Request for expression of interest to the EIP-AGRI Seminar ‘Turning forest innovation into practice’

Dear Madam / Sir . ,

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) and the Support Facility ‘Innovation & Knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI’ are organising the EIP-AGRI Seminar ‘Turning forest innovation into practice’. This two-day event will take place online on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 November 2021, and we are looking for participants!

Find the draft programme outline on the seminar event page
 
Click here to submit your application before 17 October
 
The seminar will be very interactive. Anyone who may be involved in relevant projects or who has experience in improving forest management or improving the cooperation, knowledge and skillset of forest managers and owners is invited to join. Participants will include forest owners, foresters, farmers, schools, vocational education and training organisations, advisory services, researchers, EU regions and Member States amongst others. All participants will have the opportunity to actively meet and exchange ideas.

The event will explore how forest innovation takes place by focusing on:

• Bringing innovation closer to rural areas by learning how to stimulate cooperation amongst different actors in forest value chains, and enhancing  positive spill-over effects, such as new products or value chains, services or business models, local jobs, or the valorisation of local biomass and resources.
• Stimulating the uptake of innovations and fostering cooperation in sustainable forest management practices, by connecting relevant projects and initiatives in the domain of the 4 proposed themes.
• Bridging knowledge and practice, with a particular focus on a supportive environment for social innovation and on small and/or unmanaged forest holdings. Exploring ways to scale-up forest management, foster cooperation or promote vocational training or advice.
• Contributing to the research agendas and implementation of the new EU forest strategy for 2030 by identifying needs from practice that are related to the supportive environment for innovation.
• Inspiring the setting-up of new initiatives that address key challenges of European forests, and particularly the creation of new EIP-AGRI Operational Groups (OGs), especially in those countries and regions with a lower ratio of OGs on the subject.

If you are interested in participating, please fill in the application form before 17 October 2021, 23:59 CET.
Please note that, given the limited number of available places, we cannot accommodate all requests for participation. The organisers will assess all applications received and will only confirm the attendance of those who will be selected by early November.
As a general rule, one participant per project / organisation will be accepted. However, the participation of forest owners, foresters or farmers is strongly encouraged, and a second participant per organisation / project can be exceptionally accepted if at least one of them is a forest owner, forester or farmer.

Please forward this information to others who may be interested in attending the event!

For any questions, please contact seminar@eip-agri.eu

Yours faithfully, on behalf of the organising team

Beatriz Guimarey
Task Manager EIP-AGRI Seminar ‘Turning forest innovation into practice’
Innovation & Knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI

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About the EIP-AGRI

The European Innovation Partnership ‘Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability’ (EIP-AGRI) is one of five EIPs which have been launched by the European Commission in a bid to promote rapid modernisation of the sectors concerned, by stepping up innovation efforts. The EIP-AGRI aims to foster innovation in the agricultural and forestry sectors by bringing research and practice closer together – in research and innovation projects as well as via the EIP-AGRI network.

EIPs aim to streamline, simplify and better coordinate existing instruments and initiatives, and complement them with actions where necessary. Two specific funding sources are particularly important for the EIP-AGRI: the EU Research and Innovation framework, Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe, as well as the EU Rural Development Policy.

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