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Green Deal and the forest-based industry

11 February 2020

Announced by the European Commission at the end of 2019, what opportunities does the Green Deal potentially represent for the European forest industry? Read the interview with Andreas Kleinschmit von Lengefeld, Director of International Operations at Institute of Technology FCBA.

5 February 2020

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Charta für Holz 2.0 im Dialog

10 December 2019 | Berlin, Germany

On December 10th 2019, Michael Carus, CEO of WoodCircus partner nova-Institute, attended at “Charta für Holz 2.0 im Dialog” in Berlin. The event, organized by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in cooperation with the German Council for Sustainable Development, intended to encourage the discussion about the catchy question on how we want to live in the future regarding climate, values and change.

23-24 October 2019 | Cologne, Germany

The 12th European Congress of the Forum Holzbau took place in Cologne under the title « Efficient Building with Wood in Urban Space ». As in previous years, more than 30 lectures covered a wide range of topics during the 2-day congress.

13 November 2019 | Cologne, Germany

WoodCircus consortium partner nova-Institut GmbH is organising the next WoodCircus workshop on the 13th of November at the Maternushaus Congress Centre in Cologne, Germany. The workshop will concentrate on the methodology to evaluate best practice case studies with stakeholder discussions on how to investigate case studies that belong to a circular or partly circular wood value chain. The workshop will be organised as a side event of the world largest biocomposites event, the 8th Biocomposites Conference Cologne.

More information & registration: https://lnkd.in/dTAidwv

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between FCBA and VTT

10 July 2019 | Helsinki, Finland

Institute of Technology FCBA and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim to strengthen research cooperation and exchange of ideas between the two institutes in the field of circular bioeconomy.

8 July 2019 | Espoo, Finland

The WoodCircus Project Meeting gathered a total of 25 partners in the premises of the project coordinator VTT in Espoo, Finland on Monday 8th of July 2019. Alongside with project task updates and general assembly decisions, the main focus of the day was on an in-depth discussion on the results, gaps or needs identified during the fact finding process.

27 May 2019 | Resource efficiency in forestry and timber industry, Wald und Holz NRW

One of the 17 WoodCircus partners, Nova-institut (DE), participated to the Summit performing fact finding interviews and meeting people from various organizations working on the topics of wood recycling, resource efficiency and cascade use of wood.

30 January – 1st February 2019 | Warsaw, Poland

The WoodCircus project kick-off meeting was held in Warsaw, Poland, between the 30th of January and the 1st of February 2019. A first fact finding workshop was held to gather preliminary information on recycling, waste wood management and side stream valorisation activities from both technical and regulatory point of view in the EU13 countries.

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