Official launch of the BioStar project: bioenergy for SMEs in West Africa
16/04/2021 - Press release
The BioStar project was officially launched on Thursday 15 April at Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Ouagadougou. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the University, CNRST, AFD, the Delegation of the European Union to Burkina Faso, and CIRAD , under the presidency of the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation of Burkina Faso.
Contributing to energy and food security in West Africa by developing an
innovative bioenergy sector and meeting the
needs of food processing SMEs
: this is the objective of the BioStar project, funded for a five-year period by the European Union DeSIRA programme and the Agence Française de Développement, which have provided 9.4 and 2 million euros respectively.
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