COST on the go: the experience of an Italian COST Actions’ representative Piermaria Corona.

COST on the go: the experience of an Italian COST Actions’

representative

Piermaria Corona

Steering Committee and Management Committee of FP1206 Action European mixed forests. Integrating Scientific Knowledge in Sustainable Forest Management (2013-2017)

Steering Committee and Management Committee of FP0701 Action Post fire management in Southern Europe (2008-2012)

FP0603 Action Forest Models (2008-2012)

E43 Action Harmonisation of National Forest Inventories in Europe: Techniques for Common Reporting (2004-2008)

  strengthening and building up S&T international communities

sharing knowledge & fostering the emerging of new ideas (new frontiers, new applications)

 hands-on experience of international environments (distinctively useful for ECI), even with respect to EU incoming Countries

 helping to support the international science / policy interface: COST Actions open not only to researchers from universities and other public or private research institutions, but also to NGOs, industry, SMEs, regulators and policy makers

Short-TermScientificMissions

TrainingCourses

Meetings

networking tools

DISSEMINATION

website material for display or distribution (flyers, posters, etc.) multimedia content conferences and workshops publications (peer reviewed journal papers, book of abstracts, handbooks, guidelines etc.)

workshop & conferences

COST Action EUMIXFOR Workshop

co-sponsored by IUFRO WGs 1.01.06 & 4.02.06, Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF), Italian Academy of Forest Sciences (AISF)

SILVICULTURE OF MIXED FORESTS IN EUROPE

28-29 May 2015

Consiglio per la ricerca e la sperimentazione in agricoltura, Forestry Research Centre (CRA-SEL), Arezzo, Italy

Objective

This Workshop is intended to give participants direct insight into and experience of the practice and potential of the silviculture of mixed species forests, with particular (but not exclusive) emphasis on Europe. Topics to be covered will include: regeneration methods; intermediate treatments and thinning; conversion methods (including coppice to high forests and vice-versa); silvicultural recovery of abandoned mixed stands and of mixed stands from recent natural colonization of former agricultural fields; challenges for mixed tree species silviculture to enhance wood and non-wood productions, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services; challenges for mixed tree species silviculture under global changes and landscape management. Both presentations synthesizing information at the European scale and presentations focusing on more local studies are invited. The target audience is scientists, young researchers and managers working on, or collaborating with, silvicultural projects in mixed species forests.

peer-reviewed scientific articles (especially, reviews & meta-analyses)

booke-book

reports

increasing the visibility of the considered topic and attracts other scientists interested in it, allowing the research community in question to grow and achieve a critical mass of competences, skills, experiences, and built consensus necessary to apply for further R&I funds ( … new projects)

Scientific project outcome

FP7 projectIP ENV.1.3.1.1FUME: Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world

TenderJRC Tender No IES/H/2008/01/154000/OCMASSIFF - Development of a methodology for the analysis of socioeconomic impact of forest fires and economic efficiency of fire management

H2020 proposalsCoordination and support actionsW-CoP - Wildfire Communication on Prevention by Community of Practices

Improved forest management models ISIB-04b-2015LINKFORMOD - Linking models for an innovative and integrated forest management in EU

from networking to excellence

advancing scientific, technological or social knowledge through the international coordination:

added value of networking (number of Countries involved, North-South/West-East issues; inclusiviness)

scientific, technological and/or socio-economic impact

need to be very specific on how to address the listed demands

quality and efficiency of the implementation (coherence and effectiveness of the workplan)

S&T EXCELLENCE & IMPACT & IMPLEMENTATION

soundness of the challenge, multi-disciplinarity

progress beyond the state-of the-art and innovation potential

measures to maximise impact

appropriateness of management structures and procedures

level of risk and level of potential innovation/breakthroughs

the former science organisation which was structured into nine science and technology domains has been replaced by a new organisation aiming at guaranteeing a fully open and bottom-up approach through the establishment of a single Scientific Committee

this also includes a renewed evaluation and selection procedure aiming at identifying breakthrough ideas and favoring interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects

Scientific Committee: purpose and responsibilities

the Scientific Committee (SC) is composed of 36 high-level experts (one from each COST Member Country and 1 from Cooperating State)

SC gives advice to the Committee of Senior Officials on scientific and technological orientation of COST

The SC will fulfill the following tasks:

1- Selection of proposals to be approved by the Committee of Senior Officials

During the selection of proposals for COST Actions: Identification, among the list of proposals presented by the Review Panels, of those that respond best to the COST mission and policies and the needs of the different research communities

Establishment of the short list of proposals that will be submitted for approval to the CSO

2- Overall supervision and quality control of procedures

before the evaluation of proposals for COST Actions

Examination and validation of the list of names and corresponding expertise of the independent External Experts to be assigned to each proposal Examination and validation of the membership of the ad-hoc Review Panels constituted for each Collection Date (number and composition)

after the evaluation

Ex-post analysis of the performance and the quality of work provided by Independent External Experts and Review Panel members with recommendations on their future engagement

3- monitoring and the final assessment of COST Actions

the SC will fulfill the following tasks:

• before SC Plenary meeting, validation of a summary of Progress Reports and Final Assessment Reports covering the Actions monitored or ended within the period between two SC Plenary meetings; • analysis of the outcomes and impact of the ended Actions

4- recommendations to the development of the COST Science and Technology strategy giving advice to the CSO on the matters of its remit

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