FNR (Agency for Renewable Resources) was founded in 1993 by the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV). Our main responsibility is to support research and development in the area of renewable resources, but we also inform the public about current research results, give advice on a range of applications of renewable resources and organise and take part in scientific events.

Cooperation project MOE:
Promoting the use of renewable resources in the Ukraine and the Russian Federation, with a focus on biomass for energy

The main goal of the project is to promote the use of biomass for energy and material production in Russia and Ukraine through information, consulting and networking services. The project is supported by the GFA and the BMELV.

The project started in 2009 and ends in December 2010.

For more details about our project, please select a topic from the left-hand menu.

Should you have any questions which are not answered on these pages, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Andrej Stanev directly.

In order to reach the targets of the German federal government and the EU in the field of renewable energy by 2020, international cooperation and cooperation on sustainable production and use of biofuels need to be strengthened.  Especially Eastern Europe and Central Asia are marked by favourable growing conditions and so far untapped bioenergy potentials. By implementing the cultivation and use of renewable resources for both materials and energy - e.g. in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and with the use of German know-how and a targeted technology transfer - an important contribution can be made towards the mobilisation of these potentials and resulting positive effects for the global environment.

With this background, a collaborative project of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV, funding) and the GFA (management) on the subject: "Promoting the use of renewable resources - with a focus on energy use - in the Ukraine and the Russian Federation" was launched on 01.01.2009. With this project, the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) supports the production and use of renewable resources with a focus on bioenergy in the Ukraine and the Russian Federation by way of consulting and networking services. The project duration is from 01 January 2009 to 31 December 2010.

The overall objective of the project is to implement the cultivation and use of renewable resources for materials and energy in the Russian Federation and the Ukraine by way of consulting and networking services.