1. SCAR FOREST
Strategic Working Group on Forests and Forestry Research and Innovation
Workshop on international cooperation in research and innovation for the future European forest-based sector
Brussels, 5 February 2019

2. Opening of the Workshop
Welcome everybody for this SCAR FOREST/CASA Workshop on International cooperation in research and innovation for the future European forest-based sector
The forest-based sector is essential worldwide and affected by major, increasing and quite different issues on biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change, bioeconomy, illegal timber logging, deforestation, etc.
Wood is a renewable, energy-efficient, natural resource with multiple properties: aesthetic, insulating, acoustic, mechanical, chemical...
The forest-based sector (multiple owners, SMEs) and forest-related policies (biodiversity, agriculture, climate and energy, bioeconomy, sustainable development, forest) are fragmented.

3. Opening of the Workshop
 high relevance of a dedicated strategy.
For decades, European partnerships have been developed
with the EC support of research projets (Framework programmes, top-down approach)
With EC and MS support : COST actions, ERA-Nets
Still more important today with the multiplication and the intensification of challenges
Contribution of the forest-based sector to major issues (biodiversity, bioeconomy, resilience...)
The need for sectoral consistency

4. Opening of the Workshop
Some questions
What is the future of current cooperation activities?
FP top-down projects
COST and other concerted actions,
ERA-Nets
What are additional emerging issues?
Societal well-being, interactions between ecosystem services, life-cycle assessments, economic viability, sustainability under uncertainty, opportunity to implement new technologies...
What is the relevance of a broader scope in line with
New York Declaration on Forests
Paris Agreement on climate change
Sustainable Development Goals?

5. Opening of the Workshop
Program outline
Opening from SCAR FOREST, CASA and EC
First session on “Situation and needs about international cooperation on research and innovation in the forest-based sector” with speakers from FTP, ForestValue, Bio-East, UNECE/FAO, University of Freiburg…
Coffee break and preparation of initial groups of the World Café
Second session with messages from other participants
Lunch break
World Café in three groups
How to rebound after recent and present activities?
What emerging issues should be considered and how?
How to broaden the scope of international cooperation?
Conclusions from the World café, discussion and closing.

6. THANK YOU for your attention jean-luc.peyron(at)gip-ecofor.org
annabelle.amm(at)gip-ecofor.org

8. Reminder on missions and objectives
SCAR FOREST terms of reference run from 2016 to 30 June 2019
SCAR FOREST missions:
to be a source of advice for a coherent and ambitious forest-based research and innovation area.
to promote and strengthen transnational research and cooperation to meet the challenges of adaptation to and mitigation of climate changes, and of increasing sustainability and competitiveness of the EU's forest-based sector
Specific objectives
Promote forest-based system and value-chain approaches with consideration of other sectors
Provide strategic intelligence by mapping national forest research and innovation capacities, policies, strategies
Facilitate knowledge-based input to public debates
Provide advice on research and innovation to the implementation of national forest policies and EU forest strategy