Forest4LV

Project summary

Forest4LV aims to enhance innovative forest management and new forest services, products and technologies in Latvia. Knowledge gaps regarding multipurpose management will be covered by standardized, complex, experimental assessment of survival, growth, quality, biodiversity and adaptation of forest. It will ensure integrity and coherence of the tasks and findings with pioneering European research in climate-smart forestry, and provide input for scenario modelling system. Interdisciplinary, holistic, stakeholder-input-based, agile socio-economic assessment of forest management scenarios (including climate change mitigation / substitution) will be the basis of the recommendations for policy and elaborated sustainability practices of forest sector actors. It will include solutions for rational use of forest resources in mechanical processing and biorefinery, advancing low-carbon economy. Innovative solutions for wood construction and use of wood materials will be explored, the valorisation of forest industry side streams will be addressed, and new biological, chemical and polymer material production technologies will be developed, thereby contributing to achievement of climate goals and economic growth. Young and upcoming researchers will be elucidated in methods and findings of holistic assessment of the effects arising in value chain from forest to end-products.

Project leader: Uģis Cābulis

Leader of LSIWC section: Jānis Rižikovs

Total financing of the project:  1 800 000 EUR

Project partners

• Coordinator - Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry
• Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
• Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”