Overview
Lobbying Costs
650,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
37.5 Fte (40)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Associação BLC3 - CAMPUS DE TECNOLOGIA E INOVAÇÃO (BLC3)
EU Transparency Register
072095010321-44 First registered on 14 Dec 2012
Goals / Remit
BLC3 was founded in 2010 as a non-profit organisation. Its mission is to encourage environmental, social and economic growth of inner rural regions, through innovative business initiatives.
The organisation aims to develop and apply technical-scientific knowledge to problems and opportunities related to territory exploitation helping in the creation of new businesses, based on regional bioeconomy. To achieve this, BLC3 develops market-oriented R&D projects, based on scientific areas such as bioeconomy (leads a consortium of five European countries for the development of “bioregions” and bioeconomy from five different regions), biotechnology (developing 2nd and 3rd generation biorefineries energetically self-sufficient), sustainability (developing new criteria and systems for the sustainable use of the territory, based on sustainable life cycle assessments), mycology (with the Centre of Applied Mycology), and also areas dedicated to the mitigation of forest fires and advanced technologies to treat and valorise wastewaters/effluents.
BLC3 possess an infrastructure of around 4 ha and access to a network of researchers (55 R&D entities from nine European countries), supporting the transfer of knowledge and technology between higher education institutions and industry in a targeted and results-oriented manner. BLC3 partners include Coimbra University, Minho University, the Portuguese National Laboratory for Energy and Geology (LNEG), Superior School of Technology and Management of Oliveira do Hospital, the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, the Institute of Experimental Biology and Technology, Biotechnology Innovation Centre and Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica from Spain.
Through professionally-run R&D and network activities, BLC3 provides solutions for business-specific needs, helping to transform the Centre Inner Region of Portugal in an area of national excellence regarding the field of sustainable development, as well as improving the local populations' quality of life and promoting the sustainable use of the region territory.Main EU files targeted
Biorefineries
Bioproducts
Bioindustries
Bioeconomy
Education programs
Technology and innovation: enterprise
EntrepreneurshipAddress
Head Office
Rua Nª Srª da Conceição, 2, Lagares
Oliveira do Hospital
PORTUGAL -
People
Total lobbyists declared
40
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 35 50% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
37.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
BLC3 has a complementary human network, approximately 115 people, from R&D institutions and departments (scientists and technological people).
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
55 R&D entities from nine European countries
Bio-Based Industries Consortium - BIC Plataform - biconsortium.eu
ALL - Portuguese Association for Bioeconomy and Circular Economy
European Southern Research Alliance of Bioeconomy and Circular EconomyMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
650,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
698,086 € (Source: financing community projects)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
BioREFINA-Ter: development and construction of an industrial demonstrative plant for the production of 25 million liters of biofuels/year. Biorefinery concept that integrates 2nd and 3rd generation.
Centre Bio: Bioindustries, Biorefinaries and Bioproducts - was created to implement a progress model, for rural regions with low population density, towards a low-dependence on primary energy/materials inputs. An economic activity within a closed loop, through the approach "Bioeconomy and Smart Regions", based on the methodology of Industrial Ecology applied to the progress of industrial and regional symbioses. 2nd place in the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) in the area of "Supporting the development of ecological markets and resource efficiency" in 2014, world top 25 University Business Incubator and European Top 10 University Business Incubator, in a group of more than 370 incubators from 76 countries in 2015, winner of the RegioStars prize in 2016 in the category of sustainable growth, Finalist at the European Commission Best Public Administration For Start Up in the category of Green Entrepreneurship) in 2017 and Finalist of the Green Award Project in the category "Efficient Resource Management" in 2018.Other activities
N.A
- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
- Meetings