Project description
Upgrading forest-based sector research in Slovakia
The EU aims to establish a low-carbon, circular bioeconomy centred on renewables, including the versatile use of wood biomass. However, national research within the forest-based sector is often fragmented, underutilised and lacks collaboration with western/northern EU countries. This leads to diminishing the sector's potential throughout its value chain. In this context, the EU-funded LignoSilva project seeks to enhance Slovakia’s LignoSilva Centre of Excellence by implementing institutional reforms, enhancing excellence, expanding research capacities and facilitating digital transformation. The project will bring excellent research, applicable innovations and more efficient knowledge transfer in three key research areas: technologies and systems for the higher valorisation of wood; technologies for special paper production and biodegradable packaging; and recycling technologies for cellulose sludge and wood ash.
Objective
The LIGNOSILVA Centre of Excellence for Forest-based industry stands for a systematic and structural change in the research landscape of the forest-based sector (FBS). The EU has made a strategic turn towards a circular bioeconomy, striving for a low-carbon society based on renewable sources, including wood biomass. It requires to transfer of knowledge and brings new innovation into FBS practice. FBS research landscape in Slovakia - as well as in countries with similar political histories - is highly fragmented and loses much of its potential due to insufficiently organised structures and strategies. Moreover, it is not linked to collaboration with Western/Northern EU countries. In the long run, this affects the entire value chain.
The overall objective of the CoE is to contribute to overcoming these shortcomings by upgrading the existing LignoSilva Center of Excellence (CoE). The essence of upgrade lies in institutional reform that introduces European science management standards, increases excellence, expands research capacities, digital transformation based on the implementation of Forestry 4.0 and Pulp & Paper 4.0 into CoE research-innovation activities, support for open science and more efficient knowledge transfer to FBS.
The main goal is to bring excellent research and applicable innovation into FBS in three research areas:
- Intelligent technologies and systems supporting wood production and industrial wood processing.
- Pulp and paper technologies for biodegradable packaging and special papers development with multifunctional properties
- Recycling technologies and use of cellulose sludge and wood ash
CoE LignoSilva's objective will be reached by concentrating the research and infrastructure capacities of the National Forestry Centre and the Pulp and Paper Research Institute in Bratislava. They will build up and foster cooperation with the advanced partners Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute (Germany).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- humanities history and archaeology history
- social sciences economics and business economics bioeconomy
- agricultural sciences agricultural biotechnology biomass
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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960 01 Zvolen
Slovakia
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