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TRANSFORMIT project kicks off
On the 1st of January 2024, a new project with the involvement of the FNP-team kicked off. The project “Transforming forest management for multiple ecosystem services and nature conservation via the integrative approach” (TRANSFORMIT) is a 48-month-long project funded via the EU funding scheme Horizon Europe.
The project focuses on demonstrating and improving the effectiveness of integrative forest management (IFM). The researchers and practitioners involved aim to investigate the potential and practical implementations of combining productive forestry and biodiversity conservation. TRANFORMIT will create a Stakeholder Engagement Platform for intensive collaboration, mutual learning and sharing of knowledge among conservation and forestry bodies, forest managers, forest owners, research institutions, certification bodies and other interested stakeholders to exploit synergies and minimise trade-offs in forest management. Within the project, seven Living Labs in seven European countries will be established that will serve as role models.
FNP will be leading tasks related to the investigation of policy frameworks for IFM in European countries, the EU and China, as well as an analysis of enabling and hindering factors for IFM within the Living Labs at the local level. We will also be coordinating the work on international collaborations, including the organisation of an interdisciplinary workshop on the governance and socioeconomic issues related to the IFM.
More information will follow soon!
Staff included: Georg Winkel, Agata Konczal, Wenyuan Liang, and a newly selected PhD student who will start soon.