participants).

Ministry Schwerin Local network meeting

04/03/15 Schwerin 9 3 5

2015 March 04th - Ministry of Energy Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, business meeting with state secretary Ina-Maria Ulbrich and minister Christian Pegel about new chanches and challanges for the energie and logistic industrie by promoting the industrial symbioses concept. Presentation of EPIC project. (9 participants)

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network

Comment

Arbeitgeber Lübeck


09/03/15 Wismar 12 9 1

2015 March 09th - Wismar, Network meeting with the Arbeitgebervereinigung Lückeck/Schwerin for promoting the EPIC Concept in the context of the Fehmarn/Belt tunnel and the effects of the port situation in Wismar and Lübeck. (12 participants)

HERO Rostock Local network meeting

08/04/15 Rostock Port 8 5 2

2015 April 08th - Rostock HERO - Port development Rostock, Network meeting with director HERO, Wismar Port, DB Schenker about the Logistik challages and potential of the further EPIC Promotion in the Rostock hinterland region. ( 8 participants)

IGD Fraunhofer Transnational network meeting

28/04/15 Rostock IGD 49 8 38

2015 April 28th - Rostock, Fraunhofer IGD and Staatskanzlei Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - presentation of EPIC project for the "Ostseeforum MV"- groups of stakeholders from the municipalities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the ministries.(49 participants)

RFH-network Local network meeting

22/05/15 Wismar 12 8

2015 May 22th - Wismar, stakeholder network meeting with the Rostocker Fracht&Fischery harbour about marketing strategies for the development of the industrial port area in the EPIC context, calculation table for cost efficiency. (12 participants)

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network

Comment

VNG-SST meeting Local network meeting

17/06/15 Wismar 8 3

2015 June 17th - Wismar - network meeting with VNG-gas network germany to pülan cost efficiency installations by the use of biogas versus natural gas. Planning discussion about gasifications of biowaste in the RFH-Rostock area in the EPIC context. (8 participants)

Business conference and transnational network meeting

National conference and transnational network meeting

24/09/15 Wismar 50 20 10

2015 Sept 24-25th - Wismar, Transnational network meeting with the Rostock and Wismarer Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft. Application of EPIC results in the daily business decisions (planned: 60 participants)

Baltic Logistic Conference 2015 (BLC 2015)


06/10/15 Rostock Neptun Hotel

100 80 20

Annual national Logistic Conference from "Logistikinitiative" Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with strong direction of Green and efficient transport and energy use: EPIC Logistic Tool was presented and promoted.

DLR-Egger Sensormeeting


29/10/15 Wismar 10 4 2015 - Further implementation of the Biomass and Logistic tools in the Wismar and Rostock network.

Egger Holzstoffwerke


18/11/15 Wismar 8 3 Explaining the EPIC: logistic tool for further use in bio waste capturing

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network

Comment

Secretay of State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern


08/12/15 Schwerin 100 60 40 10

The Secretary of State of the prime minister and the Camber of Commerce organised a transnational network meeting with "Invest in Skane" to promote transnational cooperation projects. EPIC as a good cooperation example in the bioenergy sector presented and the current results for the german region.

Logistikfrühstück from Logistikinitiative MV

national network meeting

11/12/15 Rostock SAS-Hotel 60 45 15 10

2015 Dec. 11th - "Logistikfrühstück" from the Logistinitiative Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at Panorama Deck at Radisson Blue Rostock. Explaning the EPIC project and current results in the Rostock network and MV-Logistik. 60 participants / 45 compamnies from MV


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The members of the Wismar network are presented in the table below. They include a wide range of stakeholders, including logistics companies, port operators, potential bioenergy consumers and producers, consulting firms and public authorities. Contacts with stakeholders outside the port area has also been established.

Table 8: Members of Wismar network

# Company name Type of organization) Role of the

organisation in relation to EPIC 2020

1 AFZ Aus- und Fortbildungszentrum Rostock

GmbH consulting company bioenergie school

2 Agentur für Arbeit Rostock public authority bioenergy staff management

3 AHLMANN-ZERSSEN GMBH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

4 Auge Transporte + Logistik GmbH & Co. KG commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

5 Baltic Lloyd Schiffahrt-Spedition-Logistik GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

6 Baltic Marine Consult GmbH consulting company bioenergy consulting

company

7 Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und

Logistik (BME) Network network

8 Burchardt Transporte KGmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

9 BUSS Port Logistics GmbH & Co. KG commercial company bioenergy port

operater

10 CPL Competence in Ports and Logistics consulting company bioenergy consulting

company

11 DB Netz AG commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

12 DB Schenker Rail AG commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

13 DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

14 Deutsche Eisenbahn Service AG commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

15 Emons Spedition GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

16 ENEX Finanzpartner und

Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH commercial company

bioenergy financial company

17 European Cargo Logstics GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

18 Euroports Germany GmbH & Co. KG commercial company bioenergy port

operater

19 Fährhafen Sassnitz GmbH commercial company bioenergy port

operater

20 Finnlines Deutschland GmbH commercial company bioenergy port

operater

21 Frachtcontor Junge & Co. GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

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22 GAZPROM Germania GmbH commercial company potential bioenergy

producer

23 GOLDBECK commercial company potential bioenergy

producer

24 Hafen- und Seemannsamt Rostock public authority public

25 HERO Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock

mbH commercial company port management

26 Hochschule Wismar university bioenergy logistcs

27 Industrie- und Handelskammer

Neubrandenburg public authority public

28 Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Rostock public authority public

29 Inros Lackner SE commercial company bioenergy consulting

company

30 Invest in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH commercial company bioenergy consulting

company

31 Jesse Aktiengesellschaft commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

32 John Herzberg Schifffahrt + Logistik commercial company bioenergy port

operater

33 Karpack GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

34 Landesamt für Straßenbau und Verkehr

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern public authority public

35 Landkreis Rostock public authority public

36 Logistikinitiative Mecklenburg - Vorpommern

e.V. network transport network

37 MAZA M-V Kooperationsverbund Maritime

Zulieferer-Allianz MV potential bioenergy

consumer

38 Medienbüro am Reichstag GmbH consulting company bioenergy consulting

company

39 Ministerium für Energie, Infrastruktur und

Landesentwicklung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern public authority public

40 Nordic Yards commercial company potential bioenergy

consumer

41 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg university university

42 Planungsverband Region Rostock public authority potential bioenergy

consumer

43 Quintiq GmbH consulting company bioenergy consulting

company

44 Rebus Regionalbus Rostock GmbH commercial company

45 Rostock Business consulting company bioenergy consulting

company

46 Rostock Trimodal GmbH commercial company port operator

47 Rostocker Fracht- und Fischereihafen GmbH commercial company port operator

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48 RVV Rostocker Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-

Holding GmbH commercial company

potential bioenergy consumer

49 SANDER SPEDITION commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

50 Sartori & Berger GmbH & Co. KG commercial company bioenergy port

operater

51 Scheller Systemtechnik GmbH commercial company bioenergy technology

company

52 Schmidbauer Gruppe commercial company

53 Seehafen Wismar GmbH commercial company port operator

54 Spedition Heinrich Gustke GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

55 Spedition HOMTRANS Service GmbH & Co. KG commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

56 SWS Seehafen Stralsund GmbH commercial company port operator

57 TÜV NORD commercial company bioenergy consulting

company

58 Universität Rostock university bioenergy consulting

company

59 Verband Spedition & Logistik Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern e.V. network transport network

60 Wirtschaftsfördergesellschaft Vorpommern

mbH consulting company

bioenergy consulting company

61 Zippel Logistik GmbH commercial company bioenergy logistic

company

External network, outside Wismar/Rostock area

62 Polish State Forest public company bioenergy resource

producer

63 KELAG Wärme AG commercial company bioenery producer

64 Egger Holzstoffwerke commercial company bioenery producer

65 KWB Biomasse commercial company bioenery technology

company

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3. Transnational network meetings

Transnational Network Meetings are the major outcome of Task 2.4 of the EPIC2020 project. A total of three transnational events were foreseen, scheduled to take place in Malmö (SE), Wismar (DE) and Province of Mantova (IT), ideally combined with a site-visit. The trans-network meetings will be for discussing issues such as success factors and barriers in regards to the establishment of networks of bioenergy symbiosis between port-cities-industries, networking tools and strategies, the sustainability of networking activities, dissemination effects etc.

The first Transnational Meeting was scheduled to take place in Mantova, May 2014. However, it proved impossible for external stakeholders to join; in order to meet the target of three such events, a transnational network meeting was organized in Athens, as a parallel event to the Global Conference on Global Warming 2015.

3.1 First Transnational Network Meeting: Malmö / Jordberga

In 22nd October 2014 the first transnational network meeting was held in Malmö. The meeting had a focus on WP2; how to set up a network and stakeholder mapping. An important part was also for some of the stakeholders in Malmö to present their work and give input to the project theme. The meeting was held a Jordberga farm which is a huge farm in Scania that are very focused on renewable energy such as wind and solar, and in particular biogas. The biogas plant is one of Sweden’s largest, and produces 11.7 million Nm3 bio-methane yearly. The meeting ended with a study tour at the plant.

After a warm welcome and presentation by the farm owner’s; City of Malmö held a presentation about how they work with sustainable development in urban areas, E.ON presented their organisation and work within sustainable development and especially their activities within the project, and finally CMP also presented its organisation and how they work with environmental issues in the port of Malmö.

As a second part of the day Linköping University held a workshop on methods to map your stakeholders and how this can help the network to grow and to include a good mix of different stakeholders. The workshop was very valuable and ideas were exchanged between the stakeholders of the different port sites that were attending.

Except project partners, stakeholders from networks in Malmö and Mantova were participating at the meeting.

3.2 Second Transnational Network Meeting: joint event of EPIC2020 and BERST projects

The second transnational network meeting was organized on the 26th May 2015 in Athens. It was organized as a parallel session to the Global Conference on Global Warming 2015 (GCGW-2015) and organized by AKARPORT S.A. and Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), the “parent” organization of AKARPORT’s subcontractor, Clean Energy.

In order to maximize the impact and foster collaboration between different EU initiatives, the transnational network meeting was organized as a joint event of two EU-funded projects, EPIC2020 and the BERST (www.berst.eu) project, which is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme.

http://www.berst.eu/

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The focus of the BERST project is on regional bioeconomy potential. “Bioeconomy” is the economy based on the production of renewable biomass resources such as plants, wood and waste, and their conversion into food, feed, biobased products and bioenergy. The BERST project (BioEconomy Regional Strategy Toolkit) aims to explore the bioeconomy potential of EU regions. BERST provides a toolkit to help regions in their trajectory of bioeconomy development:

- catalogue of instrument and measures (click here to go to the tool)

- catalogue of good practices and case studies

- guidelines for elaborating regional profiles

BERST provides a network to promote the development of smart specialization strategies based on regional bioeconomic potentials. The BERST impact lies in contributing to long term economic and environmental sustainability, by

- understanding the regional bioeconomy development;

- boosting bioeconomy industries, potential entrepreneurs and investors in regions; and

- actively promoting new smart strategies for regional development through establishing a EU bioregional network.

It is obvious that both “industrial symbiosis”, especially in a bioenergy framework, and the “bioeconomy” concepts can be closely connected; port-sites in particular are major pieces of infrastructure and can be strategic resources for a region that is interested in developing its bioeconomy potential. This was described in the introductory speech to the event, given by Dr. Panagiotis Grammelis of CERTH (see Figure 4). Additional, specific points of collaboration include the close contact of AKARPORT and the regional authority of Western Greece, focusing particularly on the area of Etoloakarnania, where the port is located, the presence of the province of Mantova as an EPIC2020 partner, who could potentially benefit from the tools and results of the BERST project as well as the presence of the inland port site of Straubing, Germany as a BERST project partner (unfortunately, not represented in the event due to scheduling issues).

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Figure 4: Reasoning for joint collaboration of the EPIC2020 and BERST projects

The event programme was structured around three main sessions (Figure 5). The first session focused on the BERST project. The project coordinator, Myrna van Leeuwen from Wageningen University presented an overview of what exactly bioeconomy contains and what modules the BERST toolkit contains and how it intends to help. Jon Stenning from Cambridge Econometrics presented the effort that was made within the project to identify suitable indicators for measuring the bioeconomy potential of a region. Gareth Brown from Imperial College presented an analysis of the bioeconomy development paths in good practice EU regions being in different maturity stages. The application of the major BERST outcome, the bioeconomy regional profile, was presented by Laura Vertainen (JAMK University of Applied Sciences) as it applies to the region of Central Finland. Central Finland is of major important to the project, since it will host a major biorefinery investment (more than 1 billion EUR) in the coming years. Finally, Remco Kranendonk, Alterra Wageningen outlined the achievements and events performed in the BERST Community of Practice, which is the main network built within the framework of the BERST project regarding exchanges of experiences and identifying opportunities for collaboration.

The second session was devoted to the EPIC2020 project. It included a short project presentation by the project coordinator, Ellen Corke, of the City of Malmö, followed by a presentation of the Industrial Symbiosis concept from Murat Mirata, Linkopings University. The next presentations focused on the specific activities undertaken at three out of four port sites of the project (Malmö, Mantova and Rostock/Wismar) and were delivered by EPIC2020 partners or network members (in the case of Malmö). The last presentation of the session was performed by NTUA, which presented the tools under development for port sites to visualize potential and identify opportunities for new solutions.

The final session focused on Greece and the possibilities and potential of the two main focus concepts, “bioeconomy” and “industrial symbiosis”. Dr. Antonios Gypakis, representing the General Secretariat for Research Technology, presented the Smart Specialization Strategies for Greece and how they fit in the overall bioeconomy and industrial symbiosis framework. The next two presentations concerned the Greek partners from the BERST and EPIC2020 projects. First, Nikos

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Ntavos, from the Region of Western Macedonia, presented the regional activities in the promotion of bioenergy. Then, Mr. Balabanis, representing the Region of Western Greece – a member of the Astakos network - gave a short speech regarding the regional priorities on waste management and bioenergy, while Mr. Manolis Mallis from AKARPORT gave an overview of the port activities and solutions they are considering. The final presentation was from Manolis Karampinis of CERTH, who gave an introduction to various projects and initiatives performed in Greece and the EU regarding bioeconomy and synergetic relationships between sectors. This led into the final discussion between participants regarding possibilities for promoting industrial symbiosis and bioeconomy in Greece.

Figure 5: The programme of the 2nd transnational networking meeting in Athens

Overall, the second transnational meeting in Greece attracted 39 stakeholders, including EPIC2020 and BERST project partners, port-site network members, representatives of regional governments, research and academic institutions and other organizations. The presentations were made online both on the EPIC2020 website, as well as on the BERST website (http://www.berst.eu/PublicationDetail.aspx?id=1052).

3.3 Third Transnational Network Meeting in Wismar

In 24th September 2015 the Transnational Network Meeting was held in Wismar in the frame of the National conference in Wismar Technology center. The conference was organized together with the WWG and other networks around the biomass use, circular economy and their practically application in the field.

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After a warm welcome speach of the Mayor of the city of Wismar, the EPIC partners from Linköping University (LiU) described challenges for industrial symbiosis as a concept and presented good examples from different Swedish regions that have overcome these challenges. The key message in the presentation was the benefits of implementing a collective approach to resource management, where diverse local/regional actors create economic and environmental value by collaborating regarding; adding value to under-utilised or wasted resources; developing of more efficient, shared utility and service solutions; knowledge exchange and innovation. This presentation followed the National Technical University of Athens which presented and explained useful tools for planning and methods detecting untapped bio-resources. In the second section, presentations from local actors in the Wood cluster area of Wismar and the region displayed diverse application of biomass use.

The Managing director of the Stadtwerke Grevesmühlen presented the production of energy, biogas and heat with the intensive use of bio-energy resources in the region around Wismar. The KWB Biomass GmbH, an Austrian heating technology company presented practical applications of wood chips heating technology for small and medium enterprises, public buildings and households. In this context presented the EPIC-Partner Scheller Systemtechnik GmbH the practical use case for the EPIC Biomass communication and logistic tool, the need of more as 300 installed heating systems to cover with wood chips production from the local region with low logistic costs. The Energy manager of the biggest energy consumer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the three Nordic Yards, presented the need and use of energy in the shipyard production.

After lunch, Simone Stancarie from the EPIC partner Agire Energy Agency, moderated the excited round table discussion with the 50 stakeholders to relevant questions from the presentations and the biomass use in an European context. Peter Krüger from the Ministry of Energy and Transport explained the complex German regulations for biomass use as well as Rico Venzmer from Nordic Yards announced the readiness for starting the planning phase of biomass use.

Following the conference, the EPIC-partners and stakeholders visited the port of Wismar and the Wismar bay on board of the "Atalanta" a more as 100 years old sailing ship and discussed relevant issues from the conference and new activities.

The Transnational Networking Event in Wismar received significant local media attention and has been publicized in websites (http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Mecklenburg/Wismar/Wirtschaft/Chance-fuer-Biomasse-in-Hafenregionen) and newspapers (see clipping below).

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Figure 6: Local newspaper clipping on the Transnational Event in Wismar

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4. National conferences The organization of one national conference per port site is an outcome of Task 2.2 of the EPIC2020 project. The aim of these conferences is to sum up the results and progress made in each respective country as well as enhance national dissemination. The national conference in Greece was combined with the unforeseen trans-national event held in Athens; the national conference of the Wismar network was held locally. These events were described in detail in the previous sections. Below, the two dedicated national conferences held for the networks of Malmö and Mantova at the cities of Norrköping and Rimini respectively are presented.

4.1 Sweden (Symcity Conference, Norrköping)

The national conference for EPIC in Sweden was held in the city of Norrköping in 27 – 28 January 2016, and was co-arranged with the Symcity conference (www.symcity.se), a large conference hosted by Linköping University and the Region of Östergötland. The theme for the event was Transformation, and took a wide scope of the transformation of cities from where we are today to where we need to be tomorrow. One of the main focuses was Industrial Symbiosis, since it plays an important role in future cities. EPIC partners were represented in presentations, panel discussions, and the project also held a workshop on the theme “Barriers for Industrial Symbiosis” which built on results from another workshop at the conference Urban Magma in March 2015.

Day 1 of the conference focused on “Challenges”, and set the scene by showing examples of the challenges that different regions and organisations are facing. City of Malmö shared their main challenges that in key words can be described with; fast growing population, high unemployment and housing/service shortage – something that Malmö share with many European cities. At the same time Malmö has high ambitions of developing sustainable, and high set environmental goals. Industrial symbiosis addresses several of these challenges since it both gives companies a competitive edge to develop further in the region, and decreases emissions and the use of virgin raw material. Furthermore the City of Malmö described their role as a driving force, coordinator and facilitator of industrial symbiosis, and also shared the most important results of the EPIC project activities.

Researchers from Linköping University (LiU) described challenges for industrial symbiosis as a concept and presented good examples from different Swedish regions that have overcome these challenges. The key message in the presentation was the benefits of implementing a collective approach to resource management, where diverse local/regional actors create economic and environmental value by collaborating regarding; adding value to under-utilised or wasted resources; developing of more efficient, shared utility and service solutions; knowledge exchange and innovation. The awareness to this statement is high, but even so there are not enough initiatives towards this development in Sweden or in other countries.

There are a lot of barriers to why the development isn’t progressing faster, and those barriers where discussed at the workshop that EPIC arranged day 2. The barriers themselves had been listed in earlier workshop, so the focus now was to discuss solutions and ways to overcome barriers. To conclude, there was a big focus on how to overcome economical barriers such as; who will take the investment (outside core business)? How open can and need a company be to its neighbours and future business partners in order to create and show a win-win and trust for a joint investment? One important conclusion was that there is a need for a new player here that can take the role as a

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coordinator/matchmaker between the owner of a resource flow and the exploiter of the resource. Another important discussion related to informational barriers; the understanding of Industrial Symbiosis and the need for gathered information and good examples to be able to increase the interest for the area. To address this need a new initiative, also mentioned above, is under construction under Linköping University lead; Swedish Initiative for Industrial Symbiosis (SIIS). There is a large and wide interest for this initiative, which will be taking form within 2016 in a joint working group led by LiU where also both City of Malmö and E.ON will participate.

A very interesting part of the conference was when key note speaker Mattias Örtenvik from E.ON held a presentation that focused a lot on the future energy market, and how E.ON as a company has restructured and divided their entire organisation to be able to meet the future challenges on the energy market. One important trend is the need of going from large scale production plants to a more diverse production portfolio. In this future; industrial symbiosis can play an important role since the concept aims at gathering i.e. waste heat from a diverse set of sources to a district heating grid.

More information and presentations can be found here: www.symcity.se

4.2 Italy (International Fair of ECOMONDO, Rimini)

The conference, organized by AGIRE Energy Management Agency together with the Province of Mantova, has been included into the official Congress program of the International Fair of ECOMONDO in Rimini (November 2015 from the 8th to the 11th) within the theme of Industrial Symbiosis and showed different speakers with a series of interesting and relevant speeches.

The first two speakers have led through several aspects of the Industrial Symbiosis implementation. In particular the possible funding lines for the Industrial Symbiosis both at European and National level and the ordering principles of the concept of Industrial Symbiosis have been focused. Another intervention have addressed the historical applications of Industrial Symbiosis in Italy thanks to some experiments carried out in Italy through the European projects "Symbiosis" and "Eco-Innovation Sicily". During the conference the aims and activities of the EPIC 2020 project have been presented and also have been clarified some aspects of symbiosis mainly related to the use of port infrastructure such as better means of reducing emissions from logistics activities district. The last contribution drew a broad geopolitical picture of the industrial district and the port of Mantua, together with the economic and productive dynamics of the district, as a precondition for a presentation of the results obtained through the EPIC project for the pilot of Mantua till now.

Mantova was in fact defined by EPIC as the port site with the greatest bio-potential and thanks to the studies conducted till now by the local partners, the harbor of Mantova is a suitable place for investment in bio-based industries. In particular, the local Energy Agency AGIRE developed a pool of plant feasibility studies showing the big availability of residual agro-food biomass for the exploitation in a different potential process to be established in Mantova.

The most innovative feasibility shown was a second generation bio-refinery for the production of bio-fuel and bio-chemicals for the great demand of the local businesses: here in fact are based two of the bigger manufacture companies for the production of woodchip panels in Italy, producing the most part of the panels requested from the furniture market not only in Europe (such us IKEA): their demand is currently specific for methanol used to push glues within the pressed wood fibers of the panel.

Different synergies between companies were shown to realize an Industrial Symbiosis for the site: the pool of local feasibilities and the series of actions undertaken by local policy makers are

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contributing to make Mantova a site looking toward a real implementation of the circular economy, crossing its historical primary economy (the province is one of the richest in Italy for typical food products and cooking) and its most recent big petrochemical enterprises that were born in the 50s’.

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5. Key impacts / performance indicators The following section in the report presents the actual situation at the end of the project regarding the EPIC2020 project impacts and their respective, quantified performance indicators compared to the targets set in Annex I. Performance indicator 1: 20-30 network members per port site representing all the target groups The target has been met. Below, summary information on the network members and composition for each port-site is presented; more detailed information is available in Section 2 of this report.

The Malmö network consists of 39 different stakeholders (22 internal, 17 external, 103

contact points in total within these organizations), which include energy producers (E.ON.),

waste management companies (Sysav), the port authorities (CMP), commercial companies

and universities / research organizations (LiU, SP, Swedish Agricultural University).

The Astakos network consists of 32 local stakeholders (plus 5 external members) including

the port authority (Astakos), the municipal authorities of the major cities in the area (Agrinio,

Mesologgi), several commercial companies, mostly from the agro-food sector (active in

aquacultures, rice production, cheese production, olive oil production and treatment of

olives, etc) as well as members from the agricultural and livestock sector (agricultural

cooperatives, animal farms and slaughterhouses). External network members from the

academia / research (CERTH, CRES, NTUA), public authorities (Ministry of Energy,

Environment and Climate Change) and construction companies / financing are also involved.

The Mantova network consists of 23 main stakeholders, including local authorities, logistics

companies, financing bodies and potential resource consumers and producers and replicator

sites.

The Wismar network consists of 61 stakeholders (80 different contact points), including the

port operators of Wismar and Rostock, several logistics companies (including specialized

biomass logistics companies), technology providers, universities and potential resource

producers/consumers.

Performance indicator 2: 4 additional networks in existence in port sites other than the target ports by the end of the project The target has almost been met; three additional networks have been created. Despite the efforts and activities of the EPIC2020 consortium, the formation and operation of networks in external port sites is an activity that is based on external stakeholders that mobilize at their own schedule, without contractual obligations to the EC. As a result, the formation of external networks has been difficult. Concrete results were achieved in the port of Rostock, where it was easier to concentrate the efforts of project partners due to geographical proximity and business connections, as well as in the formation of a regional and national network in Sweden. In addition to these, Port of Venice and Port of Messologi have expressed great interest for the project and for joint efforts within the theme of bioenergy symbiosis.

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Below, more detailed information on each external network is presented. Rostock network During the activities to setup the EPIC network in the Wood Cluster Area around Wismar, the Fright Port of Rostock announced his interest to cooperate in the EPIC network. In the following time, the Port was integrated as associated project partner in the activities. The cooperation partners of the Rostock Port - public owned companies for waste management and logistics from the City of Rostock- were informed about the activities and objectives in the EPIC framework. In the Rostock area, 7 Conferences (see conference list before) with logistic- and resource management companies took place. In the result, one network partner, the KNG stone coal power plant starts her activities to plan the substitution of fossil coal resources by regional straw from the farms. Regional network Scania The regional network consists of public and private organisations in Scania, and has been started through a common project which to some extent builds on EPIC results. Right now there are 8 formal network partners situated in Malmö, Lund, Helsingborg (port city) and Kristianstad, but also two regional partners. The network has held 2 formal meetings, and arranged a workshop at a large conference regarding circular economy now in May. Two more meetings are planned for June and September, and also a workshop that will also include the Malmö specific network. The Swedish Initiative for Industrial Symbiosis The Swedish Initiative for Industrial Symbiosis (SIIS) is a concept formulated and led by Linköping University. The idea is to gather actors from all of Sweden to share knowledge, good examples and raise awareness around industrial symbiosis to benefit the development. At this point there are 21 formal partners, which include municipalities, private companies of different character, public authorities, financiers, universities and research institutes. The first meeting was held in March 2015, the second in January 2016 and the third is planned for June 2016. Performance indicator 3: At least 40 ports and port authorities all over Europe are informed on the bioenergy resource symbiosis benefits by the end of the project The target has been met. The following table summarizes the ports and port authorities in Europe informed about the EPIC2020 project and its achievements. Apart from European ports, port authorities in other parts of the world (Singapore, Mauritius, New Zealand) have been informed as well.

Table 9: List of ports and port authorities informed about EPIC2020 activities

# Port / Port Authority Means of communication

1 Amsterdam (Netherlands) Conference arranged by City of Malmö in Sweden, conference and workshop in Amsterdam, mail correspondence. Planned study visit Sep 2016.

2 Koper (Slovenia) Workshop with NAPA ports (North Adriatic Ports Association), June 2015

3 Rijeka (Croatia) Workshop with NAPA ports (North Adriatic Ports Association), June 2015

4 Norrköping (Sweden) Joint 1½ day meeting in Norrköping to discuss industrial

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symbiosis and port/city development. Participant at Symcity, and plans for further meetings.

5 Rostock (Germany)

Workshop with EUROPORTs-port Handling Company Luxembuorg-Branch Rostock , 16.05.2015 Workshop with HERO Hafenentwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock (port authority of Rostock) June 2015 Integration of Fright Port of Rostock (RFH) as associated Partner, spring 2015

6 Venice (Italy) Workshop with NAPA ports (North Adriatic Ports Association), June 2015

7 Trieste (Italy) Workshop with NAPA ports (North Adriatic Ports Association), June 2015

8 Mesologgi (Greece) Direct contact with AKARPORT. Verified interest to combines efforts with Astakos port to promote bioenergy symbiosis

9 Patra (Greece) Direct contact with AKARPORT

10 Igoumenitsa (Greece) Direct contact with AKARPORT

11 Autorità Portuale di Savona (Italy) Member of Mantova network

12 Genova (Italy) Member of Mantova network

13 Klaipeda (Lithuania) Former partner, well aware of project and receiver of results.

14 Straubing (Germany) BERST project partner, communication through the joint conference organized in Athens, May 2015

15 Preveza (Greece) Direct contact with AKARPORT

16 Kalundborg (Denmark) Project together with Malmö, participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

17 Copenhagen (Denmark) Participation directly in activities and events in Malmö, represented at two national conferences and three transnational meetings.

18 Riga (Latvia) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

19 Hamburg (Germany) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

20 Gibraltar (UK) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

21 Ghent (Belgium) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

22 French Riviera Ports (France) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

23 Liepaja (Latvia) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

24 Odense (Denmark) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

25 Singapore (Singapore) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

26 Mauritius (Mauritius) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

27 Piraeus (Greece) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

28 Cagliari (Italy) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was

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presented in plenum.

29 Dubrovnic (Croatia) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

30 Melilla (Spain) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

31 Klang (Malaysia) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

32 Aalborg (Denmark) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

33 Aarhus (Denmark) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

34 Antwerp (Belgium) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

35 Bergen (Norway) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

36 Bodø (Norway) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

37 Dover (UK) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

38 Esbjerg (Denmark) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

39 Gothenburg (Sweden) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

40 Helsinki (Finland) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

41 Kokkola (Finland) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

42 Kristriansand (Norway) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

43 Longyearbyen (Norway) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

44 Oslo (Norway) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

45 Roenne (Denmark) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

46 Rotterdam (Netherlands) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum. Study visit planned in Sep 2016.

47 Strasbourg (France) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

48 Tallinn (Estonia) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

49 Trelleborg (Sweden) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

50 Vigo (Spain) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

51 Stockholm (Sweden) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

52 Thessaloniki (Greece) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

53 Aukland (New Zealand) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was

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presented in plenum.

54 Quebec (Canada) Participant at Green Port Congress where EPIC was presented in plenum.

Performance indicator 4: At least 300 stakeholders within target groups all over Europe informed on the bioenergy resource symbiosis benefits by the end of the project The target has been made. Apart from the “passive” dissemination channels (e.g. website), and the organization of local / regional networks, the EPIC2020 have been very active in promoting the project, its activities and results in various conferences and workshops. A non-exclusive list is presented below, which clearly indicates that more than 300 stakeholders have been informed about the bioenergy resource symbiosis concept and its benefits.

Table 10: Indicative events targeting external stakeholders

Name of event Type of event Date Location Number of

participants

Meeting Point Urban Magma International conference

18-19/03/2015

Malmö 166

Skånes Energy Summit Conference 17/6/2015 Malmö 299

Green Port Congress International conference

6-9/10/2015

Malmö 184

SymCity Conference Conference 27-

28/1/2016 Norrköping 90

National conference/transnational

network meeting

Conference meeting

26/5/2015 Athens 45

Green Chemistry Cluster launch event of Lombardy

region Conference 15/10/2014

Chamber of Commerce of

Mantova n/a

Logistikinitiative Stakeholder

network meeting 10/12/14 Rostock 45

IGD Fraunhofer Transnational

network meeting 28/04/15 Rostock IGD 49

Baltic Logistic Conference 2015 (BLC 2015)

National conference and

transnational network meeting

06/10/15 Rostock

Neptun Hotel 100

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Name of event Type of event Date Location Number of

participants

Secretay of State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

National conference and

transnational network meeting

08/12/15 Schwerin 100

Total 1,078

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