Transcript Introduction of national participation in COST Actions and

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 (20082012)
 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
networking tools
Meetings
Short-Term
Scientific
Missions
Training
Courses
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)
book
e-book
reports
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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 project
IP ENV.1.3.1.1
FUME: Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the
Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world
Tender
JRC Tender No IES/H/2008/01/154000/OC
MASSIFF - Development of a methodology for the analysis of socioeconomic impact
of forest fires and economic efficiency of fire management
H2020 proposals
Coordination and support actions
W-CoP - Wildfire Communication on Prevention by Community of Practices
Improved forest management models ISIB-04b-2015
LINKFORMOD - 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, NorthSouth/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
we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
we used when we created them (A. Einstein)
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