Wood­Wis­dom-Net+ Call for Pre-Pro­pos­als 2013 opened

The indic­at­ive total avail­able budget of the Wood­Wis­dom-Net Joint Call 2013 amounts to 24.000.000,00 € (nation­al pub­lic fund­ing includ­ing EC top-up fund­ing of 8 M€). The total call volume with indus­tri­al co-fund­ing is estim­ated to be up to ca. 30 M€. The call for pre-pro­pos­als ends on 30^th April, 2013. The main approach in WW-Net+ is the sub­sti­tu­tion of non-renew­able resources (e.g. mater­i­als or fossil fuels), by renew­able forest-based solu­tions to reduce car­bon emis­sions and waste. The joint transna­tion­al call will address the whole forest-based value chain in four areas. These are: 

1. the sus­tain­able man­age­ment of forest resources through
2. their effi­cient util­isa­tion in indus­tri­al pro­cesses to
3. value added products and
4. com­pet­it­ive cus­tom­er solutions.

The exact scope of the call is cur­rently being designed via stake­hold­er con­sulta­tion and expert work­shops across Europe. The fun­ders are par­tic­u­larly keen to encour­age innov­at­ive transna­tion­al pro­pos­als from mul­tidiscip­lin­ary groups of research­ers with optim­al com­bin­a­tions of expert­ise to address the call top­ic areas. The par­ti­cip­a­tion of com­mer­cial and indus­tri­al part­ners – espe­cially small and medi­um-sized enter­prises (SMEs) – is strongly recom­men­ded to ensure the rel­ev­ance of the research to tech­no­lo­gic­al devel­op­ment and to the needs of soci­ety. The call was offi­cially launched in con­nec­tion with the Wood­Wis­dom-Net sem­in­ar in Munich, Ger­many on 20 – 21 Feb­ru­ary, 2013. The second day of the sem­in­ar was a broker­age event for the 4^th Joint Call includ­ing flash present­a­tions either for com­pet­ence or pro­ject ideas. For the flash present­a­tions, please see the sem­in­ar web­site at http://​www​.wood​wis​dom​.net/. For the call doc­u­ments, please see at the right side or at Wood­Wis­dom-Net+. The Wood­Wis­dom-Net+ con­sor­ti­um has estab­lished a Call Sec­ret­ari­at on behalf of all of the fund­ing part­ners. Gen­er­al enquir­ies about this call should be addressed to: Wood­Wis­dom-Net+ Call Sec­ret­ari­at
Agency for Renew­able Resources (FNR)/
Fed­er­al Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Forestry, Envir­on­ment and Water Man­age­ment (BML­FUW)
call(at)woodwisdom.net Source: CORD­IS Wire