SIRA
Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA)
Trees4Future is the first and largest integrated infrastructure innovation and research project to build bridges between the numerous research groups around forests in Europe: these bridges are built between eco-physiologists, geneticists, wood quality and technology labs, and climate change, and forest management modelling groups.
As a result of Trees4Future, we expect e.g. to be able to design a wood product to have optimal characteristics, starting from gene level. The envisaged cooperation between researchers and end-users of research will shorten the path of turning ideas into innovative products and services that will create growth and jobs in Europe. Integrating Activities also aim to structure better and incorporate, on a European scale, the way research infrastructures operate and foster their joint development in terms of capacity and performance.
Trees4Future establishes a long-lasting integrated research infrastructure, enabling access and utilisation of the project results also beyond the project duration, thus contributing to the Europe 2020 strategy and the European Research Area - ERA. Thematic European networks are created in the project, and a roadmap to durable integration is designed now in the latter half of the project. Trees4future engages in dialogue with key identified forest sector stakeholder groups in order to develop and communicate a strategic research agenda focusing on challenges such as improved and sustainable production methods, optimal use of forest resources to various industrial and societal needs and mitigation of climate change. This dialogue involves existing and well recognized platforms and networks such as FTP (Forest-based sector technology platform), IUFRO, CEPI, CEI-Bois, EOS, EPF, IW, EFI and other European, national and regional stakeholders identified.
An important result of broad-based interaction with stakeholders is a Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA), which can be downloaded here.
The SIRA is based on two main inputs: firstly, on a survey that was widely disseminated amongst the research community and secondly on interviews with stakeholders, which included a short section specifically incorporated to collect stakeholder inputs for the SIRA.
The strategic innovation and research agenda (SIRA) identifies key themes, key possibilities to cooperate and potential funding sources (European, transnational, national and regional funding) to which the implementation of this the agenda would be of high relevance.
Key guidance in the strategic innovation and research agenda development process was sought from:
- key objectives of Trees4Future, tree breeding, forestry research
- expectations of practitioners and stakeholders
- consideration of what research efforts should be enhanced
Acknowledgements
A research agenda can only be convincing when it is based on a broad range of expert inputs. Our undivided gratitude goes to the 480 experts who contributed to an online survey. It took us some time to go through all the input on our four open questions, but we considered it well worth the effort and we are happy to present a broad-shared result. A full list of contributors can be found here below:
Daniel Abel-Schaad, Kristina Ahnlund Ulvcrona, Anssi Ahtikoski, Axel Albrecht, Josu Alday, Mahamane Ali, Maria Helena Almeida, Clemens Altaner, Juan Gabriel Álvarez, Enrique Andivia, Per Angelstam, Ofélia Anjos, Mark Appiah, Jose Aranha, José Ramón Arévalo Sierra, Manuel Arias-Rodil, Tuija Aronen, Maria Asins, Atilla Atik, Concepcion Avila, Georg Avramidis, Petter Axelsson, Nadir Ayrilmis, Joao Azevedo, Roberto Bacilieri, Eric Badel, Maria Luisa Badenes, Miklós Bálint, Dalibor Ballian, Vanesa Baño, Sheel Bansal, Anders Barfod, Giovanna Battipaglia, Simon Bell, Paul Bellamy, Piero Belletti, Olgirda Belova, Olgirda Belova, Frederic Berger, Johan Bergh, Isabelle Bergkvist, Dan Bergström, Frank Berninger, Franco Biondi, Vladimirs Biziks, Christer Björkman, Robert Blasko, Michal Bogdziewicz, Kurt Bollmann, Andreas Bolte, Marco Borghetti, Isabella Børja, Alessandra Bottero, Laura Bouriaud, Gilberto Bragato, Manuela Branco, Peter Brang, Lorenz Breinig, Oliver Brendel, Patricia Brito Sánchez, Ben Bubner, Tom Buckley, , alcolm Burgess, Philip Burton, Filippo Bussotti, Jose Manuel Cabrero Ballarín, Maria Calviño-Cancela, Angela Calvo, J Julio Camarero, Isabel Campos, Rafael Cañas, Zeki Candan, Isabel Cañellas, Francisco M Cánovas, Christopher CARCAILLET, Rocco Carella, Paloma Cariñanos, John Carlson, Luisa Carvalho, Marc Castellnou, Matjaz Cater, Filipe Catry, Huseyin Cebeci, Jan Cermak, Karel Cerny, Gilles Chaix, Boulos Chalhoub, Marie Charru, Manash Chatterjee, Paolo Cherubini, Francesco Chianucci, Christine Chirat, Brendan Choat, Jesper Christiansen, Christian Cirad, Alexandru Liviu Ciuvat, Jo Clark, Veronica Codesido, Silvia Coimbra, Nathalie Cools, Piermaria Corona, Elena Corredoira Castro, Levente Csoka, Branislav Cvjetkovic, Hendrik Davi, Vera De Cauwer, Francois de Coligny, Raul de la Mata, Veronica De Micco, Gaby Deckmyn, Antonio del Campo, Miren del Río, Christine DELEUZE, Samet Demirel, Dominique Derome, Giovanni Di Matteo, Giovanni Di Matteo, Jurij Diaci, Julio Javier Diez Casero, Jana Dlouha, Christoph Dobes, E, rique Doblas-Miranda, Petr Dolezal, Janis Donis, Allan Downie, Erwin Dreyer, Lars Drössler, Heidi Dungey, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Rob Elias, Stephen Elliott, Rasmus Enderle, Louise Eriksson, Dieter Ernst, Back Tomas Ersson, LAZREG Fatiha, Geraldo Fernandes, Irene Fernandez, Josefa Fernández López, Juan Fernandez-Golfin, Marco Ferretti, Leena Finér, Silvia Fineschi, Nicholas Fisichelli, Matthias Fladung, Ecaterina Fodor, Teresa Fonseca, Patrick Fonti, Mathieu Fortin, Oskar Franklin, Josef Frydl, Hrvoje Fulgosi, Oliver Gailing, Daniel Garcia, Mariano Garcia, Francisco García FErnández, Rosario Garcia Gil, Sergi Garcia-Barreda, Ignacio García-González, Antje Gellerich, Rene Geurts, Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín, Charles Goebel, Jorge Gominho, jose ramon gonzalez, Maya Gonzalez, Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez, Javier Gorgoso-Varela, Célia Gouveia, Lars Graudal, Anders Grönlund, Natalie Gulsrud, Thilanka Gunaratne, Per Gundersen, Lena Gustafsson, Jill Hamilton, Arndt Hampe, Mats Hannerz, Riitta Hänninen, Jan Hanus, Henrik Hartmann, William hawthorne, Stephan Helfer, Karl Bader Henga-Botsika Bobe, Jon Heuch, Arnd G. Heyer, Milena Holmgren, Marjanke Hoogstra-Klein, Miha Humar, Brian Huntley, Nathalie Isabel, Eugenia Iturritxa, Milos Ivkovic, Andrzej Jagodzinski, Anne Jakalaniemi, Ken James, Steven Jansen, Kathryn Jeffery, Ratnasingam Jegatheswaran, María_Dolores Jimenez, Therese Johansson, Alistair Jump, Felix Kalaba, Jose Kallarackal, Ville Kankaanhuhta, Katri Kärkkäinen, Joshua Kayode, Tamar Keasar, Marta Kempf, Tijs Ketelaar, Graham King, Keith Kirby, Sofia Knapic, pieter kofman, Michael Köhl, Ulrich Kohnle, Chris Kollas, Cecil Konijnendijk, Johannes Konnerth, Branislav Kovačević, Miroslav Kovalcik, Frans Krens, Juergen Kreyling, Sarada Krishnan, Martin Kühmaier, Norbert Kunert, Thomas Kuyper, Nathalie Labonnote, Bruno Lasserre, Jelena Lazarević, Shing Yip Lee, François Lefèvre, Dörte Lehsten, Aleksi Lehtonen, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Xinguo Li, ROlf Lidskog, Johannes Liesche, Jaan Liira, Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Boon Leong Lim, Juul Limpens, Eva Lindberg, Anja Linstädter, Stefan Löfgren, Asko Lõhmus, María Lombardero, Carlos Loureiro, Milan Lstiburek, Lars Lundqvist, Ivo Machar, Zbigniew Maciejewski, John MacKay, Jan Macku, Steen Magnussen, Doug Maguire, Annikki Mäkelä, Pille Mänd, Jose Antonio Manzanera, Concepción Maroto, John Marshall, Jorge Martin, Celia Martínez Alonso, Bill Mason, Marcello Mastrorilli, Robert Matison, Walter Mattioli, Jim Mattsson, Radim Matula, Csaba Matyas, Stephane Maury, Stefn Mayr, Paul McCabe, James McCarthy, Armando McDonald, Steve McKeand, Paul McLean, Dean Meason, Eduardo Mendonca, María Menéndez Miguélez, paolo menesatti, Per Milberg, Goran Milić, Holger Militz, Izildinha Miranda, Tamás Misik, Ralph Mitloehner, abdullah mohd zaki, Paloma Moncalean, Lucio Montecchio, Greg Moore, Cristian Moreno, Cristina Moreno-Gutierrez, Christopher Morhart, Jurga Motiejunaite, Daniel Moya, Michael Müller, Andrea Nardini, Francisco B Navarro, Totte Niittylä, Eero Nikinmaa, Ove Nilsson, Michela Nocetti, mats nordberg, Tomas Nordfjell, Jiri Novak, Radek Novotný, Leif Nutto, Pekka Nygren, Richard O Hanlon, Péter Ódor, Remko Offringa, Samuel Olajuyigbe, José Miguel Olano Mendoza, Nicolai Olenici, Nicolai Olenici, Juan A. Oliet, Vanda Oliveira, Jose-Vicente Oliver-Villanueva, Conor O'Reilly, Anita Osvalde, Primož Oven, Yoan Paillet, Momchil Panayotov, Anastasia Pantera, Dan Parfitt, Pierluigi Paris, Charles PARKOUDA, Maria Patrício, Joana Paulo, Raphaël Pélissier, Mikko Peltoniemi , Helena Pereira, Mike Perks, Alexander Petutschnigg, Alexander Pfriem, christian Piedallu, Andrea Pisanelli, Antonio Pizzi, chattanong podong, Vilém Podrázský, Marcin Polak, Antje Potthast, Kambiz Pourtahmasi, Noémie Pousse, Robert Prinz, Pertti Pulkkinen, Anders Ræbild, Wickneswari Ratnsm, Pasi Rautio, Hans Peter Ravn, Lara Redolfi De Zan, Stefan Rensing, Martin Riegler, Juris Rieksts-Riekstins, Janis Rizhikovs, Mirco Rodeghiero, Jesus Rodriguez-Calcerrada, Jonas Rönnberg, Aleksandra Rosa-Gruszecka, Luís Miguel Rosalino, Thomas Rosenau, Sabine Rosner, , Philippe Rozenberg, Rafael Rubio de Casas, Nadine Ruehr, Petras Rupšys, francesco maria sabatini, Uttam Sahoo, Mohamed Salem, Tanja Sanders, Kewat Sanjay kumar, Giovanni Santopuoli, Luis Santos del Blanco, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Robert Savé M., Andrea Scartazza, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Thomas Schnabel, Ingo Schöning, Martin Schroeder, Silvio Schueler, Bernhard Schuldt, Detlef Schulze, Mirko Schuster, Mónica Sebastiana, Vladimír Šebeň, Rupert Seidl, Walter Seidling, Arne Sellin, Manzoor Shah, Ian Short, Narasinha Shurpali, Wojciech Skierucha, Wojciech Skierucha, Carsten Skjoth, JERZY SMARDZEWSKI, M J M Smulders, Ahmad Solgi, Ivan Sopushynskyy, Janet Sprent, Gavriil Spyroglou, Martin Sramek, Milena Stankovic, Lidia Sukovata, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ayco Tack, Mika Tarkka, Crtomir Tavzes, Fantina Tedim, Teemu Teeri, Rita Teixeira, Zewge Teklehaimanot, Noemi Tel Zur, V.P. Tewari, Mark Tibbett, E. Jorge Tizado, Luigi Todaro, Gianluca Tondi, Mariano Toribio, Patrizia Trifilò, Branislav Trudic, Mirela Tulik, Francesca Ugolini, Mohammad Rahmat Ullah, Josef Urban, Carlo Urbinati, Giorgio Vacchiano, Harald Vacik, Gregory Valatin, RUBEN VALBUENA, Alejandro Valdecantos, Ahmad Valipour, Jan Van den Bulcke, Wim van der Putten, Eibertus Nicolaas Van Loo, Kris Vandekerkhove, Claudio Varotto, VINAY VARSHNEY, Martti Venäläinen, Luciano Verdade, Stavros Veresoglou, Erkki Verkasalo, Mart Vlam, Bart Vleeschouwers, Thomas Volkmer, Susanne von Bargen, Aleksandra Walczyńska, kristina wallertz, Danielle Way, Wolfgang Weisser, Christoph Wenderdel, Kerstin Westin, Martin Wiesmeier, Wolfgang Wilcke, Anna Wilczek, Wim Willems, Stefan Willför, Lars Wilhelmsson, Rob Wilson, Scott Wilson, Beata Woziwoda, Sören Wulff, José Xavier, Bo-Han XU, Rasoul Yousefpour, Jun Yu, Marcin Zadworny, Roberto Zanuttini, Florian Zeller, Wei Sheng Zeng, Xiaojian Zhou, Sabine Dagmar Zimmermann, Christophe Roland Zinga Koumba, Cordt Zollfrank, Wolfgang zu Castell
Following experts are warmly thanked for their active contributions in an expert workshop held at FCBA premises: Lorenz Breinig, Alexandru Liviu Civuat, Maya Gonzalez, Henrik Hartmann, Andreja Kutnar, Francesco Maria Sabatini.
We warmly thank Antonella Zona (DG-AGRI), Ulrich Schurr (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Anna Maria Johansson (DG-RTD), Doru-Leonard Irimie (DG RTD), Lise Caron (NRCan/RNCan), Michele Bozzano (EUFORGEN) for their insightful and inspiring contributions to the SIRA launch event in Brussels, April 2016.
The authors express gratitude to the valuable inputs to SIRA process, development and review by Trees4Future ExCom members, particularly Luc Pâques, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Yohan Lecuona, Mariella Marzano and Gus Verhaeghe.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration.
Finally, a big thanks again to all contributors and please don't forget to use the agenda when you advocate for research activities!
