RE -CORD (Renewables Energy Consortium for Research and Demonstration) is a non-profit company that provides system expertise and resources (laboratories, experimental areas and demo plants) to create a critical mass and to develop research in a scientific and technological level. RE-CORD main goals are: • Put together member resources in a simple structure able to catch opportunities quickly and efficiently. • Represent an excellence centre for research and demonstration on several specific areas of Renewable Energy, Agro-energy and Biofuels, both in a national and in an international scale. • Represent a specialist in a leading sector of the economy, providing authorities and enterprises with services through its know-how, its experience and its facilities (plants, chemical laboratory). • Promote sustainable development of territory and, thanks to its activity of technical and scientific networking, connects experiences and expertise available in different areas, both in Italy and abroad. • Offer to enterprices and other research centers its chemical laboratory servicies, providing a wide range of physical and chemical analysis according to the main European and international standards on a large variety of materials together with biogas production test, microalgae growth test and high value bioproducts estraction. • Give highly skilled graduated young the opportunity to work in their geographical area, supporting administrations and domestic companies in their geographical area, so as to avoiding talent emigration.