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International research organizations and initiatives
- Applied Environmental Research Foundation (Pune, India)
- ICRISAT (Hyderabad, India) - The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Conducts research on plants, including biofuel feedstocks such as sweet sorghum.
- The Refuel Project - The Refuel Project "is designed to encourage a greater market penetration of biofuels" in the European Union.
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National research organizations and initiatives
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Research at academic institutions
- United States
- The California Biomass Collaborative - "a statewide collaboration of government, industry, environmental groups, and educational institutions administered for the state by the University of California, Davis"
- Energy Biofuels Institute (EBI) - a collaborative effort of the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funded through a $500 million 10-year grant from the energy company BP. The Insitute is to be located on the U.C. Berkeley campus.
- This institute is being challenged by the organization Stop BP-Berkeley.
- Sun Grant Initiative
- Switzerland
- Empa Swiss Federal Materials Testing, St. Gallen (EMPA)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) - The EPFL Energy Center hosts the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, a key multi-stakeholder initiative to develop standards for the sustainability of biofuels. See the RSB webpage.
- Haiti
- The CHIBAS foundation - A non-profit organization working to develop and promote the use of multipurpose crops contributing to food and energy security in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic. The foundation runs a Biofuel Technical & Knowledge Center working on Sweet sorghum and Jatropha curcas (research: plant breeding and agronomy)
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Research consortiums
- The Glycerol Challenge - The Glycerol Challenge is a consortium of industry and Cardiff University funded by the UK Department of Transportation to develop alternative uses for glycerol, a major by-product of biodiesel production.
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