Nordic and Baltic projects:
 
 

European projects:

• EFORWOOD
  The aim of the project is to provide methodologies and tools that will, for the first time, integrate Sustainability Impact Assessment of the whole European Forestry-Wood Chain (FWC), by quantifying performance of FWC, using indicators for all three pillars of sustainability; environmental, economic and societal. The project will provide methods to assess the sustainability impacts of modifications of Forestry-Wood Chains as influenced by policy changes, market drivers, or technological innovations. EFORWOOD started 2005 and will run until 2009.
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• BIOSOIL    
  The Biosoil project is a study under the scope of the Forest Focus EC regulation n°2152/2003 that deals with the monitoring of the forest condition for the protection of forest against atmospheric pollution and against forest fires. The Biosoil study started in November 2006 for a duration of three years. The data storage and compilation will be performed by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the French National Forest Inventory (NFI), by contract with the DG JRC. The overall goal of the BioSoil soil project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a systematic forest soil monitoring at the European scale. Under the scope of ICP Forests, a first survey on soil condition was performed in 1994/1996, in which soil chemical analysis and soil profile description were made on Level I plots (based upon a grid of 16 km x 16 km grid). The Biosoil project will carry out a second survey on all Level I plots and on some Level II plots for the participating Member States.
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• COST action ECHOES
  The COST action FP0703 called ECHOES, Expected Climate Change and Options for European
  Silviculture. The main objective of the Action is to mobilise and integrate the existing scientific knowledge for European forest policymakers and managers who have to make decisions on adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.
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• COST action FORMAN
  The COST action FP0601 called FORMAN, Forest Management and the Water Cycle. The Action aims at the enhancement of knowledge on forest–water interactions in Europe, and the elaboration of science-based guidelines for the improvement of the management of forests predominantly designated for the production and storage of water. Forest–water interactions comprise the water resource aspect and also the problem of potential hazard to the human population. Along river systems and in their larger floodplains, peak flow rates may entail devastating floods. It is speculated that the frequency and intensity of such floods are currently increasing owing to global climatic change and a concomitant amplification of extreme weather situations. Water regulation contributing to flood control, and water supply by forest soils and aquifers are among the most prominent forest ecosystem services. However, these are potentially at risk under a changing climate and changing management practices. The state of knowledge concerning actual risk is still very limited. This COST Action will pull together the enormous potential of forest- and water-related research in Europe in an integrated interdisciplinary approach. Thus, it will contribute to overcoming the currently existing fragmentation.
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