The European Technology and Innovation Platform Bioenergy (ETIP Bioenergy) was launched in 2016 and combines the efforts of the European Biofuels Technology Platform (EBTP), which started in 2006, and the European Industrial Initiative Bioenergy (EIBI), which started in 2010. The mission of ETIP Bioenergy is to contribute to the development of cost-competitive, innovative world-class bioenergy and biofuels value chains, to the creation and strengthening of a healthy European bioenergy industry and to accelerate the sustainable deployment of bioenergy in the European Union through a process of guidance, prioritisation and promotion of research, technology development and demonstration.