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Light & Fire open the Doors for Biodiversity -LIFE (Light & Fire -LIFE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Background Under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive, EU Members States are required to periodically report on the conservation status of Annex I natural habitat types and Annex II species that fall within their territory. The Finnish country report for the period 2001-2006 assessed the overall conservation status of 18 out of 19 Annex I natural habit ...
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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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ValChem - Value added Chemical building blocks and lignin from wood (ValChem)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

"ValChem demonstrates the technical and economic viability of sustainable and integrated process from wood to a selected platform chemical and lignin based performance chemicals. ValChem will demonstrate that this process can produce wood-based chemicals that are competitive with identical or similar-in-application products based on fossil raw materials in terms of quality and production cost.Val ...
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PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems (PRODIAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The use of renewable resources in the process industries is socially desirable and a market pull for products has started to develop in recent years, but renewable products have to compete with identical or similar-in-application products based on fossil raw materials in terms of quality and production cost. One of the main reasons for currently higher production costs of products based on renewab ...
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PROcesses for Value added fibres by Innovative Deep Eutectic Solvents (PROVIDES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

The main objective of the PROVIDES project is to develop a radically new, sustainable and techno-economically feasible pulping technology for wood and agro-based lignocellulose raw materials based on deep eutectic solvents (DES), a new class of natural solvents which have the unique ability to dissolve and thus mildly fractionate lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose at low temperature and atmospher ...
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A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials (NANOREG)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related EHS issues. While toxicity data is continuously becoming available, the relevance to regulators is often unclear or unproven. The shrinking time to market of new MNM drives the need for urgent action by regulators. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answe ...
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Bioethanol from paper fibres separated from solid waste, MSW (FIBREETOH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The EC Directives set ambitious targets for mandatory 10 % biofuels share in road transport. 2nd generation biofuels will give significant benefits as ethanol blends in gasoline and synthetic biodiesel products. The innovative focus in the FibreEtOH project is to demonstrate for the first time globally in a commercial scale, a cost efficient paper fibre based ethanol production with high, > 70 ...
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Development of sustainable solutions for nanotechnology-based products based on hazard characterization and LCA (NANOSUSTAIN)

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

Objective of the NanoSustain project is to develop innovative solutions for the sustainable design, use, recycling and final treatment of nanotechnology-based products This will be achieved by a comprehensive data gathering and generation of relevant missing data, as well as their evaluation and validation, for specific nanoproducts or product groups in relation to their human health and environme ...
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Scale-Up Nanoparticles in Modern Papermaking (SUNPAP)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Past years have made the radical change of the European paper industry evident to everyone. To accelerate growth, the industry has to beat the product commoditization and renew its product base with value-added products. Energy saving is not just part of the environmental agenda, it has become the most crucial topic for the competitiveness of European paper industry. In order to maintain the advan ...
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Complex structural and multifunctional Parts from enhanced Wood-based Composites - eWPC (BioStruct)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Despite a lot of research activities carried out in the field of Wood Plastic Compounds there is still a certain lack of interest in the commercial market for this new class of materials. BioStruct will help to overcome these barriers in the market success by the development of the next material generation, so-called enhanced Wood Plastic Composites eWPC, avoiding the most important drawbacks in c ...
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Restoration of boreal forests and forest-covered mires (Boreal forests)

Start date: Dec 1, 2002, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background Boreal natural forests, esker forests and bog woodlands are considered priority habitats under the Habitats Directive due to their scarcity in the EU. Southern and western Finland in particular has few such forest ecosystems remaining, as most have been substantially modified or replaced by commercial forest operations. Yet even so, their conse ...
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Treating Waste for Restoring Land Sustainability (TWIRLS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background Europe is facing a number of large-scale environmental problems related to waste and land-use. The amount of waste currently produced is estimated to be in the region of two billion tonnes a year, and this is increasing by some 10% annually. A significant proportion of this waste (approximately 410 million tonnes per year) relates to industrial ...
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