The main objective of FORBIO capacity building is to encourage the European farmers and owners of contaminated lands in the selected sites to start action concerning the production of non-food bioenergy. The initial assessment obtained during multi-stakeholder consultations and preliminary results for the Italian case study show the existence of the necessary technical capacity for setting up advanced bioenergy value chains in the area of Sulcis, Italy. By the end of 2017 an initial assessment for the German and Ukrainian case study will be performed.