2024 in review

As we near the end of 2024, we’d like to reflect on some of what we’ve achieved this year. From our Researchers’ Day in Glasgow to our Annual Assembly in Sheffield, we’ve established and developed our relationships with key stakeholders. We’ve been excited to deliver a number of events with fellow networks and clusters, including the annual Early Career Researcher Net Zero Conference, training sessions on life-cycle analysis and an international webinar series. Alongside significant papers from our researcher network, we published a major report on bio-based chemicals and materials and the impact they could have in defossiling the petrochemicals industry. We’ve continued our close relationship with a number of government departments, agencies and devolved powers. Some of these have been brought together through the Policy Forum: one of four new stakeholder forums designed to connect the biomass and bioenergy community, disseminate research knowledge and support sustainable bioenergy deployment. In November we launched the Supergen Bioenergy Hub Member Directory to support our stakeholders in making connections and developing collaborations. We’ve also funded six new projects through our first flexible funding call on biomass to bio-based products.

Thank you to everyone who has engaged with the Hub in the past year – we look forward to developing those relationships in 2025. Thank you also to the core team, to our project leads and to our SHARE Network for early career researchers for making the year such a success. A special thanks to the SHARE Committee for doing such an incredible job organising and managing events, membership, budget and more. We’re looking forward to everything they’re planning in the new year.