“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
“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
Solutions for co-operation in forestry and nature tourism
Juhani Pyykkönen
Senior adviser bioeconomy
The Finnish Forest Centre (SMK), Finland
The idea of landscape as a service is not new anymore, but practical solutions are still lacking. The need is clear. Kuusamo-Ruka tourism area [...]
“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
A peppy and energetic kick-off meeting in Copenhagen
Christian Jürgensen
Dansk Skovforening
Danish Forest Association (DFA), Denmark
Shared objectives among diverse stakeholders sparked fruitful discussions and created rewarding results [...]
“We need to increase the interconnection between society’s demands and forest ecosystem services provision”
Mario Torralba
Postdoctoral researcher
The University of Kassel, Germany
Stakeholders have their say in valorising health benefits in Nature Park Medvednica
Martina Belović Kelemen
PI NP Medvednica
30% of Croatian territory is Natura 2000 site. There are 12 nature parks and 8 national parks. One of them is Nature Park Medvednica (NPM), protected as IUCN category V. [...]
“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
Stakeholders strive to multiply solutions for Russian forests
Centre for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Science
Forests in Russia are a resource of strategic significance, and in many regions the forest sector traditionally plays critical role in local economics. It is, for instance, true for our case study region, Voskresensky subregion of Nizhegorodsky region. [...]
“It is important to find the right balance between protection and production”
Tanja Blindbæk Olsen
Head of Political Department
Danish Forest Association (DFA), Denmark
New approaches to meet the demand’s needs
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (Borgo TV)
Stakeholders met in the Tuscan-Emilian community of Borgo Val di Taro to consider the production of their local mushrooms, from supply-oriented to demand-oriented approach [...]
“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
“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
Rialb 2021: forests for water in Catalonia
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Centre de Proprietat Forestal
There was great alignment of different stakeholders around the necessity to implement an innovation mechanism to value forest management and its direct relation with the amount and quality of water. [...]
“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
“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
Poplar and biodiversity: what challenges lie ahead?
Etifor
Protected areas managers of Eastern Lombardy met at Mincio Regional Park to learn from pratices and to figure out why and how should they take actions to sustain the conservation of their areas. The sinergy between SINCERE and Ecopay Connect 2020, a local project financed[...]
“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
“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
First Multi-Actor Group meeting in Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia
Agents from different fields involved with payment for ecosystem services in Bizkaia met within the framework of the SINCERE project. The first MAG meeting of the Bizkaia was organised in collaboration with the Union of Foresters of Southern Europe [...]