FoSBE - Research Environment for Circular Forest-based Bioeconomy
Karlstad University has received support from the Swedish Agency for Growth (Tillväxtverket) to build a research environment for circular forest-based bioeconomy, in close cooperation with the region's small and medium-sized enterprises. The research environment is Pro2BE - Processes and products for a circular bioeconomy. The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund och Region Värmland.
The purpose is to increase the skills of small and medium-sized enterprises by making the active in research and innovation projects.
Goal for the Project
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Develop new and existing test bed environments in collaboration with small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Develop process steps, system design and materials in collaboration with small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Increase the university's capacity to research together with small and medium-sized enterprises and towards a nationally leading research environment in forest-based bioeconomics.
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Increase the number of small and medium-sized enterprises active in research activities and projects.
Effects to Reach
The long term effect of the project is to lay a foundation for a nationally leading and internationally recognized research environment for forest-based bioeconomy.
Research
Focus in the project will be around these research area:
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Recovery of residual flows and new bio-based products
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Bio-based food packaging for sustainable development
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Modeling and system optimization for forest-based process engineering
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Management and management of innovation work
Test Beds
The definition of a test bed environment is a physical or a virtual environment where different actors may meet to enable the development of new products, services or processes. There must exist some openness in regards to access to results and generated knowledge. The environment must exist during a longer period and it must be possible to use the environment to demonstrate more the oneproduct or oneprocess.
Time Plan
The project period is from January 2017 to April 2020.
Cooperations
Drinor AB
Emerging Cooking Solutions Sweden AB
Participating Researchers
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Anthony Anukam, Postdoc in Environment and Energy Systems
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Jonas Berghel, Associate Professor in Environment and Energy Systems
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Stefan Frodeson, Lecturer in Environment and Energy Systems
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Ebrahim Gozali, Postdoc in Chemical Engineering
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Karin Granström, Associate Professor in Environment and Energy Systems
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Christer Gustavsson, Senior Lecturer in Environment and Energy Systems
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Gunnar Henriksson, Guest Professor in Chemical Engineerin
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Mikael Johnsson, Senior Lecturer i Business Management
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Lars Järnström, Professor in Chemical Engineering
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Magnus Lestelius, Professor in Chemical Engineering
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Ali Mohammadi, Postdoc in Environment and Energy Systems
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Lars Nilsson, Professor in Environment and Energy Systems
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Björn Sjöstrand, Doctoral student in Chemical Engineering
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Jörgen Samuelsson, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
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Maria Sandberg, Senior Lecturer in Environment and Energy Systems
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Martyna Zywalewska, Project Assistant in Environment and Energy Systems
Steering Group
The steering group comprises internal representativs at Karlstad University and the task is to steer the operative progress within the project.
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Karin Granström, Associante Professor in Environment and Energy Systems, and Project manager
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Gunilla Carlsson Kvarnlöf, Chair at the Department of Engineering and Chemical Sciences
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Magnus Lestelius, Professor in Chemical Engineering, and Development Manager for Pro2BE
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Mikael Johnsson, Senior lecturer in Business Administration, and researcher at Service Research Center
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Jonas Berghel, Associate Professor in Environment and Energy Systems
Referens Group
The task of the referens group is to give sound advice on how to prioritise within the research environment, both short term and long term, give suggestions on how to maximize the impact of the environment within available resources and make a fair assessment of strengths, weaknesses and standing of the environment.
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Maria Hollander, CEO Paper Province, Cluster in forestbased bioeconomy
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Dag Hallén, Strategist at Region Värmland
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Marga Sandström, Director of environment and laboratories at Stora Enso Skoghall Mill
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Thad Maloney, Professor at Aalto University
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Wolfgang Stelte, Project Manager at Danish Technical University
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Daniel Stenborg, Innovation Manager for Business Collaboration at Kristinehamn Municipality