About WoodWisdom-Net

Objectives
The strategic objectives of the four-year project WoodWisdom-Net are to deepen the collaboration between the European funding organisations in the field of wood material science in order to coordinate the use of research funds, and to integrate research resources from different countries in order to promote the competitiveness and sustainability of the European forest cluster. The final goal is to open a co-funded joint call in the field of wood material science.

Partners
The coordinator of the WoodWisdom-Net project is Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. Together 18 partners from eight countries are participating in the project. Other participants are Academy of Finland, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Finland, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS), Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), Danish Forest and Nature Agency (DFNA), Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (FTP), Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany (BMBF), The Project Management Organisation Jülich (FZJ-PTJ) from Germany, The Research Council of Norway (RCN), Nordic Forest Research Co-operation Committee (SNS) from Norway, Innovation Norway (INVANOR), and from the 1st of July 2005 Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Forestry Commission (FC) from UK, Scottish Enterprise Dumfries and Galloway (SE), Ministry of Agriculture/ General Direction for Forest and Rural Affairs (MAAPR) from France, Technical Centre for Wood and Furniture (CTBA) from France, and National Institute of Agronomical Research, Department of Forest, Grassland and Freshwater Ecology (INRA) from France.

Background
The European collaboration in the WoodWisdom-Net project arises from the Finnish Forest Cluster Research Programme Wood Wisdom (1998-2001) and its expansion to the Finnish-Swedish co-funded Wood Material Science Research programme (2003-2006).

The main activities of the WoodWisdom-Net
The management structure of the WoodWisdom-Net