Sustainable forest management providing renewable energy, sustainable construction and bio-based products

Objective

RoK-FOR aims to create a ‘region of knowledge’ in the forestry sector in Europe, and will significantly contribute to forest sector supporting sustainable use of natural resources, renewable energy, sustainable construction materials and biobased products, without jeopardizing the environment. RoK-FOR is a Coordination Action of five regional research-driven clusters from six European countries: Germany (Baden-Württemberg); Finland (North Karelia); Spain (Catalonia), and the cross-border clusters from Croatia-Serbia and France-Spain (Aquitaine-Basque). These regional research-driven clusters collectively form a European level meta-cluster that will be working together to increase the coherence and address the needs of the three Lead Market Initiatives (renewable energy, sustainable construction, and bio-based products) under the umbrella of the sustainable forest management in an innovative and competitive manner. The RoK-FOR work programme is divided into seven interconnected and state of the art work packages which will be instrumental in fulfilling the objectives of the project in a three year period. The project will analyse the regional R&D needs, capacities and policies of the participating clusters, and will integrate them in regional research agendas and a Joint Action Plan to be developed in the course of the project. RoK-FOR will also take measures towards implementing the Joint Action Plan, including business plans and R&D design. RoK-FOR will address the European need of capacity building of the clustersin contributing to regional strategies in the central theme of the project, will support integration of SMEs in RTD, and has a specific Work Package for mentoring the cross-border region of Croatia-Serbia.

Fields of science

• engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
• agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculture
• engineering and technologycivil engineeringarchitecture engineeringsustainable architecturesustainable building

Programme(s)

• FP7-REGIONS - Specific Programme "Capacities": Regions of knowledge and support for regional research-driven clusters

Topic(s)

• REGIONS-2009-1 - Enhancing the sustainable use of natural resources and of the natural and man-made environment

Call for proposal

FP7-REGIONS-2009-1
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Funding Scheme

Coordinator

Participants (20)