Participants
To carry out this initiative, a multidisciplinary operational group with a supra-regional scope (Galicia, Castilla y León, the Basque Country, and Madrid) has been created, comprising a total of 10 participants, including applicant members and collaborating members.
Applicant Members
The Galician Forestry Association is a non-profit organization founded in Santiago de Compostela in 1986. It brings together private forest landowners and communal forest communities. Its goals include supporting and promoting forestry research, proposing research lines and projects that address the needs of Galician forest managers, and promoting initiatives that increase the added value of the goods, products, and resources generated in Galician forests.
FAFCYLE has represented and defended the interests of forest managers and forest owners’ associations in Castilla y León since 1990. With over 6,000 members and 500,000 hectares of forest under its scope, FAFCYLE fosters collaboration with other entities as a way to promote innovative solutions for the forestry sector and address the challenges posed by climate change, such as enhancing the resilience of forest stands to secure their future.
Founded in 1986, the Confederation of Forest Owners of the Basque Country brings together forest owner associations in the region. It represents half of the private forest area in the Basque Country and works to improve the forestry sector. Its main goal is to test the performance of forest materials under adverse conditions and improve future management and plantations.
TRAGSA is a public company that supports the delivery of essential rural development, environmental conservation, and emergency services. It will participate in the project through its forest nursery in Maceda (Ourense) and its innovation unit in Madrid, providing expertise in genetic improvement, conservation of forest genetic resources, and traceability along the forestry supply chain.
FEUGA is an innovation agent and knowledge transfer office bridging the research sector and business in various industries, such as agri-food and forestry. It supports and manages projects and leads communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities. It is involved in several initiatives, including H2020 (SoildiverAgro, ROADMAP), Interreg (Biomasa-AP, Conserval, VINIoT), and operational groups at both regional (BIO_MARTERRA, MULTI-Forest, PURINPRECISO, SUEROVAL) and supra-regional levels (Ash4Soil, CLIMALACT, OLIVEBIOME, OLIVITECH, PLANFORLAB, PRERIVID, SIMBAV, UBAVIDA).
COSE is a national, independent, non-profit entity founded in 1987 to bring together private forest landowners (who manage 67% of Spain’s forest area) through regional forest associations. It acts as a representative body before public authorities and serves as a valid interlocutor to channel initiatives and influence forest-related policy and legislation at national and EU levels. Its main commitment is to promote sustainable forest management to prevent forest land abandonment, by developing projects that enhance forest value and ensure profitability for the provision of goods and services now and in the future.
Subcontracted members
The Lourizán Forestry Research Centre, under the Xunta de Galicia, works on the genetic improvement of forest species and the transfer of knowledge to the forestry sector. Its expertise in genotype selection and resource conservation is key to the project.
NEIKER is a technology center conducting applied research in the agricultural and forestry sectors, evaluating forest health and the impacts of climate change. Its Forest Health group plays a key role in the project by providing expertise on forest diseases.
The General Foundation of the University of Valladolid manages university infrastructure and promotes links between the university and society. Its Forest Pathology research group contributes to the project with expertise in tree pathogens and forest diseases.
The Institute of Forest Sciences of INIA-CSIC provides scientific and technical information for forest systems management. It has collaborated on research regarding reproductive and base materials, and in managing testing networks.