Bioeconomy

Austria`s Mühlviertel region developed an organic brand as a marketing tool to promote local producers, suppliers and tourism.

An association used EAFRD funding to help preserve chestnut woods in Italy and boost growers’ income by buying new equipment and coordinating the supply chain. 

Testing the transferability of landscape management to other Natura 2000 sites.

A regional cooperative chain for biomass was established to respond to the increasing demand for woodchip.

An olive oil mill enterprise in collaboration with a university, the regional chamber of commerce, machinery companies, and others, created a partnership to test an innovative filtering prototype for olive oil production.

A cork producing business confronted high production costs due to increasing cost of raw materials. To tackle this the company used EAFRD support to restore its own forest and improve its productivity.

In an area where cattle breeding is predominent, LEADER funding helped explore the potentials of producing biogas from manure produced in the farms.

A Romanian company contructed of a modern dairy plant with a renewable energy production unit that uses the by-products of milk production.

A biofuel production and packaging line was established in an olive growing region of Greece. The waste residues are used to produce biofuel (PELLET) offering considerable economic and environmental benefits. 

Sustainable construction of buildings by using of innovative materials (hemp).