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Promoting and linking Wood Industry and Research in Romanian Regions using good practice from acknowledged wood clusters in the EU (PRO-WOOD)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

PRO-WOOD is a project designed to support an emerging wood cluster in the County of Brasov-Covasna in Romania. The wood sector has a long tradition in business and R&D, and an economic potential that needs to be developed. A very successful tool to trigger such economic and knowledge-based environments are cluster initiatives (CIs). However CIs do not have a long tradition in Eastern European, so ...
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Centre of Excellence of Forest-based Industry (LignoSilva)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

The general objectives of the project is to create the Centre of excellence (LignoSilva) in the field of a forestry, wood-processing and a pulp-paper complex involving two major organizations, the National Forest Centre in Zvolen and Pulp and Paper Research Institute in Bratislava in cooperation with the European Forest Institute as a leading research organisations from high performance countries ...
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Progress through collaboration - Advancing education and training in timber construction

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

... Holzbau Schweiz, Technopark holding bv – Technopark (Netherlands), Copenhagen Technical college – KTS, NBvT- Nederlandse Branchevereniging voor de Timmerindustrie (Netherlands), Polish wood cluster (Cluster Czarna Woda), Finnish wood academy and the Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft Rottenburg will strengthen and the support the project team.Recent technical innovation concerning fire resistance and ...
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Material Match Making Platform for promoting the use of industrial waste in local networks (LIFE M3P)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

... Although the management of waste continues to improve in the EU, the European economy currently still loses a significant amount of potential secondary raw materials, such as metals, wood, glass, paper and plastics. In 2010, total waste production in the EU amounted to 2.5 billion tonnes. From this total only a limited share (36%) was recycled, with the rest landfilled or burned, ...
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Developing Businesses Related to Wood Sourcing and Refi ning – North Ostrobothnia – Kainuu – Karelia

Start date: Nov 30, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2003,

The Finnish forest cluster, which was built based on the refi ning of wood, may decline if it continues on the same basis as before. Th e goal of the project was to develop a strong sourcing and refi ning cooperation network in the North Ostrobothnia – Karelia region in order to support export to third countries. Th e new cooperation network was to be used to increase the value added from the wood ...
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Clustering knowledge, Innovation and Design in the SEE WOOD sector (ID:WOOD)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

With its surplus of forests resources the wood sector in the SEE area presents significant potentials still to be exploited. In most of SE Europe countries, wood sector is rather fragmented, lacking an organic policy approach that would create the basic conditions for its development. The area involved in the project is characterized by a clear dual spatial pattern, where some of the regions invol ...
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Value Added Wood - fostering a dynamic competence area (VAW)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The operation VAW- Value Added Wood - Fostering a Dynamic Competence Area joins eight European wood clusters in developing new ideas and policies to stimulate the sector. Participating clusters have specific competences and strategies but also face a range of common challenges, including low export rates and a high pressure on prices, limited innovation management skills and a low value added in p ...
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ECOMOVEL (ecomovel)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

The furniture industry is undergoing restructuring. The importance of cooperation throughout the manufacturing cycle is essential, to act on costs and increase added value. Our goal is to work in eco-designed products development in the furniture industry, in high added value products and in development of new technologies in eco-design, taking into account two essential aspects: Design and Ecolo ...
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Transfer of innovative practices in the Vocational Education & Training to Slovenian Wood Sector. Acronym: KnowFOwood2

The main aim is to transfer innovative VET solutions from Europe to Slovenian Wood Sector to set up advanced VET System and new validated and state recognized VET Program.
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