Fondazione Edmund Mach gets the knowledge heritage of the Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, founded in 1874. It is a prestigious institution which over the years has achieved many important goals at international level delivering a range of education, training and technology transfer programs in the field of agriculture, food processing and sustainable development. The R&D activities on biomass are aimed to optimize the different processing chains through the recovery of residues and by-products, their transformation and exploitation by means of innovative solutions, suitable to the considered context and with particular attention to the environmental impact.