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| Title | Designing Trees for the future |
| Grant Agreement Number | 284181 |
| Funding Programmes | FP7 |
| Dates | 01/11/2011 - 31/10/2015 |
| Project URL | http://www.trees4future.eu |
| Scientific Domain |
Environmental Sciences |
| Action Line | Integrated Activity |
| Type Of Project | CP-CSA-INFRA |
| Abstract | 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) from geneticists to environmentalists and from communities working at the tree/population scale to those working at forestry landscape/wood basin levels as well as industry concerns. These scientific communities will combine their complementary infrastructures, tools and knowledge and thus fill in the current gaps 1) physical environment vs genetics, 2) basic wood properties vs end-products quality and 3) individuals to forests scales of study. This collaboration will result in a holistic approach integrating abiotic and biotic environmental aspects through biological responses (eco-physiological and pest/disease risk studies), biomass production (breeding and silviculture) and industrial technology (wood quality and technology). The long-term objective of TREES4FUTURE is to provide not only the partners but the whole European forestry community, with an easy and comprehensive access to complementary but currently scattered sources of information and expertise to optimise the short and long-term exploitation of the forest resources by both the research community and the socio-economic players. Providing access to the wider research community to a wide variety of forestry research infrastructures (from state-of-the-art analytical tools to predictive models) via the project will enable TREES4FUTURE to improve, coordinate and validate its offer to the European and International researchers from both public and private sectors and thus ensure the future sustainability of the consortium as well as that of the wider European Forestry community at large. |
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Partners
(Organisation name and Country) |
UNIVERSITEIT GENT, Belgium STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK, Netherlands INRA TRANSFERT S.A., France Metsantutkimuslaitos, Finland VLAAMS GEWEST, Belgium SÄCHSISCHES STAATSMINISTERIUM FÜR UMWELT UND LANDWIRTSCHAFT, Germany BAYERISCHES STAATSMINISTERIUM FUR ERNAHRUNG, LANDWIRTSCHAFT UND FORSTEN, Germany CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA E SPERIMENTAZIONE IN AGRICOLTURA, Italy INNOVAWOOD ASBL, Belgium INSTITUT TECHNOLOGIQUE FCBA (FORETCELLULOSE BOIS-CONSTRUCTION AMEUBLEMENT), France UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN, Austria INSTYTUT DENDROLOGII POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK, Poland INSTYTUT BADAWCZY LESNICTWA, Poland FUNDACION PARA O FOMENTO DA CALIDADE INDUSTRIAL E DESENVOLVEMENTO TECNOLOXICO DE GALICIA, Spain INNVENTIA AB, Sweden INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION Y TECNOLOGIA AGRARIA Y ALIMENTARIA, Spain INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACAO CIENTIFICA TROPICAL, Portugal EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE, Finland JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, European Union WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, Netherlands Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria Bundesforschungs-und Ausbildungszentrum fur Wald, Naturgefahren und Landschaft, Austria FONDAZIONE EDMUND MACH, Italy FORESTRY COMMISSION RESEARCH AGENCY, United Kingdom INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI SI AMENAJARI SILVICE, Romania JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE RAEUME, WALD UND FISCHEREI, Germany |
