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FTP – EU-Russia co-operation

Claes-Göran BeckemanProject Director, FTP

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FTP activities 2007

Support in connection to first and second FP7 Calls. Promote FTP and its SRA within FP7. Mobilize and encourage National Support Groups

(NSGs) and their stakeholders. Establish FTP database. Coordinate with other Technology Platforms. Communication.

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FP7: Structure

Seventh Framework Programme (2007-20013)

Specific Programme „Cooperation“

Theme 2 „Food, agriculture and biotechnology“

Work Programme 2007

Activity 2.3: Life Sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes

Area 2.3.1: Improved biomass and plant based renewables

Topic: KBBE-2007-3-1-04: FOREST PRODUCTS – New forest based products and processes

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First 2007 call for proposals

• Call identifier: FP7-KBBE-2007-1

• Publication: 22. December 2006

• Deadline: 2. May 2007; 17:00 h Brussels local time

• Single stage submission process

Funding Schemes:

• Small or medium-scale collaborative projects (< 3 million € EC funding)

• Large-scale collaborative projects ( 3 - 6 million € EC funding)

• Coordination and Support Actions (< 1 million € EC funding)

FP7 Theme 2 - Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology

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Activity 1: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments

Area 1.2: Increased sustainability of all production systems (agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture); Plant health and crop protection

Keywords: improved/novel breeding strategies (e.g. resistance breeding, marker assistant breeding, genetically designing trees with enhanced physiological characteristics), reduce the vulnerability of trees towards the impact of biotic hazards, pests, diseases and improve adaptation to changing environmental conditions due to climate change.

Funding scheme: Large collaborative project Expected impact: adapt production strategies to more rapidly

changing market and environmental conditions.

KBBE-2007-1-2-07: Novel forest tree breeding

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KBBE-2007-1-2-08: Developing new methods for valuing and marketing of currently non-marketable forest goods and services

Activity 1: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest and aquatic environments

Area 1.2: Increased sustainability of all production systems (agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture); Plant health and crop protection

Keywords: new valuation methods to assess the socio-economic impact of a wide range of forest externalities, develop new or improved marketing concepts and integrated production methods for non-wood forest products. […] goods, benefits and services such as clean water and air, recreation, hazard protection and prevention, landscape, etc..

Funding scheme: Small collaborative project Expected impact: viable income for forest owners, future stability

of European forests, sustainable rural development

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Activity 3: Life Sciences and Biotechnology for sustainable non-food products and processes

Area 3.1 Improved biomass and plant renewables Key-words: […] high added value products made of wood based

fibres with high durability and usability […] replacement of “unsustainable products” […] and hazardous components […] environmentally friendly biobased products

Funding scheme: Large collaborative project Expected impact: diversification of the forest industries and

opportunity to apply post-genomic knowledge in the production of derived forest products

KBBE-2007-3-1-04: Forest products – new forest based products and processes

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NMP-2007- 4.0-1 : Advanced wood-based composites and their production

Activity 4.4: Integration of technologies for industrial applications Key-words: […] improving production efficiency is not alone sufficient for

maintaining the competitiveness of the European forest-based industry. […] develop new high added value products produced by new resource efficient production concepts. […] intelligent recombination of specific physical properties […] for example replacing lignin with silicon or ceramics in the wood nanostructure can yield radically new product properties.

Funding scheme: Large-scale integrating projects Specific features: […] a significant SME participation is expected Expected impact: placing sustainability at the forefront of cost control and

competitive advantage as well as emphasising its role in industry's social responsibility […] develop several new product families based on new production concepts that exploit the potential of wood-based composites across a variety of applications in the health, electronics and food sectors, as well as in the fields of construction, furniture, packaging, speciality papers, vehicles and textiles.

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ENERGY.2007.3.3.1 : Forest-based biorefinery

ACTIVITY ENERGY 3: Renewable Fuel Production AREA ENERGY 3.3: Biorefinery The biorefinery concept aims at maximising the value derived

fromer biomass feedstock by using all of its components. Key-words: Development of advanced fractionation and

conversion technologies to be integrated in a pulp mill for the combined production of new bioproducts and biofuels

Funding scheme: Large collaborative project with predominant R&D component

Expected impact: Maximise renewable energy output from pulp mills, optimising economics of total process

FP7 Theme 5 - Energy

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Biorefinery Task Force

Peter Axegard, STFI Markku Karlsson, UPM-Kymmene Paterson McKeough, VTT Annita Westenbroek, KCPK Michel Petit-Conil, Afocel/CTP Ludger Eltrop, IER University

Stuttgart Klaus Niemelä, KCL Marco Mensink, CEPI (chairman)

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How to promote FTP within FP7

How to work for Programs and Calls.

• Prepare FTP’s priorities based on its SRA

• In Brussels» Commission» Advisory Group members» EU Parliament

• Through countries (NSGs)» Program Committee members» Advisory Group members» Permanent representation in Brussels» Members of the EU Parliament

Encourage more from the sector to become evaluators.

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RA 1-6 Commercialisering soft forest values

Openings in 1st callForest-based sector specific:

KBBE-2007-1-2-06 Developing new methods for valuing and marketing of currently non-marketable forest goods and services

Cross-sectoral:

KBBE-2007-1-4-12 Policy and institutional aspects of sustainable agriculture/forestry and rural development in the Mediterranean countries

KBBE-2007-1-4-13 New sources of employment in rural areas

KBBE-2007-1-4-18 External costs of pesticides

KBBE-2007-3-1-09 Green Factory – the expression and accumulation of valuable industrial compounds in plants

(ENV.2007.1.1.6.3) Impacts and feedbacks of climate policies on land use and ecosystems in Europe

(ENV.2007.2.1.2.1) Assessing the ecological status of water bodies

ENV.2007.2.1.4.1 Contribution of bio-diversity to ecosystem services

ENV.2007.2.1.4.2 Use of natural resources: the impact on biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services

ENV.2007.2.1.4.3 Bio diversity values, sustainable use and livelihoods

Preliminary gap analysis (major topics to propose for next calls)Well covered content-wise, but one small project is far from sufficient.

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RA 4-2 Advancing knowledge on forest ecosystems

Openings in 1st call Forest-based sector specific:

ENV.2007.2.1.4.1 Contribution of biodiversity to ecosystem services

ENV.2007.2.1.4.2 Use of natural resources: the impact on biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services

Cross-sectoral:

(KBBE-2007-1-2-03) Development of more efficient risk analysis techniques for pests and pathogens of phytosanitary concern

(ENERGY.2007.3.7.1) Harmonisation of biomass resource assessment

ENV.2007.1.2.3.2 Geographical information systems in support for environment and health research

ENV.2007.2.1.2.1 Assessing the ecological status of water bodies

ENV.2007.2.1.4.3 Biodiversity values, sustainable use and livelihoods

ENV.2007.4.1.1.2 Contribution to a global biodiversity observation system

Preliminary gap analysis (major topics to propose for next calls)Questionable whether this RA is sufficiently covered

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Task of a National Support Group

Integration of stakeholders • Industries, forest owners, SMEs• Scientific community• National agencies

Prioritisation of research themes from a national perspective (National Research Agenda) and coordination with the European SRA.

Facilitate funding activities. Contact and networking on national level with other technology platforms

or similar initiatives (e.g. regional clusters). Support project development and consortia buildung Introduce, inform about and promote FTP and its SRA in your country,

e.g. contacts with politicians, high level authorities, public financiers etc. Promote FTP database.

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Sweden

Private/public funding (“BFP”) of joint research

during 5 years of total 500 MSEK.(Not forestry and bio-energy)

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FTP’s project database

Keep track of European FTP projects. Keep track of national FTP projects as an option. Web-based open tool both for input of projects and

queries. Possible to introduce a project in max. 15 minutes. Every project, which follows the FTP criteria, gets an

unique identification number. Possible to list and follow projects after country, value

chain, research area and key words. The software will have a minor one time cost.

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Cooperation with other Technology Platforms Knowledge-based bio-economy (KBBE)

• Food for life• Suschem• Biofuel• Plant for the future• Animal health• Animal breeding• FTP

Construction• European construction • Suschem• Steel• Photo voltaic• FTP

Manufuture Water

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Lead Markets of the Forest-Based Sector: The Challenge- Innovation Based on Research -

Next FTP Conference in Hannover, Germany, 15./16. May 2007

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Tnak you

Thank you for listening!

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