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

Acronym	Project	Framework 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

Acronym	Project	Framework 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