National Forest Research Institutes in Europe

Forstliche Versuchs- und ForschungsanstaltBaden - Württemberg

Konstantin von Teuffel

National Forest Research Institutes in Europe

A capacity to provide research to EU policy objectives

by

Konstantin von Teuffel, Freiburg



NFRI‘s in Europe

• Presentation based on a survey to NFRIs carried out by NFRI task force in September-October 2004

• 46 institutions were adressed, 33 answers

• Results still preliminary, more questionaires coming in

• objective:

• To assess the capacity of NFRI‘s on a European scale• To analyse the funding structure of NFRI‘s• To obtain information on the fields of research of NFRI‘s• To assess the role of EU-Funding for NFRI‘s



NFRI‘s in Europe



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NFRI NFRI 2 NFRI 3 NFRI4 NFRI5 NFRI6 Estimated share of other organisations

Share of NFRI's in forest research per country



Forest research person-years in 2003 (Europe total) (2997 person-years)

55%

45%

Forest research with a degreein forestry

Forest research with a degreein a discipline other thanforestry



Topics covered

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Wood science Forest genetics,physiology and

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Applied vs. Basic Research Profile (Europe total)

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Annual amount of funding for NFRI forest research (Europe total) (298 845 886 Euros)

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22%National (220 571 085 Euros)

Eu funding (12 478 820Euros)

Funding from other sources(63 890 982 Euros)



Current involvement in EU projects

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Organisations that have 5 ormore ongoing EU projects

Organisations with less than5 ongoing EU projects

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Attractiveness of EU FP6 and FP7 instruments for NFRIs (total)

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3%7%

YES without hesitation

YES but I wish to get more information

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Thank you for your attention!

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