Learn more about European operational groups and the innovations they developed in the field of forestry and agroforestry!
FOREST4EU – European innovation partnership network promoting operational group dedicated to forestry and agroforestry is a Horizon Europe project aiming at connecting existing Operational Groups (OGs) from different countries around Europe, to favour the transfer of knowledge and best practices between experts in this field. Operational groups are small projects promoted by groups of farmers, forest managers and local communities sharing the same goal: advancing innovation and good practices in the forestry and agroforestry sector in order to cross national borders to share innovations between different countries.
Five international study visits will take place in five different European countries between April and June 2025. Each study visit will last three days and will be dedicated to one of the five different ITHubs (Wood mobilization, Forest adaptation to climate change, Sustainable forest management and Ecosystem services, Non-wood forest products, Agroforestry systems). The study visits will target different OGs that were selected by the local stakeholders during the National Workshops. The visits are intended to be a chance for foreign practitioners to learn more from Operational Groups, and later adapt and use the knowledge acquired in their own countries while promoting OGs' multi-actor approach and the development of innovations in the forestry and agroforestry sectors. The FOREST4EU project launched the official study visits call on LinkedIn, where it is possible to register on one of the five different ITHub-related study visits.
Additional info
Organiser
GIS, Slovenian Forestry Institute (ITHub 1)
National stakeholders
CNPF, Centre National de la Propriete
National stakeholders
Support
Support Facility for Innovation and Knowledge exchange including EIP-AGRI
EU CAP Network