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Martin Černý

2005 - 2009

Project partners:

Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, ALUFR, Germany Alterra BV, Alterra, Netherlands Asociación de Investigación y Desarrollo en la Industria del Mueble y Afines, Spain Association Forêt Cellulose, AFOCEL, France Baden-Württemberg Forest Research Institute, FVA, Germany BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria Building Research Establishment, BRE, United Kingdom Center for International Forestry Research, CIFOR, Indonesia Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya, CTFC, Spain CEPF – Confédération Européenne des Propriétaires Forestiers, Belgium CIRAD-Forêt, France Confederation of European Paper Industries, CEPI, Belgium European Confederation of Woodworking Industries, CEI-Bois, Belgium European Forest Institute, EFI, Finland Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products, BFH, Germany Forest Research Institute, IBL, Poland Forest Research, an executive Agency of the Forestry Commission, United Kingdom InnovaWood Limited, Ireland Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA, France Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, IFER, Czech Republic Instituto Superior de Agronomia, ISA, Portugal JP Management Consulting (Europe) Oy, Finland Kenniscentrum Papier en Karton, KCPK, Netherlands Latvian Forestry Research Institute, SILAVA, Latvia Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, IFE-MUAF, Czech Republic OY Keskuslaboratorio – Central-laboratorium AB, KCL, Finland Savcor Indufor OY, Finland Slovenian Forestry Institute, SFI, Slovenia STFI-Packforsk AB, Sweden Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, SLU, Sweden Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Finland Technical University in Zvolen, TUZVO, Slovakia The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB, Norway The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, KVL, Denmark Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, CATIE, Costa Rica Unité de Recherché sur la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles, Congo Republic Warsaw Agricultural University, Faculty of Forestry, SGGW, Poland

Description:
EFORWOOD is a four-year integrated project involving 38 organisations in 18 countries, with an estimated total budget of €20 million – of which the European Commission contribution is approximately €13 million. The project is funded under the EU ‘Global change and ecosystems’ research activities in the Sixth Framework Programme.
EFORWOOD’s aim is to produce what the team describes as a decision-support tool that can be used to evaluate the contribution made to sustainable economic, environmental and social development by and through the European forestry and forest-products sector.
This tool will measure the impact of the activities along the forestry-wood chain (FWC) from each of the three perspectives of sustainability. The overall tool will be the most important product of EFORWOOD. A user-friendly, web-based version will also be developed. It is intended that a number of existing tools, models and databases, identified as potentially useful for the integrated sustainability impact analysis of a forestry-wood chain, will be used and adapted for application in EFORWOOD.
IFER as a leader of WP 1.2 is responsible for building and management of the database.
As a Europe-wide effort to develop an assessment tool for sustainability impact of the forestry-wood chain, the EFORWOOD project is very significant.

 

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