Akronym: FOREST4EU
Project number: 101086216
Project duration: 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2025
Budget: overall 2 million €
Partnership: 16 partners, from 9 countries
Lead partner: Università degli Studi di Firenze
FOREST4EU – European innovation partnership network promoting operational group dedicated to forestry and agroforestry is a Horizon Europe project aiming at connecting existing Operational Groups (OGs) from different countries around Europe, to favour the transfer of knowledge and best practices between experts in this field.
The lead partner is the University of Florence (UNIFI), with 16 partners from nine countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Latvia, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Finland).
The aim of the project is to bring together existing Operational Groups (OGs) from different European countries to promote knowledge transfer and best practices between experts in the field.
The project will establish 5 multi-actor EU cross-countries Innovation Topic Hubs (ITHubs) related to 5 identified topics in forestry and agroforestry sectors:
- Wood mobilisation: improving the added value of wood extraction and improving the accessibility of wood biomass potential from private forests
- Forest adaptation to climate change to climate change: finding new solutions to help foresters adapt forest management to the effects of climate change
- Improving approaches, models and tools of sustainable forest management: promoting practices that regulate timber extraction for other ecosystem services
- Non-wood forests products: developing and sharing new business models for the supply of non-timber forest products
- Agroforestry; design and implementation of tailored support policy measures within the agroforestry production system.
The ITHubs will act as cooperation and innovation networks for an efficient knowledge transfer-exchange between different regions in Europe.
The main goal of FOREST4EU is to develop a European multi-actor network to promote and disseminate best practices related to the innovation of national forest and agroforestry among EU countries.