Living lab Grand Reims

The SLAM-B project team, which is developing scenario labs throughout mainland and overseas France, as well as in Senegal, to design and assess trajectories for the bioeconomy of territories towards carbon neutrality, is working closely with the B-BEST research programme on biomass and bioenergy issues.

Title: Webinar SLAM-B Grand Rheims

Url to the video (Youtube, DailyMotion, Vimeo or Mediatheque INRAE) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FzwEkIxE3o

This webinar was an opportunity for Bernard Kurek (UMR FARE), Agathe Souiry (UMR FARE, Reims), Julie Wohlfahrt and Sophie Gerbel (UMR LAE, Colmar) to present the Greater Reims Living Lab, focusing on urban bioeconomy, i.e. the production of biomass in the area, its conversion and recycling into bio-based materials for construction, bioplastics and bioenergy. This scenario lab, run by the UMR FARE and LAE research units in Reims and Colmar, aims to adopt a forward-looking approach to answer the question: ‘What sustainability and resilience for a bioeconomy project in Greater Reims? In collaboration with local stakeholders, this work will make it possible to assess the environmental and economic performance of bioeconomy scenarios for Greater Reims. To this end, a characterisation of the bio-economy sectors is underway. This will be followed by a scenario design phase with the various players in the bioeconomy and an evaluation phase using the MAELIA modelling platform. The sectors concerned include biomass in the broadest sense, food and wine production, bioenergy, bioplastics and bio-based construction materials.

Check out the Linkedin pages and websites of the B-BEST research programme and the SLAM-B project to find out more about biomass and bioenergy (B-BEST), the carbon bioeconomy and lab scenarios (SLAM-B), and the site of the INRAE BETTER metaprogramme on the urban bioeconomy.

On 3 June Bernard Kurek (co-director of the SLAM-B project) will be presenting the Greater Reims living lab to the Better metaprogramme community. B-BEST researchers are invited to come and hear him speak!

For the FairCarboN community, a day on the carbon economy will be held on 12 September at the Université Paris-Saclay. You can still register: FairCarboN - Journée Economie du Carbone (pepr-faircarbon.fr)

SLAM-B project website: https://www.slamb.fr/

Project page: https://www.pepr-faircarbon.fr/projets/projets-cibles/slam-b