With the rising concerns on climate change, countries are under pressure to turn to Renewable Energy (RE) sources and reduce CO emissions. RE is an energy sector that is dynamically developing in the world. Amongst RE sources, Bioenergy has proved a highly successful energy option. Today, the share of RE sources in the global primary energy supply is about 13%, including that of biomass 10% that is over 1300 Mtoe/yr. With such a huge potential, only very few countries are using bioenergy.

At present the European Union is consuming over 120 Mtoe/yr of biomass for energy production, and the gross final consumption of biomass is to rise up to 138 Mtoe/yr by 2020. Lack of skilled human resource has been one of the main barriers that hinders bioenergy and other renewable energy diffusion.