“SINCERE could lay the foundations for a new European forest related policy”
Georg Winkel
Coordinator SINCERE and Head of Resilience Programme at EFI
The European Forest Institute (EFI), Finland
“Only a clear mechanism that allows to bridge the end user to the forest will be the only way to improve forest revenues”
Enrico Vidale
Technical consultant
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (Borgo TV), Italy
“Showing society the entire process of developing a PES scheme is the starting point”
Teresa Baiges / Jose Antonio Bonet
Forest Engineer / Researcher
Centre de Proprietat Forestal (CPF) /
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC),
Spain
“For politicians forest is still mainly wood”
Yury Gagarin
Leading researcher
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Science (CEPF RAS), Russia
Forests help us face climate change in myriad ways
Bruno Locatelli
Scientist with CIRAD, University of Montpellier, and CIFOR
Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia
“It is important to find the right balance between protection and production”
Tanja Blindbæk Olsen
Head of Political Department
Danish Forest Association (DFA), Denmark
“It is fundamental for everyone to understand what forests provide every day”
Giulia Amato
Project officer
Etifor, Italy
“We need to understand how and why forests might be important for others”
Constanza Parra
Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium
“Being able to use attractive nature areas is essential for the tourism”
Liisa Tyrväinen
Research professor on nature-based tourism and recreation
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Finland
“The path to innovation on forest ecosystem services is a combination of preciseness, adapted management, creativity and communication”
Urs Schroff
Project leader
Pan Bern AG, Switzerland
“The survival of mankind depends on nature and a healthy environment, with forests having a big role in the process”
Martina Jurjević Varga
Chief ranger
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica, Croatia
“The value of forest ecosystem services has been noticed and it is growing”
Juhani Pyykkönen
Senior adviser bioeconomy
The Finnish Forest Centre (SMK), Finland
“It’s not only about fighting climate change”
Carlos Uriagereka Larrazabal
Chief of the Forest Service of Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia DFB, Provincial County of Bizkaia, Spain
“SINCERE will provide a unique opportunity to collaborate with both academic and practice partners all over Europe”
Thomas Lundhede
Associate Professor in Environmental Economics
The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“We need to increase the interconnection between society’s demands and forest ecosystem services provision”
Mario Torralba
Postdoctoral researcher
The University of Kassel, Germany
“Academics have the important role to provide policy makers and business managers with concrete instruments, models and guidelines”
Paola Gatto
Associate Professor
The University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy