The collaborative project by partners in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, which may help promote the use of renewable energy sources and sustainable crop production systems, has been initiated. Called the "Cultivation for bioenergy, water preservation and field protection" (BioM), the project will "develop economically and environmentally sustainable large-scale biomass productions for energy purposes, which do not compete with food production". As listed in the Danish AgroTeck website, the four major activities of the project are: (1) Project management, which ensures an effective leadership and communication platform; (2) Cultivation system and documentation of effects on the environment and nature, which focus on optimal cultivation systems for energy crops in large scale systems and mapping and measuring the effects of these; (3) Development of techniques and harvest and storage methods, which focus on optimization of harvest process, biogas yield, upgrading gas for transport use, and recycling nutrients for organic plant production; (4) Organizing, local approval and business development will ensure the long term sustainability of the cultivation systems by demonstration sites and dissemination of the achieved knowledge. The project, which is co-financed by the EU's Kattegat-Skagerak programme, was launched last January 2010, and will run for three years..