FUTUREFOREST

The project will contribute to achieve the objectives of the European Union for growth, jobs and sustainable development (Lisbon and Gothenburg agendas) by exchange and dissemination of experience, transfer of practices and development of new approaches related to forestry. Resulting in improved knowledge and skills, successful transfer of practices and improved regional and local policies and strategies.

The project aims to ensure that future European forests continue to deliver multiple benefits and to leave future generations forests that are well adapted and resilient to natural risks, including effects of climate change. The project will improve our knowledge on how forestry mitigates the effects of climate change on water balance, soil, biodiversity, and timber and non-timber forest products, its role in carbon sequestration and how to prevent forests from natural risks like fires, pests and pathogens. It will do this by the exchange, sharing and transfer of policy experience, knowledge and good practices through interregional co-operation so providing political decision makers and other stakeholders in all European regions with the knowledge and tools that enable them to decide on effective forestry policies and forest management practices.