Non-academic Partners within CARE4C are the following:

Forest Enterprise Traunstein, Germany (FETS)  Description: Traunstein is a town with a population of 20,400 (7/2014) in the south-eastern part of Bavaria, Germany, and is the administrative center of a much larger district of the same name. The town serves as a local government, retail, health services, transportation and educational center for the wider district. The town is situated at the heart of a region called Chiemgau, approximately 11 km east of Lake Chiemsee between Munich and Salzburg (Austria), 15 km north of the Alps, and 30 km west of Salzburg. The historic market square, Bavarian hospitality, local breweries, outdoor sports facilities, Easter Monday horse parade and connections with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, contribute to the town's profile as a tourist destination. 605 ha forest area belonging to the municipal property. As already 30 years ago the conversion of dominating spruce stands has started, meanwhile structured mixed stands are prevailing. The growing condition are quite good and based on the last forest inventory (535 permanently marked plots) the total stock is about 340m³/ha and the estimated running increment is 12m³/ha. The forest management planning in 2010 appointed an annual prescribed cut of 7,000m³/ year. The provision of several ecosystem services (ESS) plays an important role. The recreational function and different aspects of nature conservation (e.g. NATURA 2000) have the most serious implications for daily business in forest management. As a special feature 85% of the forest area is officially classified as important for education and research.
Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz, NRW, Germany  Forstliches Bildungszentrum für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik (FBZ) Description: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the most populous and densely populated state in the Federal Republic of Germany. Within the radius of 500 km around the state capital Düsseldorf live almost 40 percent of the European population. They generate some 45 percent of all purchasing power within the European Union. FBZ belongs to the portfolio of the States Enterprise for Forestry and Timber North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW). The main tasks are to manage the state forest and to provide forestry services. Owner is the Government of Northrhine- Westphalia represented by Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection.The main activities of FBZ NRW are basic and further education as forest education centre for forestry in NRW and research and development in forest technical production. It is one of four training centres all over Germany for this kind of training. So they have excellent contacts to German machine entrepreneurs because of long and deep cooperation.
föra - fora forest technologies SLL, Spain (FORA) Description: föra is a young small enterprise based in Soria and Barcelona and founded by two PhDs in forest modelling with a wide background in research and strong links with universities and research centres. föra is focused on technifying the forest sector through technology transfer, forest innovation and specialized education. The main working areas are: i) assessment of forest resources: innovative forest inventories using LiDAR technology, development of forest models (growth and yield, site index, taper, etc.) and new tools for modern forest planning and management, among others, ii) forests and global change: carbon footprints, forest carbon budgets, carbon offsets through forests, carbon consulting, etc., iii) technological innovation: sensorization in forests and industry, new tools and apps for enhanced forest management, forest visualization with drones, etc., iv) training and technological transfer: specialized forest education (LiDAR, statistics, forest modelling, carbon footprint, etc.) and technology transfer to stakeholders and partners in research projects.
Bialowieza National Park, Poland (BPN) Description: BPN (NE Poland, 52°45´ N; 23°50´ E) belongs to the oldest national park in Poland and whole Europe. Formally, established in 1947 and previously (since 1921) functioned as a part of the Polish State Forests. The forest, especially its core part (Strict Reserve) is one of the best preserved temperate forest ecosystems, which is least disturbed by human activities and contains by far the largest virgin old-growth stands in lowland Europe. Since 1979 this area of great natural interest has been also on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In 1996 area of the BPN was expanded to 105 km2. Here, many commonly recognized tree species in Europe vary in form and outstanding size. Being a very specific habitat, it is considered to be an important reference object for near-natural silviculture and for multifunctional forestry in the whole of Europe.
Agresta, Spain (AG) Description: AG is an SME (a cooperative company) operating in Spain that has a broad technical and human infrastructure consists of a large team over 40 experienced professionals with experience exceeding 15 years. Agresta is focused on providing services, technology and innovation services in the forest sector. Our main products and services are: forest carbon consulting, LiDAR technology applied to forest resource management, Natural Environment Engineering, Geographic Information System & GPS.
Province Bolzano, Forest management, Italy (PB) Description: The forest service of the province is embedded as the department 32 “Forestry” in the governance structure of the administration of the autonomous province of Bolzano - South Tyrol. It comprises the forest corps of the province as well as technical and administrative civil service employees. According to its self-conception, the forest service of the province is responsible for the balance of utilization and protection of biotopes. For the purpose of a sustainable development of the mountain area, it works in specific for the economic and supra-economic output of the forest and the mountain meadows and pastures. The forest law of the province (law of the province from the 21st of October 1996, no. 21) has, as a public interest, the aim to protect all soils by a sustainable use of the forest and the mountain pastures and meadows. In specific, the forest is supposed to be maintained in its entirety and its diverse functions. To achieve this goal, Province Bolzano follows four strategies: i) delimit the free availability of the own land (e.g. cutting, clear-cutting and the practice of pasturing are subject to permission); ii) carry jobs by own management for landowners (e.g. construction of infrastructures, support structures, afforestation); iii) to subsidice management activities; iv) to offer a broadly based consulting service.
Forstbetrieb Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland (FBB) Description: FBB is managing 3666 ha of own forest land and 377 ha of entrusted forest land. With these more than 4000 ha FBB is one of the larger forest owners in Switzerland. Own machinery is used for harvesting operations. The main forest area (3200 ha) is located around Bern in a radius of about 20 km. The other 466 ha are distributed in the Canton Bern and Fribourg. Each forest is attributed to a priority function by FBB. Priority functions are “wood production”, recreation, ecology, conservation and sustainable use of natural forests and protection of endangered species. Every priority function defines the kind of forest measures, which have to been taken. Wood production forests make 80% of the surface. They are managed traditionally. The main measure in recreation forests is security (about 10% of surface). With the exception of some ecology forests (reserves), all forests are exploited sustainably and the regeneration is effected mainly by natural regeneration. About 30’000 cm of wood are harvested every year in the the forests of FBB. The forest management procedures are mainly with harvester and forwarder. All of the forests are used for recreation purposes. The capital of Bern has about 100’000 citizens. During the day many people, who work for instance in the federal and cantonal administration use the forests for recreation breaks. This does not only allowing the population to pursue leisure activities, but to experience the ecology system of forests at first hand. Thus, the awareness of the ecological importance of forests is increased There is a high attention on forest management procedures.
Merensky Timber, South Africa (HM) Description: HM is an integrated timber company. Merensky owns four sawmills and leases/owns/ manages 65,000 ha of forestry land planted mainly to Pine but also to some Eucalyptus sawlogs. The company is FSC certified. It funds and participates in collaboratively funded forestry and sawmilling research across the value chain. In-house research is focused mainly on tree breeding, with some downstream processing research. There is an interest to more clearly understand the impact of climate change on the portfolio of forest products from a portfolio modelling perspective.
SCIMOND, Germany (SCI) - Scientes Mondium UG Description: SCIMOND – Scientes Mondium UG (haftungsbeschränkt) offers scientific services in the field of forest and environmental sciences. The team consists of experienced scientists with international reputation and has relevant experience in the evaluation of complex facts on climate-plant interaction using empirical and ecophysiological process modelling. Part of the past and present research focus on methods for analysing and modelling tree growth and wood structure at the tree ring and the anatomical level. The portfolio also includes close remote range sensing technologies such also terrestrial laser scanning and drone sensing, including the feature extraction of relevant structural forest and tree data.
State Forest, Poland (LASY) Description: LASY - the State Forest Enterprise in Poland is part of the Polanów Forest District (PFD). PFD is located in northern Poland. LASY currently manages 80% of Polish forests. PFD manages almost 18 thousands hectares of forests.