Objective
Project objectives are to:
-Introduce an innovative technology for production of forest regeneration material build on new technology for pre-cultivation (in mini-plugs) of forest regeneration materials in a cost efficient and environmental friendly production unit;
-Develop new technology for a grading and transplanting robot adapted to mini-plugs; -Integrate these technologies into a functional, flexible system for large scale production of pre-cultivated forest regeneration materials adapted to mechanical transplanting;
-Introduce this system at strategic locations in Europe.
The objectives will be achieved by basic technological, economical and biological studies during the first year. These studies will be the foundation to the development of a prototype pre-cultivation system adjusted to operational production at each of the SMEs during the second year of the project. The new technology can be used in all kind of tree nursery production, with emphasis on production of pre-grown forest regeneration materials. The competitiveness of the SME proposers in the nursery market will be improved by applying the new technology, given that the SME will be able to reduce the functional costs of their units, increase the flexibility of the SME to market demands; improve the quality of their production; decrease the use of chemicals and other inputs, such as energy and space. Furthermore, the new technology suggested will benefit biological diversity at species and genetic level.
The expansion of the new technology to strategic locations in other areas identified in the proposal will need further efforts after the completion of the project with regard to an intensified transnational co-operation organised by the SME proposers.
Finally, the introduction of this innovative system is timely with the existing call for re-organisation and modernisation of forest and amenity nurseries, after the process of privatisation occurring in many EU countries.
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.
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesbiological scienceszoologyentomology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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Call for proposal
FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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Funding Scheme
COOPERATIVE -Coordinator
ARDEA (ROMA)
Italy