Info_EURORREG

EUROREG - Euroregion New Aquitaine, Basque Country, Navarre

The Aquitaine-Basque Country Euroregion was created in 2011 as a cross-border cooperation programme with the Aquitaine-Basque Country Region. This cooperation has contributed to bringing the populations closer together and to building the identity of this new regional group.

Its objective is to carry out actions that contribute to economic, social and cultural development throughout the Euroregion; facilitating and promoting cross-border cooperation among its members, in order to strengthen economic and territorial cohesion within the European Union.

This territorial cooperation area seeks integrated development in the following areas, mainly:

  • R&D&I.
  • Environment and sustainable development.
  • Accessibility.
  • Sustainable urban development.
  • Culture, promotion of mutual knowledge of the languages ​​of the Euroregion.
  • Cooperation in Education and Training.
  • Treatment of issues related to agriculture and food.

EUROREG Projects

Bio4Uni: Evaluation of Synergies in the Generation and Use of Renewable Energy for Biomass to reduce the Environmental Impact of University Campuses

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Coordinator
UPV/EHU PI: Iñigo León Cascante
Project start: 10/12/2019
Project end: 10/06/2021

Brief description: University campuses, in many cases, can be considered as small cities that have a considerable influence on the environmental impacts of the territories in which they are located. The larger a campus, the greater its energy consumption and therefore the more natural resources it needs. This amount of material needed, cannot be produced by itself, so large amounts of resources are transported to be transformed into goods and services which are partially returned to the environment in the form of waste and emissions. Significant University campuses will be analyzed in each of the 3 territories. The environmental impacts, which are currently being generated, will be obtained through the use of non-renewable energies, and future reform scenarios will be considered through renewable energies. Scenarios will be studied and quantified where the use of wind energy, forest biomass and photovoltaic energy will allow reducing the energy of non-renewable origin consumed. The project will be based on the NEST tool, a quantitative environmental impact assessment tool for urban projects with a Life Cycle perspective and that allows a comparison of scenarios.