1. Supervisory Board All scientist in charge + external representatives of ER/ESR Coordinator (NTUA) EU Marie Curie Programme Project Officer Recruitement and career management Group (UoS) PhD and Post-docs training, secondments Group (UoS) Dissemination, exploitation transfert of knowledge Group (WUR) Network events Group (summer school and workshop) (CERTH) Network Administrator (NTUA) R&D Group (NTUA)

2. Value chain networks, each composed of a number of plants and logistic subsystems Individual processes, each producing one or several major final products or intermediate products, e.g. pyrolysis plant, gasification plant, bioethanol plant, etc.. Individual pieces of equipment, e.g. fermenter, gasifier, PBR, digester, etc. Equipment compartments, e.g. CO2-spurging and light-supply sections in a PBR, liquid phase and gas phase in a digester, etc. Levels of system decomposition Levels of modelling and decision making Required model granularity Fine Coarse Level 3: Screening processing paths and designing value chain networks Level 2b: Designing integrated processes Level 2a: Designing intensified equipment Level 1: Modelling to prepare building blocks for model-based decision making LCA integrated network Renewable engineering validation, evaluation, and on-site training Systems integration and software develop- ment WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6

3. 1. NTUA Process synthesis, Optimization, Process design, Modelling 1. NTUA Process synthesis, Optimization, Process design, Modelling 2. EPFL Process integration Energy systems design and engineering Industrial ecology 2. EPFL Process integration Energy systems design and engineering Industrial ecology 3. Imperial Multiscale modelling techniques Process and energy systems engineering 3. Imperial Multiscale modelling techniques Process and energy systems engineering 4. DTU Computer aided method tools, Sustainable process, Network design, Multiscale modelling 4. DTU Computer aided method tools, Sustainable process, Network design, Multiscale modelling 5. CERTH Improved and integrated exploitation of solid/alternative fuel and their by-products 5. CERTH Improved and integrated exploitation of solid/alternative fuel and their by-products 6.UoS Biorefining Systems Approaches, Systems & Multiscale Modelling, Knowledge Modelling 6.UoS Biorefining Systems Approaches, Systems & Multiscale Modelling, Knowledge Modelling HELECTOR Mechanical Biological Treatment Biomass reactor design Biomass pyrolysis/gasification reactors 8. CIMV Biorefining Technology 9. QUANTIS Life cycle assessment 7. WUR Production of bio-energy, biobased chemicals & sustainable industrial raw material 7. WUR Production of bio-energy, biobased chemicals & sustainable industrial raw material BE2020 Sustainable biomass supply chain concepts, Biomass fuel characterization, Biomass combustion technology 10. BPF Life Sciences and Materials Sciences (alternative energy, bio- based materials, etc.) 11. ARKEMA Vegetable oil Biorefineries, and Economic Evaluation of Biorefinery units TUD Industrial biotechnology: Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Downstream Processing TUD Industrial biotechnology: Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Downstream Processing ETH Life cycle analysis/costing, sustainable process design, early design predictive modeling ETH Life cycle analysis/costing, sustainable process design, early design predictive modeling ASSOCIATED PARTNERS FULL PARTNERS

4. RENESENGRENESENG Academic – Industrial partnership for high quality researches in new systems tools and technologies for biorefinery design Common ECTS validation for all fellows Summer school and Workshops (WP7) Communication, Business, social skills 2 Academic + 1 Industrial secondments per fellow Preparation for spin-off creation (WP7) WP1 Modeling to prepare building blocksWP2 Process intensificat ion and integrationWP3 Design of value chain networksWP4 Life cycle cost, assess- ment and sustaina- bility WP5 Renewable engineering validation, evaluation, on-site training WP6 Systems integration and software development New genaration of researchers in Biorefinery and Biochemicals Systems Engineering Sciences for the needs of the emergent Biorefinery Industry New Multicenter PhD program (WP8) Project results spreading of excellence (WP9) High quality academic or industrial career Spin-offs creation (WP9)

5. Computing Mechanics Process Physics Chemistry Agronomy LCA Biochemistry Mathematics Modelling Informatics