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Annual Report 2014
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Looking at the Centre’s key performance
indicators, we see a high scientific
production and an increasing value for
our user partners
Berta Matas Güell
Centre Coordinator
SINTEF Energy
Research
Editorial
Odd Jarle Skjelhaugen
Deputy Centre Coordinator
NMBU – Norwegian University
of Life Sciences
2014 – Successful implementation of the midterm evaluation measures
During 2014, we implemented all the measures defined in the 2013 midterm evaluation. The Research
Council of Norway and our User partners have recognized the changes, leading to stronger internal
collaboration and tighter involvement of the User partners. Looking at the Centre’s key performance
indicators, we see a high scientific production and an increasing value for our User partners, corrobo-
rating the important role of CenBio as the national bioenergy research platform in Norway.
We would like to underline the active role of our User partners. By mutual understanding, it is possible
to meet the practical industrial needs by combining fundamental and applied research. In 2014, the
industry’s involvement has been concentrated mainly on:
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Prioritizing the planned research activities (Annual Work Plan 2015)
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Assessing a number of detailed value chains (CenBio SP6)
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Co-authorship in scientific publications with our researchers
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Describing bioenergy future scenarios (Foresight Process)
Another element to highlight in 2014 is the Foresight Process that CenBio facilitated. The participants
had to think out of the box to describe four distinctive futures for bioenergy in Norway and find the
plausible reasons for each of the future situations to happen. The process generated innumerable and
fruitful discussions. The foresight report represents a political and commercial strategic decision-making tool.
Furthermore, the number of joint publications between the two distant campuses in Trondheim and Ås
is increasing. Out of the fourteen co-authored publications produced during CenBio’s lifetime, eleven
were published the last two years (see Figure 5). This collaboration strengthens the link between the
two research communities in particular and the national bioenergy sector in general.