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FP7 - Regions of Knowledge project

"Sustainable forestry providing renewable

energy, bio-based products and sustainable

construction (RoK-FOR)"

Dr Dijana Vuletić, regional coordinator

Dr Hrvoje Marjanović

Dr Elvis Paladinić

Silvija Krajter

Igor Kolar

Hrvatski šumarski institut Croatian Forest Research

Institute

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Hrvatski šumarski institut Croatian Forest Research Institute

ABOUT ROK- FOR

RoK-FOR is a coordination project within the FP7 Capacities/

Regions of Knowledge that connects forestry and environment

sectors of five regions in Europe

Call identifier: FP7-REGIONS-2009-1

Started: February 2010

Duration: Three years

Budget: 1.7 M EUR

Consortium: 20 partners from 6 countries

Coordinator: Dr Timo J. Hokkanen,

Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the

Environment for North Karelia

Joensuu, Finland

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GENERAL OVERVIEW

The project aims at creating new partnerships for actors of the

regions by linking the economy and know-how of the regions, in

the chain of production, based on environment and natural resources

A common European action program for sustainable forest

management and related development activities is being compiled for

the five partner regions

Research, production and development projects within the sectors of

bio-energy, bio-based products and wood-based construction will

be initiated. One of the essential objectives of the project is to

organize financing for new projects

The election of the sectors is based on the Lead Market Initiative

(EU, 2008)

EU recognized six Lead markets: Sustainable construction, bio-

based products, renewable energy, re-cycling, protective textiles, e-

health

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PROJECT PARTNERS

RoK-FOR consortium: composed of 20 partners from six countries

in five regions of Europe

North Karelia in Finland,

Catalonia in Spain

Baden Württenberg in Germany

Aquitaine – Basque in France - Spain

Cross-border region of Croatia (Slavonija & Baranja) – Serbia

(Vojvodina)

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RoK-FOR regions

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Regional Cross-Border RoK-FOR Cluster Croatia - Serbia

Hrvatski šumarski institut Regional Coordinator

Croatian Forest Research Institute Partner 7 - Croatia Jastrebarsko, Cvjetno naselje 41

Šumska biomasa d.o.o. Partner 20 - Croatia Forest Biomass Ltd.

Zagreb, Vukotinovićeva 2

Grad Vinkovci Partner 19 - Croatia City of Vinkovci

Vinkovci, Bana J. Jelačića 1

Institut za nizijsko šumarstvo i

životnu sredinu Partner 21 - Serbia Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment

Novi Sad, Antona Čehova 13

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RoK-FOR regional focus (Croatia, Serbia)

Bio-energy from wood and forest wood remains (Priority 1)

Sustainable construction – “building with wood” (Priority 2)

Knowledge transfer – Mentoring workshops coordinated by

Joensuu Science Park (Finland) for the partners in the cross-

border region.


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RoK-FOR project implementation

First phase (18 months): Preparation of JAP

Information (SWOT, research capacities, enterprises, policies,

programmes) from the regions collected and analyzed,

stakeholder panels to collect core info for making RRAs, new

linkages formed and the joint action plan JAP with Business plan

prepared (Solsona, June 2011) and elaborated (Zagreb, Oct 2011)

Second phase (18+ months): Starting implementation of JAP

New activities started with help of the new contacts and research.

Consortium will help in finding funding for the activities both on

regional and on European scale. Joint projects can start before the

"official" implementation of JAP starts.


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RoK-FOR Joint Action Plan coordianted by P.Pelli (EFI)

Vision:

Sustainable Forest Management provides solutions for the needs

of renewable energy, sustainable construction and bio-based

products.

Mission:

The RoK-FOR project unlocks regional potential in the Lead

Market areas relevant to forest-based materials


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RoK-FOR Joint Action Plan (JAP)

Common challenges:

How to find motivation for sustainable forest management?

How to respond to challenges brought by climate change?

How to develop forest-based bioenergy sector?

How to support research and innovation clusters?


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Activities within the framework of the RoK-FOR JAP

• Research e.g. basic or applied research, sharing of RTD infrastructure, joint

R&D projects…

• Capacity building e.g. expert mobility, training, mentoring, sharing good

practices…

• Knowledge transfer between research and business e.g. SME

involvement, innovation support and services for SMEs, mobility between research

and industry…

• Other type of international cooperation e.g. visits, conferences,

exchange, advocacy for policy and strategy processes…


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RoK-FOR JAP initial stage 2011-2013

Goal of the initial stage of the JAP implementation in 2011-2013 is

to extend the activities to involve key regional stakeholders

also beyond the RoK-FOR project consortium partners and to

ensure sustainability of these contacts beyond the project

duration.

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RoK-FOR Cluster Croatia-Serbia ACHIEVEMENTS I

Stakeholder panels (identifing challenges, key stakeholders networking, linking RoK-FOR project with ongoing

processes and projects and relevant policies)

CROATIA

1st Panel entitled "Forest Biomass-Where are we now and where are we

heading?"- held on Dec 2010 at Zagreb (12 participats)

2nd Panel held on April 2011 at Vinkovci, in the way of identifying challenges

concerning renewable energies on local level (Vukovar Srijem County) -24 prs

SERBIA

Two stakeholder panels took place also, the 1st in Novi Sad (Nov 2010) and the

2nd in Belgrade (April 2011), all together 62 participants

Cunclusions and findings derived from Stakeholder panels, primarily were

used for creation of Regional Research Agendas (RRA). Further, common

themes and topics for international cooperation were addressed in the JAP

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RoK-FOR Cluster Croatia-Serbia ACHIEVEMENTS II

Fact Finding Tour (06 - 08 June 2011)

RoK-FOR Mentoring Expert Group ’s official visit to the Croatia & Serbia (official meetings with local stakeholders and field trips: Zagreb, Vukovar-Srijem County in

Croatia, Vojvodina Province in Srbia)

• Purpose: identifying the concrete needs in Croatia and Serbia in trems of

bioenergy and production of wood biomass, by using field trips and discussions

with the municipal decision makers and developers

• Experts from Finland are specialised in wood biomass production,

harvesting and logistics, heat entrepreneurship and energy production

technologies

• Results: A practical offers for searching partners for cooperation and solving

determined problems. Proposed participation in Interreg IVc project for both

countries

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RoK-FOR Cluster Croatia-Serbia ACHIEVEMENTS III

Mentoring seminar on Regional cluster development

Zagreb, Oct 26 2011

• Objectives: practical examples of cluster formation and functioning,

regional approach.

• Presented topics: theoretical aspects of clusters, existing clusters in

Croatia, developing process of wood based cluster in Serbia, some

examples of forest and energy clusters (development) in EU, about

options and strategies for cluster creation, example how science,

industry & policy can work together

• Paricipants: representatives of clusters from Croatia and some from

EU, experts in field of clustering from EU, local stakeholders from

Croatia and Serbia, other interested people

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RoK-FOR Cluster Croatia-Serbia ACHIEVEMENTS IV

Benchmarking BIOCLUS visit to Styria -

BIOCLUS

IN2WOOD

RoK-FOR interlink (Nov 14-17, 2011)

• Purpose: linking some of key-stakeholders from Crotia and Serbia

already active in ROK-FOR with Austrian stakeholders and/or

enterprises in terms of:

a) Logistics of bio-mass, machinery, technology, etc.

b) Organizational solutions of bio-energy facilities from micro to large plants

c) Whole value chain from wood chips production to the consumers

d) Short rotation plantations

e) Cooperation of small-scale forest owners in forest management as well as

in running smaller and larger bio-energy plants.

• Established fluent communication with representatives of BIOCLUS and

IN2WOOD projects, and mutually expresed interest regarding a specific proposal

at the next Regionas of Knowledge call

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RoK-FOR Cluster Croatia-Serbia ACHIEVEMENTS V

2nd RoK-FOR conference: "Forest Biomass for Renewable Energy:

Building Regional Cooperation and Clusters for New Opportunities"

27 Oct 2011, Zagreb

• The goal of the Conference was to present to public the highlights of the Joint

Action Plan for interregional cooperation developed within the project and displayed

forest sector potential in renewable energy and clustering

• The event consisted of interesting presentations enriched with key-note

speakers, panel discussion, planning for the future, and first of all lots of

discussions among the participants.

• Main topics were: regional aspects on wood/ bioenergy clusters & bioenergy

issues and across the EU, RoK-FOR Joint Action Plan for pan-European

cooperation within forest based Lead Markets

• Press conference was organised

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