Cooperation activities sprout out of the GBEP Bioenergy Weeks.

The GBEP Activity Group 3 has among its main objectives that of fostering the exchange of skills and technologies concerning bioenergy production and use in a sustainable manner. The Group pursues this goal through bilateral and multilateral collaboration. The Bioenergy Weeks organized so far in Latin America, Africa and Asia produced some concrete collaboration among participants in the events, proving the effectiveness of these kind of events.

Further to its participation in the 2nd GBEP Bioenergy Week, held in Mozambique in 2014, Brazilian CIBiogás-ER organized a Course on Renewable Energies with Focus on Biogas, in distance education mode. The Course promotes the participation, interaction and experiences’ exchange of students from different countries. Its content was produced by experts and is being constantly updated, aiming to train professionals to work and deal biogas and biomethane energy issues. The course, of a duration of 110 hours along 3 months, has so far offered 25 sessions, qualifying 632 students from 10 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Vert, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mozambique, Paraguay and Peru. An English version of the training has recently been published, and is expected to be replicated soon in Egypt and probably also in Asia following the 3rd GBEP Bioenergy week.

The International Centre for Renewable-Energy Biogas / CIBiogás-ER is a scientific, technological and innovation centre made up of 16 institutions that develop and / or support projects related to renewable energy and has a biogas lab, with 11 national units demonstration biogas energy, full scale and 1 international unit demonstration renewable energy. Its main objective is to support the development of public policies that regulate and encourage the use of biogas in Latin America and the Caribbean, and develop strategies related to the generation of knowledge and technology transfer.

Furthermore, the last edition of the Bioenergy Week last May in Medan (Indonesia) saw the participation of the Agricultural Engineering Research Unit of the Italian Agricultural Research Council (CRA ING). Their experience on new logistic systems for biomass production stimulated an interesting cooperation with the Philippine Sugar Regulatory Administration, with the aim of mechanizing farm activities of the sugarcane industry in the Philippines. This cooperation will ultimately lead to improve Philippines' sugarcane industry logistics, to minimize its post harvest losses and to address its labour shortage problems.

More information on CIBiogasER can be found here
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