African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Science and Technology Programme
Capacity-building in South Africa, Namibia and Ghana to create sustainable, non-food bio-oil supply chains
Aims
EU and African partners are collaborating to build sustainable non-food renewable bio-oil supply chains for providing CHP electricity, and in the future, the chemical feedstocks needed to replace
Relevant science and technology academics, professionals, decision-makers and support scheme managers from South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Italy and the UK are being linked in a series of inter-regional and intra-regional workshops over a 36month time-frame. The aims are to
- Develop projects that will increase the supply of sustainable bio-energy resources from 2nd generation non-food sources such as jatropha or microalgae, and develop new products with high value.
- Develop new biofuel skills training programmes for new oil-processing businesses and for ESCos for the mutual benefit of both EU and ACP countries.
- Stimulate investment in new biofuel industries to deliver sustainable CHP electricity based on renewable biofuel.
- Link farming and aquaculture communities in Africa with biofuel business demand in Africa and Europe.
- Promote the benefits of CHP systems running on biofuels and stimulate demand by local and regional authorities who procure energy for their communities.
ACP-EU Co-operation in Science and Technology
This Action is funded under the Technology and Science and Technology Programme by the European Union and implemented by the ACP Secretariat.
Partners
- University of Greenwich – Natural Resources Institute (Lead)
- Marine Biology Association, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
- GCLME Productivity and Biodiversity Centre, Department of Oceanography, University of Ghana
- CORISSA, Italy
- Turner & Townsend PTY, Republic of South Africa
- Sam Nujoma Marine & Coastal Resource Centre, University of Namibia
- Goldex 35PTY, Republic of South Africa
- Jatropha Africa Ltd, Ghana
