INFORRM-IENICA - The interactive European network for industrial crops and their applications in the changing millennium/Industry network for renewable resources and materials

Abstract:
Markets for non-food crop products are emerging, but development is hampered by unco-ordinated efforts, lack of sector structure and produce specifications. End-users are often unaware of benefits of and opportunities for non-food products. There has been much 'science push' but market orientation is now the key to success in this sector. This project will characterise markets and specifications for primary produce as major targets, and ensure focused networking and information transfer to the whole industry. The project will disseminate information at meetings; assess potential for non-food crops in EU access/associated states and develop a database of products from plants; verify market size/specification for non-food crop products and disseminate on website and data sheets; extend existing non-food contacts; and measure uptake of non-food crops. INFORRM is one of two workstreams within the major INFORRM-IENICA project, a consolidation of two individual but complementary projects involving 27 countries. There is a vast range of activities and websites managed by organisations at National and EU levels, involving the many products, services and opportunities in the industrial, i.e. non-food crops, arena. These are not currently integrated nor is it easy to search across them. They present a complex and therefore uninviting picture to the many users who could benefit from these renewable resources and materials. INFORRM is the first strategic gateway to aid navigation, leading to the better use of this information and the integration of wider issues of sustainability and innovation. Existing activities, which will continue to provide a valuable part of this sector, will be highlighted, but none of these has been specifically designed to meet the future needs of a more diverse audience. A vision of the members of the permanent association, ERRMA, it will aid the development of a coherent pan-European framework for the industry.

Coordinator
Melvyn ASKEW
Central Science Laboratory-Alternative crops and biotechnology group
York
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel.: +44 1904 462309
Fax: +44 1904 4692029
E-mail: m.askew@csl.gov.uk

Partners

	Peter RUCKENBAUER Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding Wien AUSTRIA Tel.: +43 1476543300 Fax: +43 1476543342 E-mail: pruckenb@edvl.boku.ac.at
	André FALISSE Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux Gembloux BELGIUM Tel.: +32 81 62 21 40 Fax: +32 81 62 24 07 E-mail: falisse.a@fsagx.ac.be
	Dina AKKELIDOU Ministry of Health-State General Laboratory Nicosia CYPRUS Tel.: +357 23 050 76 Fax: +357 23 164 34 E-mail: sgl@spidernet.com.cy
	Oskar SCHMIDT Vysoka Skola Chemicko-Technologicka Praha 6 CZECH REPUBLIC Tel.: +420 2 2435 3827 Fax: +420 2 2435 3185 E-mail: oskar.schmidt@vscht.cz
	Finn REXEN Danish Directorate for Development Copenhagen K DENMARK Tel.: +45 33637482 E-mail: fr@strukdir.dk
	Kristiina DIGRYTE Ministry of Agriculture Tallinn ESTONIA Tel.: +37 26256140 Fax: +37 26256200 E-mail: kristiina@agri.ee
	Pirjo PELTONEN-SAINIO Agricultural Research Centre of Finland Jokioinen FINLAND Tel.: +358 341882451 Fax: +358 341882437 E-mail: pirjo.peltonen-sainio@mtt.fi
	Magali ROCHER Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie Angers FRANCE Tel.: +33 2 41204326 Fax: +33 2 41204301 E-mail: magali.rocher@ademe.fr
	Andreas SCHUETTE Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe E.V. Guelzow GERMANY Tel.: +49 384 369300 Fax: +49 384 36930102 E-mail: info@fnr.de
	Emmanuel KOUKIOS National Technical University of Athens Athens GREECE Tel.: +30 17723191 Fax: +30 17723163 E-mail: koukios@chemeng.ntua.gr
	György HORVAI Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest HUNGARY Tel.: +36 1 4632271 Fax: +36 1 4632270 E-mail: manyi@tuo.bme.hu
	Doris ALEXANDER The provost fellows and scholars of the college of the holy and undivided trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin Hereinafter Tcd. Dublin IRELAND Tel.: +353 16082412 Fax: +353 16798039
	David LEVY Agricultural Research Organization the Volcani Center Bet Dagan ISRAEL Tel.: +972 3 9683483 Fax: +972 3 9669642 E-mail: davidlvy@volcani.agri.gov.il
	Pietro CATIZONE Università di Bologna Bologna ITALY Tel.: +39 0512091542 Fax: +39 0512091511 E-mail: catizone@pop.agrsci.unibo.it
	Zenonas DABKEVICIUS Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture Kedainiai LITHUANIA Tel.: +370 5760857 Fax: +370 5760996 E-mail: lzi@lzi.lt
	Baukje VRIESWIJK Wageningen University Wageningen THE NETHERLANDS Tel.: +31 317482260 Fax: +31 317484292 E-mail: baukje.vrieswijk@alg.kb.wau.nl
	Ryszard KOZLOWSKI Institute of Natural Fibres Poznan POLAND Tel.: +48 61 8480061 Fax: +48 61 8417830 E-mail: netflax@iwn.inf.poznan.pl
	Fernando MARTINS Unlversidede de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro Vila Real PORTUGAL Tel.: +351 259350445 Fax: +351 259350327 E-mail: fmartins@utad.pt
	Misu MOSCOVICI National Institute for Chemical Pharmaceutical Research and Development Bucharest ROMANIA Tel.: +40 13 212116 Fax: +40 13 222917 E-mail: mmisu@cfarm.ncpri.ro
	Jose Luis VILLARIAS University of León-Natural Resources Institute León SPAIN Tel.: +34 987291833 Fax: +34 987291810 E-mail: diajvm@unileon.es
	Häkan HELLMO Svenska Lantmaennens Riksfoerbund Ekonomisk Foerenng Stockholm SWEDEN Tel.: +46 86574200 Fax: +46 86189012 E-mail: hakan.hellmo@slr.se
	Alfred BROENNIMANN Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture Zürich SWITZERLAND Tel.: +41 1 377 71 11 Fax: +41 1 377 72 01
	Ian BARTLE Actin Limited Leatherhead UNITED KINGDOM Tel.: +44 1372 802054 Fax: +44 1372 802245 E-mail: info@actin.co.uk
	Nigel OLIVER Actin Limited Leatherhead UNITED KINGDOM Tel.: +44 1509 216376 Fax: +44 1509 216376 E-mail: info@actin.co.uk
	Charles DEBOUCHE Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux Gembloux BELGIUM Tel.: +32 81 62 21 80 Fax: +32 81 62 23 16 E-mail: debouche.c@fsagx.ac.be
	J.( Hans) T.P. DERKSEN Platform Hernieuwbare Grondstoffen Zeist THE NETHERLANDS Tel.: +31 317475013 Fax: +31 317475347 E-mail: j.t.p.derksen@ato.wag-ur.nl
	Maurice DOHY Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie Paris FRANCE Tel.: +33 2 41204327 Fax: +33 1 47364883 E-mail: maurice.dohy@ademe.fr
	Aurélien GARDEL Agricoltura innovativa per l'ambiente la chimica e l'energia Roma ITALY Tel.: +39 028068081 Fax: +39 0280680869
	Roberto MINIO Pira International Ltd Leatherhead, Surrey UNITED KINGDOM Tel.: +44 1372 802211 Fax: +44 1372 802249 E-mail: minio@pira.co.uk