Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EUFORE (European FOREST Research and Innovation Ecosystem)
Berichtszeitraum: 2022-11-01 bis 2024-04-30
The EUFORE project supports the preparation for a possible European research and innovation partnership on forests under the Horizon Europe Programme. It aims to develop a sustainable, transnational, co-creative environment to define, implement, and evaluate research and innovation (R&I) agendas and roadmaps for the entire forest-based value chains in Europe. The project will assess, and outline research needs and provide a platform for increased R&I cooperation, coordination, and joint funding for forestry and the forest-based sector, thus supporting the implementation of the new EU forest strategy. EUFORE outputs include a strategic R&I agenda for forestry and the forest-based sector (SRIA), along with accompanying implementation measures and stakeholder commitments. These will be codesigned with key relevant actors, in a multi-actor approach. The project team continuously facilitates and strives to implement broad stakeholder engagement via diverse participation mechanisms, all designed to instill a sense of co-ownership of the SRIA preparation process and thus secure support for its implementation. To enable its stakeholders to reach informed decisions, EUFORE provides them with all the necessary information i.e. a review of European R&I activity in the sector, funding, and governance; information on societal expectations towards the sector; analysis of the policy environment and its R&I implications; and foresight on how the sector might develop, and what the future supply of and demand for its ecosystem services and products may be.
In WP1, work on mapping the development of research production (T1.1) innovation capacities (T1.2) as well as on mapping and analyzing research and innovation funding and its governance at both European and national levels (T1.3) has commenced. A literature review on funding and governance of European forest-based sector research and innovation (R&I) has been performed, as well as an analysis of European-funded R&I projects for forests and the forest-based sector (T1.3).
WP 2 launched a European survey for analysing societal demands towards forests (T2.1) commenced the research protocol for examining European policies (T2.2) analysed future trends for forests & wood supply and wood demand, and started to prepare scenarios for identifying realistic potentials and expectations and future R&I needs (T2.3) as well as identifying and synthesizing recent relevant Horizon Scanning and other foresight exercises related to the forest sector (T2.4).
WP3 designed and published a stakeholder engagement protocol (T3.1) launched the Stakeholder Engagement Hub (T3.2) conducted six regional stakeholder workshops, and co-organized the first general stakeholder meeting (T3.5). The EUFORE project made significant progress in co-creating the SRIA (T3.5) by implementing Thematic Working Groups. In these groups the stakeholders elaborated the first draft of the SRIA.
WP4 produced an effective communication, dissemination, and exploitation plan to ensure the EUFORE project’s successful outreach (T4.1) designing a starter kit with promotional materials, call-to-action videos, an infographic, and a poster (T4.2 T4.3).EUFORE actively participated in SCAR FOREST activities, supported the European Partnership on Forests and Forestry proposal, and coordinated with national funders in the ForestValue projects further enhancing engagement and collaboration (T4.4).
WP5 successfully established and coordinated the overall working procedures in the project, including the facilitation of productive working relationships amongst the WPs and internal project communication given the overall objectives and the management of the project's relationships and continuous dialogue with stakeholders and the wider public (T5.1). It also continuously ensured the quality of all deliverables and outputs delivered to the European Commission (T5.2).
WP 2 launched a European survey for analysing societal demands towards forests (T2.1) commenced the research protocol for examining European policies (T2.2) analysed future trends for forests & wood supply and wood demand, and started to prepare scenarios for identifying realistic potentials and expectations and future R&I needs (T2.3) as well as identifying and synthesizing recent relevant Horizon Scanning and other foresight exercises related to the forest sector (T2.4).
WP3 designed and published a stakeholder engagement protocol (T3.1) launched the Stakeholder Engagement Hub (T3.2) conducted six regional stakeholder workshops, and co-organized the first general stakeholder meeting (T3.5). The EUFORE project made significant progress in co-creating the SRIA (T3.5) by implementing Thematic Working Groups. In these groups the stakeholders elaborated the first draft of the SRIA.
WP4 produced an effective communication, dissemination, and exploitation plan to ensure the EUFORE project’s successful outreach (T4.1) designing a starter kit with promotional materials, call-to-action videos, an infographic, and a poster (T4.2 T4.3).EUFORE actively participated in SCAR FOREST activities, supported the European Partnership on Forests and Forestry proposal, and coordinated with national funders in the ForestValue projects further enhancing engagement and collaboration (T4.4).
WP5 successfully established and coordinated the overall working procedures in the project, including the facilitation of productive working relationships amongst the WPs and internal project communication given the overall objectives and the management of the project's relationships and continuous dialogue with stakeholders and the wider public (T5.1). It also continuously ensured the quality of all deliverables and outputs delivered to the European Commission (T5.2).