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Representatives of European forest owners and managers, CEPF, EUSTAFOR and Copa-Cogeca, would like to share their views on the launch of the ESA Space for Bioeconomy Task Force.

The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU organised a meeting for EU Forest Directors, in Lakitelek, and one for EU Nature Directors, in Tata. CEPF representatives took part in both meetings.

During the EU Forest Directors General’s Meeting in Hungary, CEPF, Copa-Cogeca and Eustafor presented three joint statements on the topics discussed: Vulnerability of forests under climate change; Carbon storage in forests and wood products ; Innovation directions in forest.

With the primary goal of enhancing research and innovation funding and governance within the forestry sector, EUFORE aims to establish a sustainable, transnational, co-creative environment for defining, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive research and innovation (R&I) agenda. EUFORE is actively conducting three important surveys to gather insights from stakeholders within the forestry sector.

The European project EUFORE is currently working on a strategic R&I agenda for forestry and the forest-based sector (SRIA), which will be used for the establishment of a future European partnership on Forest and Forestry.

To this aim, the project is running a stakeholder engagement survey to collect the views and opinion of stakeholders regarding the content of the future partnerships strategic research agenda.