Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

Institutional Partnerships in Agroenergy
In Brazil, there are institutions and companies in each of the major areas
of agroenergy that either supply or demand new technologies, whether in raw
material production or industrial transformation processes, or linked to
commerce, distribution or supply of final products to the domestic and foreign
markets.
The success of the National Research, Development and Innovation
Program in Agroenergy depends on the articulation of the organizations and
companies that make up the supply and demand sides, whose activities are
currently dispersed. It is also contingent upon the organization of a joint
technical program, of multidisciplinary and multi-institutional nature, that points
to and fills gaps in the program in order to ensure the viability and maintain the
competitiveness of biomass energy sources.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) intends to gather
and articulate these companies and institutions as a consortium, whose central
objective will be to design and execute the National RD&I Program in
Agroenergy taking into account regional specificities. Other commercial and
investment aspects could also be part of the consortium's program.
Institutional partnerships are major agreements between founding
entities, for either operational or sponsorship purposes.
The articulation between the parts and the relationship of the consortium
with the set of institutions, including potential participants, will be carried out
through a formal structure that concretizes and institutionalizes the institutional
arrangement itself, a fact that will be contemplated in the document creating
the consortium, to be signed by the leading entities.
Institutionally, this structure will fulfill the objectives and execute the
operations envisioned for the consortium, which could be later joined by other
organizations and will be supervised by an Administrative Council made up of
representatives of the participants.
The formal institutional partnership or consortium will be directed by
technical personnel hired or seconded by the participating entities, albeit
administrative and financial independent from them. The consortium will act
through operational centers in various regions of the country, in partnership
with the participating entities or with domestic or foreign third parties, and
with Embrapa Agroenergy, to be incorporated.
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