Swedish University of Agricultural Science

SLU
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Faculty of Forest Sciences
Karl Jäghagen
Grants Office
E-mail: karl.jaghagen@slu.se
www.slu.se
Growing European Forests
Growing forest stock (Billion m3)
30
Europe in total
(69% increase)
25
20
Finland, France, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Czech Republic/Slovakia,
Slovenia/Bosnia/Serbia/Montenegro/Croatia/ Macedonia,
Great Britain, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Albania, Switzerland
(43% increase)
15
10
Belgium/Luxemburg, Cyprus, Denmark, Ireland, Italy,
Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Germany, Norway and Turkey
(122% increase)
5
0
1980
1985
1990
1995
Year
2000
2005
2010
Forest-based sector contributions to EU policy targets
EU targets
Growth and jobs
75% employment rate by 2020
Increase importance of European
industry from 15.2 % of GDP to 20%
by 2020
Contribution from forests and the forest sector
• 16 million forest owners
• 3 million jobs
• 7% of the total added value
• 8% of total employment of manufacturing
• New biorefinery concepts will offer new opportunities
Poverty and social exclusion
20 million fewer people in or at risk
of poverty and social exclusion
• Employment, particular in rural areas
• Supplying biomass for energy - mitigating the risk of energy poverty
Climate change
In 2020 reduction by 20% of CO2
emissions compared to 1990
• Sequestration and storage of carbon in forest ecosystems
o (9% of the EU’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions)
• Storage of carbon in harvested wood products
• Substitution of fossil-based products
• 50% of total EU renewable energy consumption from wood
• (Renewable energy represents 12.7% of total energy consumption)
Energy
20% share of energy from
renewable sources by 2020
Biodiversity
To halt the loss of biodiversity and
ecosystem services degradation
• 50% of the terrestrial Natura 2000 network is on wooded land
• Integration of biodiversity considerations in managed forests
Deforestation
Halt global forest cover loss and
reduce gross tropical deforestation
• Forests cover 42% of EU’s land surface - increasing
• Worldwide forests cover 30% - decreasing
• Deforestation is accounting for 10% of global CO2 emissions
Water Framework Directive
• Forested catchments are crucial for achieving the goals of sufficient
supply of good quality surface water and groundwater
Umeå - Forest research centre
• SLU, and particulary Umeå, is the
#1 university for forest sciences and
education
• Umeå Plant Science Centre, UPSC
– one of Europe´s most prominent
research environments for
experimental plant science
• Research and education at SLU is
of great importance for the forestry
sector in Sweden
Forest research in many areas
The Faculty of Forest Sciences in Umeå - part of the
largest forest research environment in Western Europe
Contributing to societal challenges
• Bioeconomy (replacing the fossile-based economy)
• Secure, clean and efficient energy
• Smart, green and integrated transport
• Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
Some H2020 proposals that SLU Faculty of Forest
Sciences are involved in
Title:
Topic:
Ready4Change: Making Agriculture and Forestry Ready to sustainably provide goods and
services for Socio‐Ecological Systems in Change
Provision of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry: Putting the concept into practice
(ISIB‐1‐2014) (RIA)
Title:
Topic:
AFoRCE: Advanced Forest Regeneration for Changing Environment
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN)
Title:
Topic:
FORWARD: FOod Residues and Waste: Advancement through Research and Development
A systems approach for the reduction, recycling and reuse of food waste (WASTE-2-2014)
(RIA)
Title:
DIABOLO: Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bioeconomy
outlooks
Improved forest data (ISIB-04a-2014 ) (RIA)
Topic:
Title:
Topic:
ECO-FORSS: ECOlogical Forestry Operations Robotics Support Systems: Designing a new
generation of present and future machines
Robotics (ICT-23-2014) (RIA, IA)
Some open calls in Horizon 2020 of interest for the
Forest faculty at SLU - June 2014
Topic
Deadline
Funding
Challenge 2: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research
SFS-07b-2015: Management and sustainable use of genetic resources
ISIB-03-2015: Unlocking the growth potential of rural areas through enhanced
governance and social innovation
ISIB-04b-2015: Improved forest management models
ISIB-12b-2015: Rural development
1: 2015-02-24
2: 2015-06-11
1: 2015-02-24
2: 2015-06-11
1: 2015-02-24
2: 2015-06-11
2015-06-11
RIA
RIA
RIA
ERA-NET
Challenge 3: Secure, clean and efficient energy
LCE-13-2015: Partnering with Brazil on advanced biofuels
2015-05-05
IA
1: 2014-10-16
2: 2015-03-10
RIA
Challenge 5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
SC5-07-2015: More effective ecosystem restoration in the EU
Industrial Leadership
EO-3-2015: Technology developments for competitive imaging from space
BIOTEC-6-2015: Metagenomics as innovation driver
2014-11-27
1: 2015-02-24
2: 2015-06-11
RIA
RIA
Thank You!