Links

Partner organisations

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, MMM
Academy of Finland, AKA
Danish Forest and Nature Agency, DFNA
Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences, FTP
Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany, BMBF
Research Centre Jülich GmbH, FZJ-PTJ
The Research Council of Norway, RCN
Innovation Norway, Invanor
Nordic Forest Research Co-operation Committee, SNS
The Swedish Research Council of Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, FORMAS
Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
National Technology Agency of Finland, TEKES
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Forestry Commission (FC)
Scottish Enterprise Dumfries and Galloway (SE)
Ministry of Agriculture/ General Direction for Forest and Rural Affairs (MAAPR)
Technical Centre for Wood and Furniture (CTBA)
National Institute of Agronomical Research, Department of Forest, Grassland and Freshwater Ecology (INRA)

Programmes of the partner organisations

Finland and Sweden
- Finnish-Swedish Wood Material Science and Engineering (2003-2006)

Finland
- Wood Wisdom (1998-2001)
- The National Wood Energy Technology Programme (1999-2004), Tekes
- Value Added Wood Chain Programme (1999-2003), Tekes

Sweden
- Green Materials from renewable resources (2003-2007), VINNOVA
- Wood Manufacturing (2003-2007), VINNOVA

Denmark
- Product Development Scheme for Forestry and Wood Working Industry (1994-)
- Production and material technology including wood (2003 - 2007)

Germany
- Future-oriented Forestry (1998-2003), Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany
- Solution Oriented Concepts for Sustainability - Sustainable Forestry (2004-2008), Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany
- Integrated environmental protection in timber industry (2000-2003), Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany

Norway
- Forest - resources and value creation (2002-2004), The Research Council of Norway
- The Wood Programme (2000-2004), The Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund

Nordic
- Forest Research Programme, Forest Research Networks

Austria
- FFG Bottom up program (continuous), FFG
- Factory of tomorrow (2000 - 2007), Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology - BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie), FFG
- Building of tomorrow (1999 - 2007), Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology - BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie), FFG
- Industrial competence centres and networks program (1999 - 2004), Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology - BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie), FFG
- Kplus competence centres program (1998 - open), Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology - BMVIT (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie), FFG

United Kingdom
- The FC research programme (continuous), Forestry Commission
- Scottish Forest Industries Cluster (2005-2008), Scottish Enterprise

France
- National research network "Wood Construction Environment" (2003-2006), CTBA
- Wood in Construction Environment/ Forest research (2004-2007), Ministry of Agriculture & Ministry of Research, INRA

Other Research Activities

- Finnish science and technology information service
- Scottish Forest Industries Cluster
- ERA-WOOD European Research Area for wood
- U.S. Department of Energy´s Industrial Technologies Program (ITP)
- Agenda 2020. Forest Products Industry Technology Alliance
- Informationssystem Nachwachsende Rohstoffe

EU-links

European Research Area

Forest and wood related research in FP6:
Priority area "Nanotechnology and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices (NMP)"
Priority "Global Change and Ecosystems"

European Commission:
Enterprise Directorate General - Forest-Based Industries
DG Agriculture
Forestry measures-pages

Rural development programmes for 2000-06

European parliament: Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Council of the European Union: Agriculture and Fisheries

Forum-Europe - A Neutral Platform for the European Debate

European Technology Platforms