The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organisation established by European States. The purpose of the Institute is to undertake research on the pan-European level on forest policy, including its environmental aspects, on the ecology, multiple use, resources and health of European forests and on the supply of and demand for timber and other forest products and services in order to promote the conservation and sustainable management of forests in Europe. EFI excels in carrying out projects on relevant forest issues at the European level, and has a track record of over 30 projects carried out for the European Commission DGs during the past few years. EFI has currently app. 130 member organisations (both research organisations and end-users of research) in Europe and beyond. EFI employs app. 45 person years of researchers and support staff at headquarters and 5 Regional Offices.
One of the those Regional Office, Central-East European Regional Office – EFICEEC, will be in charge of the work in ARANGE. EFICEEC comprises three thematic Work Areas: forest sector policy and economics; land use change in the context of climate change and bio-energy; and forest ecosystem management. It is devoted to collaborative research, capacity building, information and policy advice covering a region extending from the Baltic Countries down to South Eastern Europe. In ARANGE, EFI is leader of WP6, and Task Leader of T3.2.
Web site: www.efi.int
Persons involved:
Bernhard Wolfslehner
Dr, is EFICEEC Head of Office, EFICEEC work area leader for forest ecosystem management and has more than 10 years of research experience in sustainable forest management, indicator development, and multi-criteria analysis. He was key researcher in the development group of the Multi-criteria analysis tool in EFORWOOD and participated in several projects on sustainability issues and forest goods and services. Currently, he is work package leader in the FP7-ENV project VOLANTE.
Gerhard Weiss
Dr, has more than 15 years of experience in national, EU and international forest policy analysis, sustainable development, rural development and land-use policy, and innovation research. He has been chair of COST Action E51 “Integrating Innovation and Development Policies for the Forest Sector” and is leading the EFICEEC work area on forest policy and economics.
Patrick Huber
studied material and energetic utilization of renewable resources and resources management. He is currently working as a researcher and focusing on alternative forestry-wood-chains, non-timber forest products and ecosystem services.
