Climate changes and related extreme events, increasingly affect forests and their associated ecological, sociological and economic systems requiring pro-active adaptation measures for maintaining their sustainability. In parallel, the mitigation potentials of forests and forestry wood chains are progressively included in the international climate regime following the Paris agreement. Increased knowledge and better understanding of interactions between climate and forest systems will be crucial in the future for supporting innovations and actions to combat climate change and to reach some of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. In this global context, COST (European Cooperation in Science and...
The presentations of the SCAR National meeting in Poland, taken place in14 November 2018 - Warsaw, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, are now available...
The 2018 update of the Bioeconomy Strategy aims to accelerate the deployment of a sustainable European bioeconomy so as to maximise its contribution towards the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the Paris Agreement.
The update also responds to new European policy priorities, in particular the renewed Industrial Policy Strategy, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Communication on Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation, all of which highlight the importance...
The Cofund ERA-NET SusAn is preparing a joint call for research proposals, together with the ERA-NETs ‘FACCE ERA-GAS’ (“Greenhouse gas mitigation”) and ‘ICT Agri2’ (“ICT and robotics”). Launch of the call: October 2018.
See the pre-announcement of the call at: https://era-susan.eu/
The Bioeconomy Strategic Working Group (BSW), together with the Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), has prepared a Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (SKIA) for the bioeconomy. The document gives a view of the BSW where to put efforts in the EU research and innovation agenda, notably “Horizon Europe” and the revised European Bioeconomy Strategy and Action Plan. In the SKIA, the vision approach has been chosen instead of the mission approach that has been recently...
SCAR Forest has released a report on impact assessment of past and existing ERA-Nets and COST Actions within and related to the European forest-based sector. Its findings contribute to the scope and role of the SCAR strategic group for forests and forestry research and innovation (R&I).
See the document
(Report available in "Strategic Working Group (SWGs) | Forest | Docs and Media")
The presentations of the SCAR National meeting in Hungary, taken place in 25 April 2018 - Budapest, are now available...
The presentations of the SCAR National meeting in Greece, taken place in 24 May 2018 - Athens, are now available...
The presentations of the SCAR National meeting in Italy, taken place in 29 May 2018 - Rome, Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (MIPAAF) are now available...