Mapping innovation across Europe
A map of innovative ways in which forests are being employed and managed to provide benefits to people has been launched by the SINCERE project.
The map is based on an Inventory of Innovative Mechanisms (IM) produced by partners in the project, which highlights good practices at a European scale that could be replicable elsewhere. Openly available on the SINCERE website, the map allows the user to view a multiplicity of cases obtained by consulting publicly available information, and subsequently integrated and confirmed by experts (validated) in many cases.
The Inventory of Innovative Mechanisms has been established to provide information for landowners and managers who are increasingly encouraged to manage their forests to deliver forest ecosystem services.
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Second round of stakeholder meetings
Input from stakeholders is a vital ingredient in the development of the SINCERE Innovation Actions. The second series of meetings took place in Spring 2019. Some groups opted to narrow the focus of the discussion to deal with specifics while others expanded the reach and scope to include more stakeholders. As all SINCERE Innovation Actions are at very different stages, the meetings are tailored specifically to meet the exact needs of the case study at that moment. Later in the year, Innovation Action leaders will share experiences to ensure cross-fertilisation continues, another important component of the project.
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Bizkaia, Spain | Borgo Val di Taro, Italy | Copenhagen, Denmark | Cusco, Peru | Eastern Lombardy, Italy | Flanders, Belgium | Kuusamo-Ruka, Finland | Medvednica, Croatia | Olten, Switzerland | Rialb, Catalonia | Voskresensky, Russia
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Upcoming events: project review and general assembly
To ensure most effective use of public funds, Horizon 2020 projects are rigorously monitored by the donor, the European Commission. Partners in SINCERE are now reporting on the first 18 months of the project and will meet with the Commission's project officer in September for a day of presentations and questions on the project's achievements to date and next steps.
Then the whole consortium meets at the end of the year to review work done and plan the next phase of the project. The third SINCERE General Assembly takes place in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, on 11-12 December.
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Pro-active management of forests to combat climate change-driven risks workshop. Istanbul, Turkey, 3-4 September 2019
EFI Annual Conference 2019 Aberdeen, UK, 18-20 September 2019
Society for Ecological Restoration 8th World Conference on Ecological Restoration Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 September 2019
International Union of Forest Research Organisations 25th World Congress 2019 Curitiba, Brazil, 29 September – 5 October 2019
Koli Forum 2019 – Wealth, health and wellbeing from Nordic forests Koli National Park, Finland, 9-10 October 2019
Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference 2019 Hanover, Germany,
21-25 October 2019
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Stakeholders' play key role in Finnish Innovation Action
Mats Lindfors, responsible for toursim in Kuusamo and Ruka, Finland, explains the importance of forests for nature tourism in Finland and how stakeholder collaboration in the SINCERE project is making a difference. Watch now!
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Meet the partners
Martina Jurjević
Chief ranger at Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica, Croatia
“The survival of mankind depends on nature and a healthy environment, with forests having a big role in the process’”
Read more All interviews
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Publications
Why do payments for watershed services emerge? A cross-country analysis of adoption contexts
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What's new in Forest Ecosystem Services?
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