Stakeholders’ involvement and needs
Given the predominant academic background of the FORSAID consortium, it is crucial to ensure that the studies and innovations developed within the project will benefit a wide range of stakeholders and practitioners across the EU. A multi-actor approach is deployed as a backbone of the project to maximise impact and achieve transformative change towards a comprehensive forest pests monitoring system. In order to reach this overall goal, we initiated the creation of a Committee of Stakeholders, a panel of relevant practitioners with complementary activities and backgrounds (National Plant Protection Organisation, tree nurseries, forest owners, forest managers, customers, policy makers, urban tree managers) as well as an interest or expertise in forest pests. This committee will be involved at various stages of the project and contribute to the co-creation of the research actions. Different engagement methods will be implemented to benefit from the Committee of Stakeholders expertise:
- Consultation to better understand their concerns about quarantine pests, their regular use of technological tools for pest detection, identification and monitoring, and their need to improve these tools or develop new solutions.
- Share of knowledge and exploration of new challenges, i.e., ethical issues with the deployment of artificial intelligence
- Review and assessment of the digital solutions developed within FORSAID in the field of remote sensing, ground sensors and citizen science.
- Support possible demonstration events.
- Co-creation of deployment guidelines to facilitate tools wider adoption and the upscaling of the monitoring capacities. Decision support tools will be developed based on a joint cost-benefit analysis.
Forest surveillance with artificial intelligence and digital technologies
Ongoing | 2024-2028
- Main funding source
- Horizon Europe (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Italy, Slovenia, France, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ukraine, Switzerland