Symposium on Science and Technology Driving the Bioeconomy

该奖项是作为美国农业部S-1075多国委员会会议的一部分，对利益相关者对生物经济的观点研讨会的部分支持。生物基经济具有以环境可持续方式生产生物燃料和生物产品的潜力。这个由35所赠地大学的研究人员组成的联盟致力于解决生物经济的障碍，包括原料物流和转化技术方面的挑战。S-1045多州委员会的年度会议举行，以协调和分享来自全国各地的赠地大学的研究。与来自资助机构的主要研究人员和演讲者一起组织研讨会，分享最新的研究知识并协调未来的研究。2019年S-1075多国委员会年度研讨会将于2019年7月29日至30日在美国能源部国家可再生能源实验室（NREL）举行。2019年研讨会的目标是了解生物能源和生物产品技术商业化时面临的主要挑战。NSF的资金将用于支持研究生参加这次研讨会，并会见NREL的研究人员。这是一个会议，学生可以与生物经济的整个部门，包括研究人员，生产商，加工商，金融部门和政府机构进行互动。这将有助于引导下一代劳动力应对生物经济的挑战和机遇。研讨会的会议记录将以硬拷贝和软拷贝的形式出版，并由S-1045成员广泛分发给感兴趣的观众。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is partial support of the Symposium on Stakeholders Perspective on the Bioeconomy as part of the meeting of the USDA S-1075 Multistate Committee. The biobased economy has potential to produce biofuels and bioproducts in an environmentally sustainable way. This consortia of researchers from 35 land grant universities address barriers to a bioeconomy including challenges in feedstock logistics and conversion technologies. Annual meetings of the S-1045 multistate committee are held to coordinate and share research from land grant universities across the nation. Symposiums are organized with leading researchers and speakers from funding agencies to share the latest research knowledge and coordinate future research. The 2019 S-1075 Multistate Committee annual symposium will be held at the USDOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on July 29-30, 2019. The goal of the 2019 symposium is to develop an understanding of the key challenges when trying to commercialize bioenergy and bioproduct technologies. NSF funding will be used to support graduate students to attend this symposium and to meet with NREL researchers. This is a meeting where the students can interact with the entire sector of the bioeconomy including researchers, producers, processors, financial sector and government agencies. This will help in orienting the next workforce generation to challenges and opportunities in the bioeconomy. The proceedings from the symposium will be published in both hard and soft copy formats and distributed widely to interested audience by S-1045 members.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.