Past Events

VALERIE (VaLorising European Research for Innovation in agriculture and forestry) is a 7th Framework Programme (FP7) project focusing on improving the flow of information between farmers, foresters, advisers and researchers to help drive innovation. Based on ten case studies, VALERIE has pioneered a stakeholder-driven approach to identify farming and forestry issues and match these to […]

The Research Executive Agency (REA), the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) of the European Commission are co-organising an Info Week on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 (SC2) ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’. […]

A sustainable construction and building sector – Introducing wood to obtain climate goals  Wood Building Summit is a meeting point for knowledge sharing on sustainable and efficient wood building. Every second year the summit is held in Skellefteå, a city where the municipality, Academy and industry cooperate in order to innovate and create on […]

Brussels, 6 – 10 November 2017 Following the success of the 1st edition of the "Raw Materials Week", the 2nd edition will take place in Brussels from Monday 6 to Friday 10 November 2017. It will include the EIP’s Annual Conference, the Horizon 2020 Brokerage event and many satellite events organised by Horizon 2020 projects. […]

Register now for the stakeholders’ seminar “Innovation in the forest-based sector: from idea to practice” hosted by FTP and NSG Estonia, as part of the flagship conference under the Estonian presidency of the EU Council: Nature-based Solutions: From Innovation to Common Use. Seminar: Innovation in the forest-based sector Time: Tuesday 24 October 2017, from 14:00 […]

To help catalyze change, strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, the G-STIC Conference series will bring together key stakeholders from Science, Technology and Innovation communities (including the private sector). G-STIC will provide them with a forum to review, discuss and identify internationally relevant technological innovations that can lead […]

WOOD – SCIENCE – ECONOMY  is an international scientific conference organized by the Wood Technology Institute. Both in Poland and abroad scientific conferences have so far been organized separately by the scientists in the field of forestry and those in the field of wood industry. However, the issues regarding forestry and wood management are so complex that they require […]

Sustainable Innovative Mobilization of Wood – SIMWOOD​  Lessons learned from more than 20 pilot projects Experiences shared by SMEs Demonstration of tools and products to support wood mobilisation Panel discussion Forests are a major natural resource, covering 159 million hectares or 37% of Europe’s land area (Eurostat 2013). They have multiple ecological, economic and […]

4th European Forest Week 9-13 October 2017, Warsaw, Poland The fourth European Forest Week will take place 9-13 October 2017.  It will be held in conjunction with Las2017 (‘las’ means ‘forest’ in Polish), the Joint Session of the UNECE Committee of Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). European […]

EFI 2017 Annual Conference will take place in Oslo, Norway on 4-6 October 2017. The event will be organised in cooperation with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and The Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomic Research (NIBIO). The first day of the Annual Conference will be built around the new EFI strategy – how to […]