2016-08-01

MCTIC seeks partnerships for biofuel production projects in Europe

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In June, a mission conducted by the Ministério de Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicações (MCTIC) [Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications] to Europe prospected partnerships for the “Brazil-European Union Joint Call on Lignocellulosic Biofuels”, whose goal is to foster the production of this type of fuel produced with agricultural waste.

Gustavo de Lima Ramos, Coordinator for Energy Development Actions at MCTIC, explained that the participants “discussed how European institutions working on similar research lines could cooperate with their Brazilian counterparts, as they had expertise in the same areas”.

Eduardo Soriano Lousada, General Coordinator for Sector Technologies, and Rafael Silva Menezes, Coordinator for Energy Development Actions, also participated in the mission, held in the context of the 8^th Call of the European Union-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Project.

In Salamanca, in Spain, during the 2016 America Biolbero Conference, Eduardo Soriano presented the main actions carried out by the General Coordination for Sector Technologies in the field of energy and the possible cooperation between Brazil and the European Union. Other countries in the Americas would also participate in these efforts. The delegates also visited the Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC) [Catalonia Institute for Energy Research], in Barcelona. In Portugal, the delegates also visited the Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG) [National Laboratory of Energy and Geology], with headquarters in Lisbon.

 

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