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Studies and Research in Sustainability - Study and Research Scholarships 2008, Application deadline is: 15.11.2007
With financial support provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers a special programme on "Studies and Research in Sustainability" that gives particularly qualified graduates, doctoral students and postdocs from selected countries as well as German doctoral students and postdocs the opportunity to study and research in Germany or abroad.
Core Topic Area: Biogenic Resources and Value Chains
Countries: Applications are open to graduates, doctoral students and postdocs from Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Mongolia, and to doctoral students and postdocs from Germany. More Information: http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/07443.en.html (see also attachments Offer_Biogen.pdf and Annex_Biogen.pdf)
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Wilhelm Vorher will succeed C. G. Beckeman as the new Project Director of the Forest Based Sector Technology Platform (FTP)
Dr. Vorher, Managing Director of THOSCA HOLZ, which was formed as a joint venture of Metsäliitto and SCA, is responsible for the wood procurement for the shareholders’ mills in Central Europe. He will add the management of FTP to his current activities.
For more information here
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WoodWisdom-Net Call for Proposals 2006-2011
The first call in the WoodWisdom-Net programme brought 70 high-class proposals in the areas of "Wood production and properties" and "New wood-based products, efficient processes and sustainable forestry". The First-Step Proposals were evaluated at the end of February 2007, and altogether 44 proposals were invited for the second step. The project coordinators have been asked to submit their full Second-Step Proposals by 30 April, 2007.
All call documents (including different forms and project evaluation and procedure guidelines) for the Second Step are published at the WoodWisdom-Net website:
http://www.woodwisdom.net/programmes/
(see also Offer_Biogen.pdf and Annex_Bioggen.pdf)
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WoodWisdom-Net programme invites international research proposals
The first call in the WoodWisdom-Net programme has opened. Altogether 15 funding organisations in seven European countries (Finland, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France and United Kingdom) launch a call for proposals focusing in two areas: "Wood production and properties" and "New wood-based products, efficient processes and sustainable forestry".
Proposals (first step) are welcome from the 1st of November 2006 to the 31st of January, 2007.
All call documents (including different forms and project evaluation and procedure guidelines) are published at the WoodWisdom-Net website: http://www.woodwisdom.net/programmes/
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SCHWEIGHOFER PRIZE - In search for sustainable innovations
In June 2007 the Schweighofer Prize, the European Innovation Award for Forestry, Wood Technology and Wood Products will be presented for the third time.
Call period is from November 1, 2006 to January 31, 2007 innovative persons and institutions are invited for submitting proposals and nominations.
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http://www.woodwisdom.net/news/see.html?id=298
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VTT has developed new methods for fire retardant wood High fire performance wood products for demanding applications
The fire performance of wood can be significantly improved with different chemical and physical methods without any disadvantages to the appearance of the wood or its usage qualities. VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, together with the forest industry has developed more efficient fire retarding methods for different wood products.
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Lisa Sennerby Forsse, the Secretary General of Formas, has been appointed Rector of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU by the Government
She takes up her appointment on 1 July, 2006 and leaves the research council Formas where she has been as a chief officer since its establishment in 2001.
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Innovative wood products bring new zing to forest cluster
Wood Material Science and Engineering Research Programme in final straight The Finnish-Swedish Wood Material Science and Engineering Research Programme has for three years built a new knowledge base for the forest cluster. The programme’s multidisciplinary basic research projects have studied the properties of wood and methods with which to influence these properties. The ongoing applied projects are developing innovative and eco-efficient wood products, materials and processes, for example to serve the needs of the construction, packaging, paper, medicine and food industries. The programme will be completed next year.
http://www.tekes.fi/eng/news/uutis_tiedot.asp?id=5065
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forest.fi is a joint channel for the whole Finnish forest sector. Finnish Forest Association is responsible for the maintaining of these pages. You can also subscribe the newsletter by e-mailing at forest@smy.fi.
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Wood manufactures (Building with wood) is one of the eighteen sectors which VINNOVA (The Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) has identified as future growth sectors.
Wood Manufactures has been studied in a comprehensive innovation system analysis "Wood Manufacture, The Innovations system that beats the System."
In the report wood manufacture is devided into three sub-systems: Build housing, repair-rebuilding-extensions, furniture and interiors. The report presents the current picture in the form of a SWOT analysis and a vision of the future state of the innovation system. Finally, the recommendations how the route towards the vision should be planned are given.
Staffan Brege, Hans-Eric Johansson & Börje Pihlqvist, WOOD MANUFACTURE. The Innovation System that beats the System. Vinnova Analysis VA 2005:01.
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WoodWisdom-Net has a role in the implementation of the European Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform.
Read more from the newest Woodwisdom-Net Newsletter
Wood Material Science Research and Engineering Programme Board Member Greta Fossum, Research Director, Swedish Forest Industries Federation will be given an honorary doctorate in University of Umeå on the October 29, 2005
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Finnish forest biotechnology researcher awarded the EURYI prize for young researchers
Professor Yrjö Helariutta
25 outstanding young researchers in Europe have been awarded the European Young Investigator Award. Among the awarded are also Finnish researcher Professor Yrjö Helariutta from the University of Turku. Researchers are to use the EURYI awards, worth 1 - 1.25 million euros each, to establish and develop their own research groups.
The EURYI Awards, awarded now for the second time, were developed by the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCS) and the European Science Foundation (ESF). The EURYI Awards scheme aims to provide the resources to pursue an independent research career and enhance internationally high-level research in Europe. National research funding organisations from 16 European countries participate in the funding of the EURYI awards. Finland is represented by the Academy of Finland.
Yrjö Helariutta is Professor in botany at the University of Turku and his research group is stationed at the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki. He is active in the field of plant biology and plant genomics and has e.g. been involved in the Finnish Forest Cluster Research Programme, WoodWisdom. Helariutta's group studies how genes affect tree growth and differentiation at the molecular level. The group has made several significant gene discoveries by using thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), showing that the information gained from genes in thale cress can be applied to tree research.
Helariutta's research findings offer significant opportunities in the long run to improve forest growth and tailor wood and fibre properties and thus promote the competitiveness of forestry sector and forest-based industry.
The EURYI award ceremony will be held in connection with the World Science Forum in Budapest on 10-12 November 2005.
European Science Foundation
News releases in English www.esf.org
Professor Yrjö Helariutta, University of Turku, tel. +358 9 191 59422 or +358 40 720 1968, yrjo.helariutta@utu.fi
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The Academy of Finland has announced its selections for the national centre of excellence programme in 2006-2011
There are in all 23 centres of excellence: seven of them are newcomers to the programme, 16 units have also been involved in the first, 2000-2005 programme but now have revised and updated research plans. A centre of excellence is at, or very close to, the international cutting edge in its particular field of research. All applicants were rated very highly by the international experts who were involved in reviewing and evaluating the units. "The investments made in Finnish research have certainly paid off because it now enjoys greater international exposure than before, is more multidisciplinary than before, and is nationally and internationally more networked than before," says Dr Anneli Pauli, Academy Vice President (Research).
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This programme is the third national centre of excellence programme in Finland
The aim of the national centre of excellence strategy is to support and facilitate the development of high-level, creative and efficient research and researcher training environments. A centre of excellence is a research and researcher training unit that comprises one or more high-level research teams working under a common management and sharing a common and clearly defined set of research objectives. A centre of excellence may consist of units or research teams and researchers based at a university or research institute or spread across several different organisations. It may also work together with a university or research institute in the private sector.
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Units selected to take part in the national centre of excellence programme 2006-2011
Some of the units selected are working in the area of wood material science and engineering like:
Finnish CoE in Plant Signal Research by Tapio Palva from Helsinki University and CoE in Process
Chemistry by Mikko Hupa from Åbo Academy University. For more information, please see, http://www.aka.fi/index.asp?id=6BE90AA2F89F43CBB4378FB3BBCCA778
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research, has published the results
of the forestry-wood chain research in the FP5 in its report "The Forestry Wood Chain: The Impact of EU research (1998 - 2004). The web link to the pdf-doc can be find at Æ http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/agriculture/pdf/forestry_wood_chain_eu_rtd_impact_1998-2004.pdf
The Nordic Innovation Centre initiates and finances activities that enchance innovation collaboration and develop and maintain a smoothly functionign market in the Nordic region
The Centre works primarily with small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the Nordic countries. Other important partners are those most closely involved with innovation and market surveillance, such as industrial organisations and interest groups, research institutions and public authorities.
The Nordic Innovation Centre is an institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers. Its secretariat is in Oslo:
For more information: www.nordicinnovation.net
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Finland and Sweden as EU's innovative leaders
The 2004 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) confirms Sweden and Finland as the EU's innovative leaders. Germany and Denmark are performing well above the EU average, with Denmark in particular moving ahead quickly. Other leading countries, such as the Netherlands, Ireland and France, are slowing down. Estonia and Slovenia are leading the ten new Member States
Read more: http://www.cordis.lu/innovation/en/home.html
The Project is Building a Transnational Wood Material Science Programme in Europe WoodWisdom-Net, "Networking and integration of national programmes in the area of wood material science and engineering" (2004-2007) is a project within the ERA-NET Scheme of the EU 6th Framework Programme. The final goal of the WoodWisdom-Net project is to prepare and implement a co-funded joint call in the field of wood material science in the year 2007.
The project has 12 partners from five countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany. http://www.woodwisdom.net/
Opening Seminar, April 6, 2004 in Helsinki
Annual Seminar 2005, April 13 in Stockholm
Annual Seminar 2006, April 5, in Helsinki
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