DANUBENERGY: THE EUROPEAN TOUR OF THE PROJECT AND 'ARRIVING AT MANTUA
Four workshops and an in-depth seminar will be free events that will crown the Italian leg of BlueCONRAD:
the demonstration mobile prototype of European project DANUBENERGY funded by the CENTRAL EUROPE
programme and applied to the protected natural areas of the Danube plain and to the other European
rivers including the Po.
Canoe Camp will be the venue provided by AGIRE for operations of the demonstration project proposal
DANUBENERGY: to inspire conservation of natural habitats through the creation of a new high efficiency
system for the use of cuttings management of these areas called IFBB (Integrated generation of Fuel and
Biogas from Biomass).
The project, coordinated by the Austrian Energy Agency of the Regions and conducted in Italy by the
European Energy Agency AGIRE, will be active for 30 months in many parts of Central Europe where local
partners have initiated research activities on specific potential of biomass available in protected natural
areas: the purpose of the project is to co-operate territorially to identify the most efficient use of these bioresources in order to produce sustainable energy while providing economic resources for the preservation
of the same habitat. The research will be conducted through the collection and comparison of rates of
biomass from the different partner regions to be devoted to experimentation and analysis in a homologous
plant, but at large-scale, already present in Baden Baden in Germany to the western border with France.
Hence, within the design life of the partner regions will receive specific data on biomass and sent on their
energy potential, as well as to initiate evaluations on the possibility of management of the areas supported
by the technology benefits IFBB.
Mantua, through DANUBENERGY, has the opportunity to become aware of a sustainable way to use so
available riparian biomass those that constitute today for the managing bodies a large weight on its
financial statements. The common reed, sedge, the Arundo donax, if it were once a great resource for the
local economy linked, for example for its use in construction, for use in a packing case or artisans in
strawing chairs, today, following the reduction or disappearance of these activities, these cuttings have
become a disposal problem, moreover aggravated by the cost of collection and disposal. Not to mention
that often this is sometimes accompanied by episodes of unauthorized burning which generate heavy
consequences on the sustainability of the reserves on the nesting birds and in general on wildlife.
The events of DANUBENERGY therefore will provide to protected areas managers, administrators of
government agencies, enterprises, and to all the stakeholders, a window of knowledge about a scenario of
sustainable management of these bio-resources as benefit of the preservation of natural areas instead
increasingly threatened done by climate change.
For more information: European Agency for Energy ACT - danubenergy@agirenet.it
DANUBENERGY Events at Canoe Camp, Strada Cipata 3, 46100 Mantua:
May 16: Workshop No. 1 10-12 h or Workshop No. 2 15-17 h
The laboratories, particularly aimed at administrators and technical managers in bodies of
protected areas, agronomists and plant engineers of biogas, aim to provide concrete evidence
of feasibility with respect to the IFBB methodology for the creation of a bio-energy supply
chain to support the preservation of habitats. Participation is free of charge under registration
to the email address danubenergy@agirenet.it
21 May: Conference "The European proposal for a sustainable bioenergy supply chain applicable to the
management of biomass in protected wetlands: the cooperation project Danubernergy" h 9-13
- Conference Room at Navy League Center of Canoe Camp; The conference seeks to provide an
answer the ability to design a bio-energy industry to Atere of ordinary operations for the
protection of protected natural areas, where it is not permitted 's intense agricultural activity
but it is also necessary to manage human resources in order to E NVIRONMENTAL of habitat
preservation. Participation is free of charge after registration at danubenergy@agirenet.it
email address;
May 30: Workshop n ° 3 h or 10-12 h 15-17 Workshop No. 4
The laboratories, particularly aimed at administrators and technical managers in bodies of
protected areas, agronomists and plant engineers of biogas, aim to provide concrete evidence
of feasibility with respect to the IFBB methodology for the creation of a bio-energy supply
chain to support the preservation of habitats. Participation is free of charge under registration
to the email address danubenergy@agirenet.it