Participants: Representatives from funding organisations
Schedule:
28 March 2006
The workshop is organized on 28 March 2006 at Vantaa Finland.
Results from the workshops for researchers and industrial leaders (Task 6) are now compiled and sent to the workshop participants. For each country, the result were compiled separately, and from the compiled document, you can see evaluation results from all workshop participants and participants from your country. These specific documents will support the discussion at the workshop.
At the workshop, we collect your estimations on what sub-areas and how much your organisation would tentatively be willing to fund in WoodWisdom-Net. For each sub-area, you are kindly requested to estimate:
i)
How much your organisation would tentatively be willing to
fund research project related to the sub-area (applied/basic research)?
ii)
Within what years
your organisation would be able to distribute these funds?
Furthermore, you are requested to identify what specific research issues seem to be of greatest interest to your organisation.
Click here to download questionnaire for the workshop.
Below, you can download the documents containing solicited research issues
Below, you can also download results from tasks 2, 4 and 5. Note that due to the tight schedule of the workshop, there is no time to concentrate on the results from all the tasks. Thus, the documents below are just background material and they will not be at the agenda of the workshop.
RESEARCH AREA 1 Knowledge-based products – new value- added e.g. for construction, interior design, information, packaging and health-care purposes
RESEARCH AREA 2 Biorefinery concept for efficient utilization of wood raw material
RESEARCH AREA 3 Sustainable, renewable raw material production
RESEARCH AREA 4 Socio-economic aspects related to scientific innovations of wood-based materials