RESONATE aims to generate the required knowledge and practices for making European forests, the services they provide and related economic activities more resilient to future climate change and disturbances.
The changing climate highlights multiple challenges to the resilience of forest value chains within the EU. Forest ecosystem resilience, wood availability as well as techno-systems (for wood-based production) are facing many short and long-term risks. The RESONATE project, focussed on four main identified resilience challenges within forest value chains: biodiversity decline, changes in societal demand, increased risks of forest disturbances and changing tree species suitability.
Stakeholder engagement and objectives
RESONATE adopted complementary research approaches to investigate how to enhance forest resilience in forests across Europe and their associated forest value chains. The aim is to increase awareness amongst decision makers and the public, to make sure that the project finds answers to their real-life problems. Therefore, we involved many stakeholders to share their experiences and knowledge throughout the entire project duration: i) Research & education, ii) Forest owners & practitioners, iii) Forest industry, iv) Policy makers, v) Society & media.
The project objectives included:
- Provide a reference guide of forest system resilience indicators
- Develop a resilience dashboard
- Inform forest stakeholders about hotspots of disturbance
- Identify drivers of forest-based value chain resilience
- Inform policy makers
- Raise awareness
- Develop resilience modules for university courses
Key facts and results
April 2021 - March 2025 (48 months), EU funding 5 million EUR
20 partners, 12 countries, 9 case studes
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Consortium
European Forest Institute (EFI); Universida de Vigo; Axencia Galega da Industria Forestal (XERA), Papierholz Austria GmbH; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU); Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Prospex Institute; University of Helsinki; University of Graz; University of Copenhagen; Wageningen Environmental Research; Technical University of Munich (TUM); National Resource Institute Finland (LUKE); Bournemouth University; Croatian Forest Research Institute; Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF); French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE); Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc); InnovaWood network.
Coordinator contact
Marcus Lindner & Gesche Schifferdecker
European Forest Institute (EFI), Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany
info@resonateforest.org
Funding
The RESONATE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement 101000574.