PowerPointesitys

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European Forest Institute EFI


August 2009
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Our changing world

• Globalisation and changing trade relationships
• Demographic changes
• Lifestyles and other socio-economic driving
  forces
• Climate change
• Biodiversity issues
• Global and pan-European policy processes

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Global picture also affects Europes forests

• Europes increasing forest cover
• Forest biomass
• Europes forest also provide a wide range of
  essential ecosystem services, e.g. drinking water
  and mitigation of climate change
• Recreation and tourism, promoting peoples health
  and wellbeing

• Policy makers need reliable, timely and
  policy-relevant information
• EFI is well placed to cater for these needs

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From an idea into reality
The number of member organisations reached 128 in
2000
24 member organisations
ROs
2008
1993
2005
2007
2000
2003
EFI Association launched
The first Project Centres established
Legal status of International organisation
First Regional Office established in Barcelona
Signing of EFI Convention
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EFI organisation
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Personnel the most important resource

• Personnel
• -app. 60 staff members from 20 countries at EFI
  HQ and ROs
• -A total of 42 person-years
• Director
• Risto Päivinen (10/2000)

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Finances

• Sources of funding in 2008
• Total Budget in 2009 5,5 Mill EUR

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Vision Strategy

• Key functions

• Leading institution conducting and advocating
  forest research
• facilitating forest research networking at the
  pan-European level.
• acknowledged provider of and
• a major contact point for unbiased,
  policy-relevant information on European forests
  and forestry.

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Activities
Networking
Advocacy
Information
Research
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Networking

• EFI provides
• a platform,
• an effective infrastructure and
• networking services to its Associate Members and
  the forest research community as whole.

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Convention on EFI
Convention ratified Signatory
countries
August 2009
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Regional Offices

• Reflect the truly European scope of EFI
• Strengthen EFI network
• Activities consistent with the EFI Strategy
• Integral part of the Insitute
• EFIMED (2007),EFICENT and EFIATLANTIC launched
• EFICEEC and EFISEE to be launched later this year

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Associate and Affiliate Members of EFI

• EFI has about 130 member organisations in over
• 30 countries (August 2009)
• Affiliate Members (outside Europe)
• Canada
• Japan
• United States

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EFI Project Centres

• Address regional or topical research needs with a
  European dimension
• Network nodes of EFI consisting of EFI members
  and other relevant partners
• Three new initiatives under consideration

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EFI Board 2008-

• Konstantin von Teuffel, chairman (Germany)
• Andrey Selikhovkin (Russia)
• Jim Lynch (UK)
• Miroslav Benko (Croatia)
• Liisa Saarenmaa (Finland)
• Birger Solberg (Norway)
• Harald Mauser (Austria)
• José Antonio Bonet Lledós (Spain)

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Research

• EFI has four Research Programmes co-ordinated at
  the Headquarters
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Markets and Socio-Economics
• Policy and Governance
• Forest Resources and Information
• App. 39 research projects and development
  projects/actions yearly.
• Research is carried out also at EFI Regional
  Offfices, and at EFI Project Centres in various
  locations in Europe.

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Research priorities, 1(2)

• Foresight studies on future conditions of
  forest-based well-being in Europe
• State-of-art of forest research in Europe
• Future development and potential of European
  forests as renewable resources for wood, energy,
  water and other goods and services
• Effects of forest management and the forest value
  chain on economic, environmental, social and
  cultural sustainability in Europe

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Research priorities, 2(2)

• Impacts of climate change and other (a)biotic
  disturbances on forests to economy, ecology,
  social conditions and human safety, and
  development of adaptation and mitigation
  strategies in forest management
• Supply, demand, trade and value chains of timber
  and other forest products and services
• Competitiveness of forest resources for energy
  and material products in relation to other
  natural resources
• New modes and best practices of governance in the
  forest sector
• New emerging policy needs

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Information

• EFI is committed to compiling and disseminating
  forestry information at the European level.
• Information services
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• EUROFOREST portal
• http//forestportal.efi.int
• European Forest map mapping services
• Mediterranean Forest Database

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Information

• EFI publication series
• Research Reports
• Policy Briefs
• Discussion Papers
• Proceedings
• EFI News

• Events
• Each year, EFI organises or co-organises over 10
  events across Europe.
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Summer/Winter schools

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Advocacy

• EFI represents forest research community in
  common projects with partners, committees and
  international policy processes.
• EFI expresses the voice of the forest science
  community by providing
• Statements
• Discussion papers, policy briefs
• Policy relevant events

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Thank you for your attention!