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Efficient forestry by precision planning and management for sustainable environment and cost-competitive bio-based industry (EFFORTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

EFFORTE draws a red line through critical, cost/benefit driving processes, and environmentally concerns of today´s forestry. Starting with efficient fulfilment of various customer demands the red line goes along efficient utilization of Big Data sources, present knowledge and critical new knowledge foreseen as outcomes from this project.Technical development and mechanization has been a winning co ...
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Building energy renovation through timber prefabricated modules (BERTIM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

About 40% of the overall energy consumption in Europe is related to the building sector and represents about 1/3 of Europe’s CO2 emissions. The successful accomplishment of the emission reduction target by 2050, involves the need to increase the rate of retrofitting of the inefficient building stock up to 2.9%. In order to increase the renovation rate, more efficient renovation processes from desi ...
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Research Infrastructure for Circular Forest Bioeconomy (ERIFORE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The ERIFORE will realize the European potential to consolidate its place as a world leader in biomass based research and innovations. ERIFORE builds on a new firm alliance aiming to establish open access distributed forest bioeconomy research infrastructure across Europe enabling scientific discoveries to be transferred to new business models, novel products and services enabling sustainable growt ...
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WoodWisdom-Net+ Pacing Innovation in the Forest-Based Sector (WoodWisdom-Net+)

Start date: Nov 15, 2012, End date: Nov 14, 2017,

The overall objective of the WoodWisdom-Net+ is to support the transformation of the European F-BI and sustainable forest management for increasing resource efficiency and adapting to and mitigating climate change effects. This will be achieved by integrating knowledge and technologies of large-scale industrial products and processes, as well as primary production.The aim is to plan a single joint ...
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Sustainable Innovative Mobilisation of Wood (SIMWOOD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"SIMWOOD presents a novel idea for an innovative, integrated approach to multifunctional forestry and enhanced wood mobilisation across European forest regions. The project targets a multitude of forest owners and stakeholders to spread integrated, transferable solutions and viable policies to unlock immobile forest resources and ensure sustainable forest functions. A novel pan-European Informatio ...
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Improved Service Life Prediction and Test Capability for Wood Coatings (SERVOWOOD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

... consumers who in the absence of credible guarantees may use less sustainable substrates for components, such as uPVC or Aluminium. A response to this problem has been the emergence of national and institution certification schemes. However these can effectively amount to barriers to trade between countries and do not rigorously address the issue of service life prediction. The SERVOWOOD project w ...
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Careers in Sustainability Excellence (CASTLE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Implementing the EU vision of a Green Economy will cause rapid changes to the forest-based and bio-energy sectors. Growing bioenergy demands change land use and cause intensified resource utilisation in agriculture and forestry. Sustainable development targets in production and consumption of biomass and wood products have stimulated wider adoption of sustainability assessment methods in policy an ...
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FORest management strategies to enhance the MITigation potential of European forests (FORMIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"Forest management can lead to continuous carbon sequestration, while timber as a renewable energy source can used as a substitute for fossil fuel, thus multiplying this mitigation effect. FORMIT aims to develop forest management scenarios for carbon sequestration in Europe, including mitigation measures and management strategies for different regions, and accounting for trade-offs with other fore ...
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Harvesting with Marteloscope Methodology in a European Ring

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

... marteloscopes, besides its attractive and modern aspects, will enable to have a panel of examples usable by all partners as well as other users outside the project (other training organizations or institutions in other countries ...). The goal of the HAMMER (standing for Harvesting with Marteloscope Methodology in a European Ring) project is to build a collection of digitized marteloscopes, made ...
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Designing Trees for the future (TREES4FUTURE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

TREES4FUTURE will make a significant contribution to helping the European forestry sector respond, in a sustainable manner, to increasing demands for wood products and services (among which preservation of forest biodiversity) in a context of changing climatic conditions. To do so TREES4FUTURE will integrate for the first time major, yet rarely interacting forestry communities (and their resources ...
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Logistics for Energy Crops' Biomass (LOGISTEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Cost-efficient, environmental-friendly and socially sustainable biomass supply chains are urgently needed to achieve the 2020 targets of the Strategic Energy Technologies-Plan of the European Union, which are likely to be impeded by the potential scarcity of lignocellulosic biomass from agriculture. Innovative techniques for crop management, biomass harvesting and pre-treatment, storage and transp ...
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Promoting a functional and comparative understanding of the conifer genome- implementing applied aspects for more productive and adapted forests (PROCOGEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

In the midst of a climatic change scenario, the genetics of adaptive response in conifers becomes essential to ensure a sustainable management of genetic resources and an effective breeding. Conifers are the target of major tree breeding efforts worldwide. Advances in molecular technologies, such as next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, could have an enormous impact on the rate of progres ...
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Performance standards for wood in construction - delivering customer service life needs (PerformWOOD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The project objective is to kick-start the development of new standards to enable the service life specification of wood and wood based materials for construction. This is critical to ensure the future sustainable use of European forests, to ensure customers of wood products get satisfactory and reliable products and to provide supplementary evidence for life cycle evaluations of construction prod ...
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Boosting raw material and energy efficiency using advanced sheet structure design and fibre modifications (BoostEff)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

BoostEff aims at developing new innovative manufacturing concepts for wood-fibre based products giving a significant reduction in environmental footprint. The targeted products are important commodities for the European society: paper and construction board. In spite of the different end uses, the paper making and construction board sectors share wood fibres as a common raw material and convert th ...
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Flexible Wood Supply Chain (FlexWood)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

A number of studies indicate that the market demand for wood will lead to strong competition between the different wood industry branches. This is especially true in view of a globalised wood market, in which production is characterised by fast structural changes and concentration processes. Competition between different wood industries and the development towards large production units, as well a ...
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Networking and Integration of National Programmes in the Area of Wood Material Science and Engineering in the Forest-based Value Chains (WOODWISDOM-NET 2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The first ERA-NET on wood material science and engineering, WoodWisdom-Net started in 2004 with 12 partners from 5 countries. In 2006 the network expanded with 6 partners (3 new countries). As a main result, late 2006 the first joint Transnational Research Programme (2006-11) with 17 projects of a total volume of over 20 M€ was launched. WoodWisdom-Net 2 with 19 partners from 12 countries aims at ...
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