CIEMAT

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CIEMAT

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

CIEMAT assigned to the Science and Innovation Department of Spain, is a Public Investigation Organism of excellence in matters of energy and environment, as well as in multiple vanguard technologies and in diverse areas of fundamental research. From its creation in 1951 it carries out technological research and development projects , serving as reference to represent technically Spain in the international forums and to advise to the public administrations in matters of its competition. The CIEMAT is diversified technologically and geographically, to attend to the needs for I+D in Spain in general and in its Autonomous regions in particular. The activity of the CIEMAT is organized concerning research projects that serve as bridge between the I+D and the social interest. The human team of the CIEMAT is formed by, approximately, 1.200 persons, of whom 47 % is university graduates.

CIEMAT is a pioneering organism in the development of the renewable energies in Spain at which it is working in an important way from 1985, year in which there was created the Renewable Energies Institute (today Renewable Energies Division). In addition to the previous Division, it is provided at present with a Center specializing in the development of the wind energies and, especially, biomass energies named CEDER-CIEMAT ( Renewable Energies Development Center), placed in Lubia (province of Soria, Castilla León, Spain).

SFI

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SFI

Slovenian Forestry Institute

The Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) is the main national forest research institute in the field of basic and applied forest research, forest landscape, forest ecosystems, forest health, forestry, wildlife and hunting in Slovenia, which wholesomely target forests biodiversity and their management under changing climate conditions.

It was founded by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. Research and development activities at SFI are carried out in the frame of national and international project, the Research Programme Forest Biology, Ecology and Technology, and trough activities in the frame of Public forest service. SFI has strong connection to different target groups and end users of our research results (research community, forestry industry, wood processing industries, forest owners associations, NGO and others). The specific objectives of SFI are to promote ecosystem goods and services, provided by forest resources to continue and improve traditional close-to-nature sustainable forest management and biodiversity, to maintain sustainable production capacity and ecosystem resistance to changes under stress and biological diversity.

Use of wood biomass for energy is an important research field at the Department of Forest Techniques and Economics. We established the Laboratory for wood biomass with the main goal to monitor the level of quality of wood fuels at the Slovenian market, according to the general accepted European / International standards. Our main mission is to reis awareness about the wood fuel quality issue and consequently to increase the level of quality at the Slovenian wood fuel market.