CARE4C
Carbon smart forestry under climate change
Academic Partners within CARE4C are the following:
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Description: TUM is acknowledged as an university of excellence in Germany concerning research, development and education having 13 faculties, 4 integrative research centers and 6 scientific core institutes. 507 professors do highly qualified research and teach nearly 3,6000 students, 33,000 being female and 20,000 coming from foreign countries. 885 PhDs awarded doctoral degree in 2012. TUM offers a graduate school that is open for hosted PhDs. A huge scientific library is located on the campus, enabling researchers' online access to most research journals. TUM is part of the Weihenstephan Center of Forestry. This association of academic, applied science and practice related research and education institution offers a communication platform between forest research and practice. The FGYS and the IFM are part of the School of Life Science at TUM forming a major faculty of TUM. FGYS has long-term expertise in forest mensuration, analysis of forest ecosystem functioning and modelling of forest growth. Main research foci are analysing mixing effects on single trees and stand level. Staff members of the chair command enhanced skills in applied statistics and dendroecological analyses. IFM has outstanding experience in land use research and optimization und risk to obtain sustainable management strategies. |
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Description: The University of Padova (UP), will participate to the proposal with the Department TESAF. New technologies, tradition, interdisciplinary studies and historical importance are key elements that make the Department TESAF stand out as a reference point in land management, agriculture and forestry both at local as at European scale. The Department TESAF reflects a diversity of disciplines, including ecology, forest management, land and forestry economics and policy, hydrology, soil conservation and agricultural and forest engineering. The Department TESAF intensively works with a multidisciplinary approach on forest management practices, harvesting and extraction technologies and on the socio-economic issues for the wood sector. The Department TESAF has currently active collaborations with local and regional administrations as with private corporations to support the economical, technical and environmental sustainability of the forest exploitation which will be a key factor for the successful of project. The wide networking with national wood biomass associations, forest owners and forest enterprises association and local, regional and national public institutions will be useful to compare, discuss and evaluate the actions and the activities of the project. The main activity of the Department TESAF is related to the research and to transfer the research result at regional and international scale. The management of the research and cooperation activities is supported by 48 permanent researchers and teaching staff and 30 technicians, librarians and administrative employees; the Department TESAF is currently hosts 40 PhD students. There has been a recent association with TUM through academic and research collaborations over the past recent years. The contacts with SU are also well established. |
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Description: BFH has about 6.000 enrolled students in six departments located throughout the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. BFH pursues an international strategy for student exchange while at the same time close collaborating with national industry. Graduate students can take advantage of exchange programs as the University of Applied Sciences has multiple agreements with recognized institutions abroad. National industry can profit from joint projects in which our results in applied research are commercialized. HAFL as one of the departments of BFH is an accredited training and competence centre for forestry in Switzerland. It plays a central role in the development and implementation of novel solutions in sustainable forest management. Our research and development is innovative, practical and need oriented. We are both, nationally and internationally oriented. |
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Description: The FAST conducts research in diverse disciplines including ecology, botany, forest management, restoration ecology, agricultural economics and agricultural sciences and is specialized for mountain environments. The FAST has a profile at the interdisciplinary level with focus on mountain ecosystems. The FAST has currently active collaborations with local and regional administrations to support the economical, technical and environmental sustainability of the mountain ecosystems management. The main activity of the FAST lies in research and dissemination of research result from the local to the international scale. The management of the research and cooperation activities is supported by more than 40 permanent researchers and teaching staff and more than 10 technicians, librarians and administrative employees; the FAST currently hosts 65 PhD students. There has been a recent association with TUM through academic and research collaborations over the last years. The contacts with UP and the US are also established. |
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Description: SGGW with its 200-years tradition is the one of the oldest and largest academic institution in Poland. At present, SGGW consists of 13 faculties with over 1,300 university staff which teach 27,000 enrolled students. According to different national rankings, SGGW is considered as the leader in terms of research quality, education and innovation among all life science universities in Poland. Recently, SGGW has been awarded for „The most innovative and creative university in Poland at creating job perspectives”. SGGW collaborates with 170 international partners from all continents. DS is a part of Faculty of Forestry. DS has a staff of 16 people which are focusing on the following research areas: forest genetics and nurseries, spatial and temporal dynamics of regeneration in managed and unmanaged forests; growth, dynamics and structure of monoculture and mixed stands under the influence of different silvicultural treatments; dynamics and structure of virgin forests; optimization of silvicultural planning under climate change in stands managed by improved shelterwood system and selection system; close-to-nature silviculture for adapting temperate European forests to climate change. In terms of education, we offer not only regular course to enrolled students (>2000) and trainings for State Forests Enterprise in Poland, but also an international master program in Forest Information Technology (in collaboration with Eberswalde University of Sustainable Development) and varied courses given in English for Erasmus Students. Currently also 20 PhD students are enrolled at DS. |
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Description: INIA is an autonomous Public Research Organisation (OPI) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The Center for Forestry Research (INIA-CIFOR) has the functions of scientific research, technological development and innovation, scientific-technical training, national and international cooperation and the provision of scientific-technical services related to the field of forestry. INIA-CIFOR works in close collaboration with public research organisations, universities and technological centres through mixed R&D projects and collaborates with different institutions in Europe, America and Africa and in international organizations (EFI, IUFRO, CGIAR-Biodiversity International, CIFOR, ICRAF, EFIMED, Silva Mediterranea and EUFORGEN). The main research objectives of the Department of Silviculture and Management of Forest Systems focus on: spatial and temporal dynamics of regeneration depending on silviculture and environment; forest growth, dynamics and structure and the role of silviculture as adaptive management strategy to climate change; characterization and valuation of wood, non-wood forest products, services, wildlife, role as carbon sinks; forest crops for the production of biomass as energy source; forest modelling. |
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Description: UVA is one of the most important centres of Higher Education in Spain. It counts on four campuses -Valladolid, Palencia, Segovia and Soria-, over 100 degrees, 80 doctoral programs (14 with Honor Mention) and 68 postgraduate degree, accredited international relations and prestigious research centres. On average, nearly 25,000 students enroll each year, counts on more than 2,500 teachers and nearly 1,000 people dealing with administration tasks and other services. Over 60% of students do internships in companies and other institutions. It offers a comprehensive range of double international degrees, and promotes the transfer of research results. The UVA has 430 km2 for researching activities, 5 buildings devoted exclusively to research, 4 Certified Laboratories Industry serving nearly 300 research laboratories, 19 research institutes and all departments needed. It just open new landmark Lab-building, called LUCIA (0% CO2 emissions; 0% energy consumption, with LEED Platinum certification and Green Certification), with 2,100 m2 for researching related to efficiency energy buildings and agrofood (nutrition, food and dietary laboratories). The UVA manages around 852 research projects financed through competitive public R+D+i calls (European, national or regional), and approximately 500 contracts and agreements aimed at the transfer of knowledge and technology, amounting to an average value of over fifteen million Euros per annum. Moreover, its researchers take part in almost 250 further projects and contracts managed by other institutions. UVA has been taking part in a very active way in different European projects, at research or training level, during the last 20 years. There is a long experience in international projects developed by different groups of research in the University and different fields of knowledge. The project in UVA will be managed by the Office of European Projects of UVA, located in the General Foundation of the University of Valladolid (Fundación General de la Universidad de Valladolid – FGUVA) by specific delegation since 1996. The agreement between both organizations empowers FGUVA to manage the European projects in which researchers and experts of UVA are involved. The FGUVA is a non-profit institution totally controlled by UVA, created in order to handle the administrative and financial tasks of UVA in R&D European projects, including issues related to employment and payment of personnel, purchase of equipment, consumables, etc. FGUVA does not perform technical or scientific work/ tasks in the project. The contribution of FGUVA is free of charge and always used under the premises of UVA. |
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Description: SU is acknowledged as a university of excellence in South Africa and Africa. The Department of Forest and Wood Science has long been associated with TUM and UP through research collaborations. The Department addresses the entire forestry value chain in both teaching and its research activities. It addresses all forest resources in the region, which include plantations, natural forests and South Africa's vast woodlands areas. The research focus is on Precision Forestry, Integrated Land-use Management, Bio-refining, and Wood Quality through the value chain. Its particular strengths are the analysis of forest ecosystem, modelling of forest growth and dendro-ecological analyses. A combination of forest economics and forest operations research has been at the forefront of its research and outreach activities over the past 20 years. |
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Description: VNU University of Science, an integral part of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, ranks among a few universities in Vietnam with long-standing tradition. VNU-HUS is a leading university of Vietnam in Science and is dedicated to conducting research in basic science and applied. The University is committed to initiating, propagating and promoting science knowledge; providing the society with a constant supply of high-qualified intellectual workers as well as high-quality scientific and technological products; actively contributing to the basic science development of the country. |
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