LINKING HIGH TECH AND HUMAN TOUCH SUSTAINABILITY AND BIOMASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE GREEN ENERGY INITIATIVE MEETING 27 JUNE 2012 ANNEMARIJE KOOIJMAN

 Route 14: building experience with multidisciplinary cooperation in the field of biomass  UT expertise, opportunities for your own research?  Which organisation forms would trigger you and support you in setting up and building up multidisciplinary research in the field of biomass (GEI)? 20/9/15 2 LINKING HIGH-TECH AND HUMAN TOUCH

Interfaculty team: Sascha Kersten (TNW), Joy Clancy (MB), Devrim Yazan (MB), Annemarije Kooijman (TNW), team members MB, TNW, CTW, ITC  Development of a tool for the biofuels industry that can be used to make pro-active decisions: environmental, social, economic sustainability  Proposal submitted: Bioenergy Supply Chain Integration (BioSCinT)- overcoming market barriers for second generation biomass  Overview of frameworks and tools for the assessment of sustainability of biomass  Value chain analysis of bagasse  Biomass production from perspective of smallholder farmers  Identification of opportunities at University of Twente for multidisciplinary cooperation in the field of biomass 20/9/15 3 ROUTE 14 BIOMASS PLATFORM

Biomass: production feedstock, processing, transport, use of product Social Science research: impacts of feedstock production, decisionmaking in chain, governance of chain and energy transition Technical research: which feedstocks, viability and efficiency of production and use, scale of operation 20/9/15 4 MULTIDISCIPLINARY COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF BIOMASS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Feedstock Social: employment, food prices Technical/economic: supply logistics, Environmental: biodiversity, GHG emission Pretreatment Social: location and organisation Technical: scale of technology, need for maintenance Environment/ economic: logistics, efficiency Refinery Technical; Efficiency of conversion Environmental: emissions, possibility to use all material streams Use (eg transport, heat) Technical; Efficiency of conversion Environmental: emissions, possibility to use all material streams MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES IN AND AROUND BIOMASS CHAINS 5 Governance of direction(s) and pace distribution of impacts Choices and structures in the chain

Level:  Product, process, feedstock, value chain, policy or strategy, region, business. Purpose:  Certification, comparison for business internal choice, comparison for business external information (marketing or customer/ actor influence), identification of fields of improvement. Tools and instruments:  LCA, process assessment (ISO), input output modelling, scenarios, analysis of interests or convictions of stakeholders, economic modelling, game theory etc. 6 ASSESSING OR DISCUSSING SUSTAINABILITY

 Production process: TNW, CTW  Green chemistry: TNW  LCA analysis (waterfootprint): CTW  governance models, niche management, support of implementation process: MB /IGS  Study of social issues, development: MB  Economic and business modelling, logistics: MB, CTW  Geo-information science, measuring of vegetation: ITC  Philosophy of society -technology interaction; ethics, understanding processes of societal transformation: Behavioural Science  Research methods for social data gathering and analysis  Sector structures, networks, political influence  Green Energy Initiative  Sustainable campus 20/9/15 7 RELEVANT EXPERTISE AT UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

 Multiple disciplines, multiple researchers  Starting point: should each be expert in their own field of expertise or support generalists?  Barriers to multidisciplinary research  different scientific approaches,  different target groups (industry, government, science) - implications for expected outputs, objectives of research, practical use  How to define an innovative research topic?  How to create synergy?  How to build up a field of multidisciplinary expertise? 20/9/15 8 MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

 Starting point: ‘outward’ looking experts with multidisciplinary experience define topics and moderate synergy AND/OR  Calls for proposals define topics, synergy is not planned but facilitated through organised discussion  Small/ad hoc: joint education/PhD/ postdoc supervision and small projects facilitate growth of multidisciplinary expertise and shared language between disciplines AND/OR  Structure for expertise: one UT approach as basis for linking research 20/9/15 9 BUILDING UP A STRUCTURAL MULTIDISCPLINARY FIELD OF EXPERTISE ORGANISATION FORMS

 Which research questions in the field of biomass are relevant for yourself and your contacts (especially stakeholders in the chain)?  Which expertise do you have/which fields of expertise would you like to link to with regards to sustainability (of biomass)?  Which organisation forms would trigger and support you?  20/9/15 10 ARE YOU INTERESTED?