Status of bioeconomy in Hungary: general introduction and insight into Climate-KIC activities

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1 Status of bioeconomy in Hungary: general introduction and insight into Climate-KIC activities Miklós Gyalai-Korpos, PhD Bratislava, 27 March 2015 Climate-KIC 1

2 About Climate-KIC Climate-KIC is Europe s largest public-private partnership addressing climate change Vision: providing the people, products and leadership to address the challenge of global climate change Mission: creating opportunities for innovators to address climate change and shape the world s next economy. A community of more than 250 partners with a toolkit for promoting innovation, education and entrepreneurship: An innovation pipeline: sheltered innovation Partners on each corner of the knowledge pyramind: Innovation push with demand pull Mobility programs/phd/msc courses Start-ups incubation Climate-KIC

3 About Climate-KIC Climate-KIC

4 Bioeconomy potential in Central Europe Resources Climate-KIC 4

5 Biomass potential Agricultural residues Monforti et al. (2013) : available amount of straws of eight crops is 6.3 million tonnes ( basis) for Hungary. 46% of produced residues was found sustainably collectable of which 96% is available considering competing uses. Other sources indicate even more up to 9.5 million tonnes annually on dry weight basis. Forestry potential Marginal areas for energy crops Monforti, F.; Bodis, K.; Scarlat, N. & Dallemand, J-F. (2013) The possible contribution of agricultural crop residues to renewable energy targets in Europe: A spatially explicit study, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 19: Climate-KIC 5

6 Biomass potential Gyalai-Korpos, M., Barta, Z., Sipos, B., Réczey, K. (2008) Looking for feedstock - bioethanol potential in Hungary. 16th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, valencia Climate-KIC 6

7 Landscape analysis Climate-KIC: The future landscapes of Bioeconomy: Hungary Aims of the study were: to deliver general overview on the bioeconomy to introduce the relevant Hungarian stakeholders to map the potentials for further collaboration with special regards to Climate KIC projects to provide on-hand experiences of stakeholders on the barriers and potential Methodology: extensive literature/web search and online interviews Study is available at: Climate-KIC 7

8 Landscape analysis What are the main opportunities for Hungary to become competitive in the European bioeconomy? Study is available at: Climate-KIC 8

9 Danube Region Biomass Action Plan Approval by the PA 2 Steering Group in December 2012; Work started in January 2013; Joint Declaration on biomass sustainability in June 2013: New EU-wide obligatory sustainability criteria would unavoidably create additional administration and costs especially for the EU producers, without any additional benefit for the environment, thus creating market distortion and disadvantage in competition for the producers of the Member States The study was finalised in February 2014: Action_Plan_ pdf PA2 was invited to present the results of DRBAP: March 2014, Timisoara - 4motors conference; May 2014, Trieste - Danube Inco.NET meeting; June 2014, Vienna JRC Scientific Support to the DR conference; November 2014, Vienna 4th Danube Region Business Forum; Climate-KIC 9

10 DANUBIOM Proposal Biomass workshop was organised with nearly 30 institutions from 7 DRS countries at November 2014 in Budapest; The project concept is now finalised & the project consortium was formed with 15 project partners, the lead partner is Szent István University. The concrete outputs of the project: Establishing a bioenergy statistical data base; Creating a sustainability assessment tool; Characterising sustainable value chains; Demonstrating ready-to-use biomass based alternatives on demonstration sites; Providing up-to-date planning practices; Policy analysis and proposal for an adequate bioenergy policy amendment; Technology development for standardised feedstock production, and innovations for improving environmental performance and energy efficiency. Climate-KIC 10

11 3 rd European Biorefining Training School The concept of the school has been developed and trademarked by three world class research institutes: National University of Athens of Greece, Wageningen University Research of the Netherlands and INRA of France. Hungarian organizer was PANNON Pro Innovations Ltd. History so far: 1st in 2011, France 2nd in 2012, The Netherlands 2014: First time under the Climate-KIC umbrella 7-10 July, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary Climate-KIC

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13 How to develop this potential? Interventions needed Climate-KIC 13

14 Industrial experience Dario Giordano, BioChemtex Giordano G. (2014) Innovative approach to the Green Chemistry: Biomass based Solution. 3rd European Biorefining Trainins School, Budapest Climate-KIC 14

15 The challenge How to transform an entire supply chain? Or create a new? System level challenge, many stakeholders, interdependent relations, competing interests what else? Land use Biomass Logistics Conversion Market Is there really extra land? Food vs. fuel? Economy of sust practices? Is there a will from farmers? How to motivate them? Case of byproducts? Scale? Storage? All year supply? Stable and longterm prices? Are the tech options ready? How to use existing infrastruc tures? Who is willing to pay and for what? What are the niches? General framework: Political, Economic, Socio-Cultural and Technological factors (PEST analysis) Climate-KIC

16 Interventions Build stakeholder consensus on how best to develop bioeconomy Build investor confidence in the bioeconomy Develop regional networks or clusters Stimulate industrial symbiosis - sharing of resources Create conditions for niche markets Raise public awareness of bio-based products Boost engagement with policy makers Promote demonstration of technologies and products Increase access to pilot facilities for Start-up s/sme s Further academia to business collaboration Climate-KIC

17 Climate-KIC Biohorizons: Horizon Scanning the Bioeconomy Interventions to best support Bioeconomy transition? What is the current condition of innovation within the bioeconomy? What are the key factors influencing success/failure? What are the strengths and weaknesses? What are regional differences? Are there exemplars of best practice? Where will business innovation have the greatest impact on climate change mitigation/adaptation and economic growth? Partners from the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Hungary main focus on these countries. Tool: Maximum difference scaling (MaxDiff) where survey respondents are shown a set of the possible items and are asked to indicate the best and worst items. Between May November 2014, Biohorizons survey was viewed over 1130 times worldwide and received nearly 500 credible responses. A good stakeholder balance was achieved: both academic and policy 28%, businesses 45%. Climate-KIC 17

18 Results of the survey Filter results by country, sector and TIS category. Climate-KIC 18

19 Most important interventions: Hungarian vs. all answers Delta 1,91 0,85 1,92 1,65 1,17 1,53 2,47 1,12 0,61 0,05 2,04 0,65 0,60 1,40 0,20 1,60 0,50 0,34 0,04 1,22 0,50 1,19 2,04 1,24 Climate-KIC 19

20 Comparision of sectors Interventions identified as most important to Hungary Bioeconomy Stakeholders Climate-KIC 20

21 Landscape analysis What are the main barriers for Hungary to become competitive in the European bioeconomy? Study is available at: Climate-KIC 21

22 Landscape analysis For bigger diagrams use a blank page Climate-KIC 22

23 Example 1 Organica Water global provider of innovative solutions for the treatment and recycling of wastewater Organica Food Chain Reactor (FCR) utilizes a fixed-bed biofilm growing on both natural and engineered root structures, all in a fully-enclosed, odourless, greenhouse facility results: reduced physical and zero psychological footprint, lower operational and infrastructure costs Climate-KIC 23

24 Example 2 Climate-KIC Microalgae Biorefinery 2.0 Partners from the Netherlands, France, Spain and Hungary both supply and demand side of innovation. Industrial partner Budapest Sewage Works Pte Ltd. giving place to piloting the solution. Aim: market algae-based product lines and create a technology case for WWTPs in order to: remove nutrients, enhance biogas yields, reduce GHG emission, build green image Transition to bioeconomy by integrating into existing value chain (B2B) and turning the excess amount of biomass into value added compounds. Climate-KIC 24

25 Conclusions Interventions needed to develop bioeconomy Access to financing: large pot of money is needed for significant infrastructure investments but focus also on developing business models to leverage more funding Local knowledge: establish new supply chains and negotiate with farmers to secure feedstock supply for long term operation and/or practice industrial symbiosis approaches to integrate into existing industries (B2B) Link to agriculture: price, quality (purity, size, water content ), long-term and stable (all-year round) supply of feedstock plus features of logistics (distance, scale, storage) Industry involvement: B2B cooperation in order to learn the market for bio-based products, overcome knowledge gaps and create supply chains Policy framework: provide vision and realize societal benefits Dynamics along the supply chain needs to be understood impact on both up and downstream, and on other chains Tools to evaluate options and convey to stakeholders for win-win situations: by means of legal framework (for example CAP) and technology/feedstock Climate-KIC 25

26 Miklós Gyalai-Korpos, PhD Climate-KIC Central Hungary RIC PANNON Pro Innovations Ltd. Climate-KIC

27 Biohorizons: Interventions identified as most important to Hungary Stakeholders (n32) Business Academia Policy Climate-KIC