Transferring research between EU and Australia-New Zealand on forestry and climate change (TRANZFOR)
Description:
The project aims at strengthening research partnerships through staff exchanges and networking activities between 3 European research organisations from France, Portugal and United Kingdom, and 2 organisations from Australia and New Zealand. TRANZFOR addresses scientific issues related to “forestry and climate change”. It is based on a 4 years coordinated joint programme of exchange of researchers for short periods (2 to 12 months), thus providing mobility possibilities to individual researchers and support to research organisations to establish and reinforce long-term research co-operation. The project has developed on the basis of active bilateral cooperation between individual countries and partners which has occurred in the past decade. The IRSES scheme provides a unique opportunity to integrate those past collaboration activities into a coherent programme addressing an issue of high priority on the political agenda of EU, New Zealand and Australia. The programme of exchange is focused on forests, forestry and climate change interactions, including assessment of impacts of climate change on forest ecosystem functioning and development of adaptation and mitigation strategies for forest management. The range of common tree species of interest and of climatic conditions, as well as the strategic importance of planted forests in the 5 partner countries involved, provided a coherent framework and socio-economic background for the different research activities. Five topics have been identified as most relevant for all partners involved in the joint programme: genomics and tree breeding strategies, forest models, environmental services, risk assessment and management, bioenergy. The added-value and gained knowledge have been mainly obtained from:
- intensive exchange of ideas, concepts and methodologies;
- exchange of data and cross-validation of models;
- application and test of conceptual and generic models in contrasted situations;
- comparative analysis of data and research results and joint synthesis and publications.
Project information
Lead
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR)
Partners
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR), Forestry Commission (UK), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (PT), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU), The New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (NZ)
Source of funding
FP 7 - Marie Curie Actions
Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Mar 05 2024