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EU Framework projects in which Forest Research is involved

Background

The current Framework Programme, FP7, runs from 2007 to 2013 and groups its broad objectives into four categories:

  • Cooperation
  • Ideas
  • People
  • Capacities.

All programmes promote scientific excellence and seek to realise the overall objective for the EU to become the "most dynamic competitive knowledge-based economy in the world", as set out in the Lisbon strategy. 

Forest Research involvement

Forest Research has participated in Framework Programmes since FP3, with involvement in the projects listed below:

Ongoing projects

AcronymProjectFramework programme
EFORWOOD Sustainability impact assessment of the forestry-wood chain FP6
MOTIVE Models for adaptive forest management FP7
NOVELTREE Novel tree breeding strategies FP7
TREEBREEDEX A working model network of tree improvement towards a competitive, multifunctional and sustainable European forestry FP6

Completed projects

AcronymProjectFramework programme
BIOSOIL Improving the common European baseline of forest soils for environmental applications FP6
COLDTREE Dormancy and cold hardiness in forest tree seedlings FP5
COMFOR Tools and methods for improved health and performance in forest enterprises FP6
COMPRESSION WOOD Compression wood in conifers - the characterisation of its formation and its relevance to timber quality FP5
ECOSLOPES Eco-engineering and conservation of slopes for long-term protection from erosion, landslides and storms FP5
FRAXIGEN Ash trees for the future FP5
MEFYQUE Modelling and forecasting timber yield and quality in Europe FP5
MOHIEF Modelling of Heterobasidion infection in European Forests FP5
OAKFLOW Intra - and interspecific gene flow in oaks as mechanisms promoting diversity and adaptive potential FP5
PHRAME Plant health risk & monitoring evaluation FP5
PORT CHECK Development of generic on-site molecular diagnostics for EU quarantine pests and pathogens FP6
RAP Realising ash’s potential. FP5
RAPRA Risk assessment of Phytophthora ramorum FP
RECOAL Reintegration of coal ash disposal sites and migration of pollution in the West Balkan area FP6
SENSOR Sustainability impact assessment - tools for environmental, social and economic effects of multifunctional land use in European regions FP6
RIVFUNCTION Integrating ecosystem functioning into river quality assessment and management FP5
VISULANDS Visualisation tools for public participation in managing landscape change FP5

Contact

If you are interested in working with Forest Research on future Framework bids, please contact:

Alison Melvin
Business Development Manager
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH

Tel: +44 (0)1420 526 217
Email: alison.melvin@forestry.gsi.gov.uk