Some months ago the European Union activated a cooperation project with Latin America (with particular attention to Andean and Amazonian regions), which was called BEPINET (biomass energy platforms implementation for training in Latin America – network). This project aims to the development of a network of technical-scientific know-how, embedded in the rural areas of the interested countries. For domestic usage such as heating and energy production, biomass represents an alternative renewable source in competition with fossil fuels, considering the local availability of vegetal and animal waste materials.
It is not the same cooperation project as many others, where you just take the technology to be applied, but the help aims to stimulate directly the activity of universities and institutions towards a better sensibility on the energy issue and its alternative, sustainable solutions in order to give more responsibility to the local communities, creating little networks between regions. The same project was also activated in Africa.
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