The conference will be organised by the Austrian Biomass Association together with the Klima- and Energiefonds, the Styrian Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, BIOENERGY 2020+ GmbH and in cooperation with the Messe Graz.

The conference aims at providing an up-to-date overview of the latest political, economic and technological developments, covering the entire range of bioenergy issues:
resource availability, raw material supply, conversion technologies (heating, cooling, electricity and transportation fuels), integration in the energy system, industrial applications, financing of bioenergy projects, environmental impacts and market development as well as needs for political action.

Abstracts are invited on the following topics:
* Strategies, legislation, interrelation between agricultural, energy and ecological policy
* Financing instruments and support schemes
* Biomass potentials (agriculture and forestry, by-products, waste), markets and market research
* Biomass mobilisation and production  pre-treatment – organisation, technology, costs and quality standards (monitoring and quality assessment)
* Heat, cooling, electricity and transportation fuel from biomass and biogas / R&D, technological innovations, organisation models, costs and quality standards
* Bioenergy for industry and energy utilities
* Information, communication, dissemination

Deadline for submitting abstracts: 4th June 2010

How to prepare the abstracts
* Abstracts should include a cover page with: title, the names and full addresses of all authors (full name, title, company/organisation, address, phone/fax/e-mail)
* Abstracts should be one page in length and written in English or German
* The abstracts will be selected by the Scientific Committee and announced by 15 July.

Download call for papers (2721 kb, pdf)
 
Please send your abstract as a Word document by e-mail to: office@biomasseverband.at.

More Information and a Draft Program can be found under http://www.biomasseverband.at/biomasse?cid=41146