European Union - Canada Workshop on
"Biorefineries: Biofuels & Bioproducts"
15-18 June 2009 - Pisa - Italy
University of Pisa
Facoltà di Ingegneria
Via Diotisalvi, 2
EU-Canada Workshop Agenda - download
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Chair: Prof. Andrea Lazzeri (University of Pisa)
Welcome address
Prof. Paolo Miccoli (pro-Rettore Universita di Pisa)
Industrial Bioproducts-Fuelling Canada’s Farm Future
Dr. Stephan Morgan Jones (ABIP)
Twinning as a tool of EC-Canada cooperation EC view
on bioproducts and research tools (FP7)
Dr. Alfredo Aguilar (EC)
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:20 Other Canadian and Research programmes
Chair: Dr. Alfredo Aguilar (EC)
Genome Canada and Regional Centres
Dr. Reno Pontarollo (Genome Priarie)
11:20-12:30 Project presentations
Co-chair: Dr. Piero Venturi (EC) and Dr. Benoit Girad (ABIP)
Every presentation should take place 10 minutes,
every two presentations we can have 5 minutes for questions
4FCROPS (EU)
Dr. Efi Alexopoulou
Sustainable Cropping System Platforms for Biodiesel Feedstock
Quantity and Quality (Canada)
Dr. Neil Harker
EU-Pearls (EU)
Dr. Hans Mooibroek
Cellulosic Biofuels Network (Canada)
Dr. Serge Laberge
Forbioplast (EU)
Prof. Bela Pukanszky
The Feed Opportunties from the Biofuels Industries (Canada)
Dr. Colleen Christensen
AgFoodTrade (EU)
Dr. Jean-Christophe Bureau
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:30 European-Canadian Research programmes
Co-chair: Dr. Sebastien Crepieux (EU) and Dr. Benoit Girard (ABIP)
Energypoplar (EU)
Dr. Gail Taylor
The Natural Fibres for the Green Economy (Canada)
Dr. Denis Rho
BioPotato (Canada)
Dr. Yvan Pelletier
ICON (EU)
Dr. Per Holvander
Global-bio-pact (EU)
Dr. Rainer Janssen
Creating Pulse “Cropportunities” Using Genomics (CPuC) (Canada)
Dr. Reno Pontarollo
15:15–15:30 Coffee-break
Crops2Industry (EU)
Dr. Myrsini Christou
Integrated Genomics for Improved Canola Performance
(IGICP) (Canada)
Dr. Reno Pontarollo
AgroCos (EU)
Dr. Nikolas Fokialakis
Total utilisation flax genomics (Canada)
Dr. Scott Duguid
Noveltree (EU)
Dr. Jean-Charles Leple
Designing Brassica for tomorrow’s markets (Canada)
Dr Randall Weselake
AENEAS (EU)
Dr. Jose Gutierrez-Marcos
Wednesday 17 June 2009
17:10-17:30 Questions and answers
Wrap-up of the day
Chair: Dr. Stephen Morgan Jones (ABIP)
Wednesday 17 June 2009
09:00-09:15 Results of the previous day, what is going to happen,
programme of the morning
Chair: Dr. Piero Venturi (EC) and Dr. Benoit Girad (ABIP)
09:15-10:30 Bilateral meetings between Canadians and European
Coordinators (1st part)
Objective - Indentify twinning opportunities: topic, participants,
organization, expected outcomes.
Concrete situations must be identified.
10:30-10:50 Coffee-break
10:50-12:00 Bilateral meetings between Canadians and European Coordinators
(2nd part)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Presentation of the main results provided by the coordinators
(workshop, invitations, etc.)
Discussion – questions & comments
Chair: Dr. Piero Venturi (EC) and Dr. Benoit Girard (ABIP)
Closure of the workshop
Chair: Dr. Alfredo Aguilar (EC) and Dr. Stephen Morgan Jones (ABIP)
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