The principle objectives of this Theme are to improve the competitiveness of European industry and to generate knowledge to ensure its transformation from a resourceintensive to a knowledge-intensive base, by creating step changes through research and implementing decisive knowledge for new applications at the crossroads between
different technologies and disciplines. This will benefit both new, high-tech industries and higher-value, knowledge-based traditional industries, with a special focus on the appropriate dissemination of RTD results to SMEs. These activities are concerned with enabling technologies which impact all industrial sectors and many other FP7 Themes.

Content of calls for proposals in 2009
Activity 4.4: Integration of technologies for industrial applications -Joint call on Biorefinery
Biorefinery is the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of value-added products (chemicals, materials, food and feed) and energy (biofuels, power and heat). By producing multiple bio-products and bio-energy, a biorefinery takes advantage of components and intermediaries and maximizes the value derived from refining operations.

Topic NMP-2009-4.0.1-1: Sustainable Biorefineries

Topic NMP-2009-4.0.1-2: Enhancing exchange of information, synergies and crossfertilisationbetween projects in the field of Biorefineries

The Biorefinery topics are implemented jointly by the Themes 2, 4, 5, 6 mentioned above.
They are identical in each theme.