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Director General Marco Mensink to leave CEPI in March
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After a lengthy and prosperous career in the forest-based industry, CEPI Director General Marco Mensink leaves the organisation to take up the role of Director General of CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council. FTP is thankful for Mensink's strong support in championing innovation for the forest-based sector and wishes him a successful career. The process to appoint a replacement has already started. Candidates can express interest in the position by contacting the CEPI Chairman on a dedicated and confidential e-mail address chairman@cepi.org.
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CEPF announces new Secretary General
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As of 1 March 2016, Emma Berglund takes on the position of Secretary General of the Confederation of European Forest-Owners ( CEPF). Emma currently works as CEPF’s Policy Adviser and Coordinator for the Nordic Forest Family Network. She takes over the position left by Aljoscha Requardt, who has been CEPF’s Secretary General in the past five years. Requardt will continue working in EU forest-related policy affairs in Germany, where he assumes a new position in the Department of International Forest Policy of the Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in mid-April. |
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“The new position offers me and my family great new perspectives. Nevertheless, leaving CEPF and Brussels also makes me sad. Being Secretary General and working with the European forest owners, CEPF members and team as well as many other good colleagues from various organisations, was a real pleasure,” Requardt said when meeting with the CEPF Board in mid-December. FTP thanks for the significant role he has played on his position as Member of the Board and makes votes of a fruitful professional journey.
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Finnish FTP National Support Group adopts the Forest Bioeconomy NRA
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The Finnish National Support group gathered on 27 January 2016 at the premises of the Finnish Forest Industries Federation to discuss and adopt the Forest Bioeconomy National Research Agenda (NRA) document.
Niklas von Weymarn, Metsä Fibre Vice-President for Research and chair of NSG Finland chaired the meeting, which was attended by representatives from the industry, technology providers, academia, funding agencies and state ministries. “Such a broad participation from everyone that is relevant to research and innovation bodes well for the continued success of the Finnish NSG”, commented Johan Elvnert, FTP Managing Director, who also attended the meeting.
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NSG Austria maps its national research and innovation priorities
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NSG Austria has recently carried out an exemplary initiative on setting its national research and innovation priorities. In a consultation round, FTP’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for 2020 (SRA) was used as framework for the survey that asked Austrian stakeholders to rank the relevance of SRA’s research and innovation activities. After a concise analysis of the results, NSG Austria was able to map the main activities that it will focus its efforts on during 2016 and beyond. National Research Agendas helps to activate the forest-based sector at national level and also cooperates shaping the European forest-based sector cooperation for research and innovation.
Read more about the survey and the results achieved by NSG Austria.
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Example of the feedback provided by national stakeholders on the Strategic Theme “Multi-purpose management of forests“ (ST1.2)
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50-years old timber frames turned into brand new windows
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Landfills are usually the final spot where window frames come to rest after the end of their lifetime, if they are not re-processed and converted into new products. The resource efficient reuse of post-consumer wood products have been studied in the project Cascading Recovered Wood (CaReWood) and fully demonstrated by its ReWin window, a prototype of a wood window made of recovered timber from frames of around 50 years old windows.
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During the past year, the Slovenian company M SORA d.d. worked in the development of this prototype in the framework of the CaReWood project, which is coordinated by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In the production process, old larch and meranti windows were disassembled, cleaned and checked for remaining wood preservatives by M SORA and Fraunhofer WKI. Recovered wood was then jointed again and a brand new prototype window was produced.
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The results were good in this step and there is positive expectation for optimal performance in the second life of these windows.
Honoured as the best innovation with a social impact at the 10th Slovenian Innovation Forum 2015, the ReWin window has awarded M SORA with a number of other international prizes and recognitions in the areas of innovation and environmental performance. “This is the type of success that a company may achieve with active participation in international research and technology development projects,” affirmed Mika Kallio, Project Manager of the WoodWisdom-NET+, an initiative of the EC in the framework of the ERA-NET Plus that funds the project.
Read more about other deliverables of the project and its connections with the Circular Economy.
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23 February 2016 (Brussels, Belgium)
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RISI European Conference
29 February to 2 March 2016 (Berlin, Germany)
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BIC General Assembly & Partnering Event
3 and 4 March 2016 (Brussels, Belgium)
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FTP Advisory Committee Meeting
8 March 2016 (Brussels, Belgium)
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2016 has started at full speed ahead for the FTP secretariat. One reason is the start of discussions with the European Commission and the Member States about our priorities for Horizon2020 in the years 2018-2020. A lot is at stake. Approximately half of the €70 billion budget of the Horizon2020 will be distributed in those last three years. Meanwhile, the target year of the 
