Symposium and networking meeting concerning the project “Second generation of European hardwoods plantation optimized for market uptake”
Symposium and networking meeting concerning the project “Second generation of European hardwoods plantation optimized for market uptake”
The event co-organized and hosted by the Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Center in Paris on September 16th, 2019 aims at bringing together companies and scientists to present and discuss the results of the WOODnat project and new potential cooperation in the field of wood science.
The WOODnat project scope is based on European Walnut plantations with a double objective:
– Remain competitive marketwise, especially against American walnut
– Stay profitable despite the longer period of growth against short term plantation.
These two challenges are reflecting nowadays dilemma regarding productive landscape and the need to find solutions to avoid landscape conversion from traditional plantations to short-term plantation.
Therefore, WOODnat project has explored different technologies among the value chain. Starting from improving plants to meliorate growth and resistance; to innovative intermediary products, which can add value at an early stage of the plantation.
WOODnat team explored also plantation management experimental models and online applications to enable full transparency to the customer.
In short: keeping a traditional species as the European walnut with the knowledge of modern technics and technologies.
A detailed program of the symposium and networking meeting can be found below.
