Inaugural conference of the national research programme Forest4LV at the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry

On 8 November, the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry hosted the opening conference of the project No VPP-ZM-VRIIILA-2024/2-0002 "Innovation in Forest Management and Value Chain for Latvia's Growth: New Forest Services, Products and Technologies Forest4LV". The conference was attended by representatives of the project partners - Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava" and Latvian University of Life Sciences and Technology - as well as participants from the Latvian Science Council, Ministry of Agriculture and Investment and Development Agency of Latvia.

The aim of the inaugural conference was to foster cooperation and new contacts between scientific and public institutions. Participants were introduced to the framework and expected content of the scientific contributions of the programme, the administrative conditions, the research directions included in the project and the interactions between several research fields. Results of the FARP project No lzp-2021/1-0599 "Investigation of eco-friendly thermal insulation materials from sustainable and renewable industrial crops residuals" was also presented during the event.

To promote networking, the participants of the inaugural conference were invited to take a tour of the laboratories of the LSIWC and to discuss in an informal atmosphere issues directly or indirectly related to the project.