The creation of the European Network of Resin Territories will be its cornerstone.
On 30 and 31 May 2019, the SustForest Plus project is organising the international conference entitled "Exploitation of resin: Our forest have a promising future", which will be held at the Centro Ciência Viva da Floresta in the Portuguese municipality of Proença-a-Nova. The project Sust Forest Plus SOE2/P5/E0598 "Strategy and collaboration networks for multifunctionality, conservation and employment in the territory of southern Europe through resin extraction" runs from 2018 to 2021, is co-financed by the Interreg Sudoe Programme through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and aims to improve joint management methods of natural resin sources in the Sudoe territory as a strategic and preferential resource for industry, job creation and the rational use of natural resources.
The main objective of this meeting is to initiate the process of creation of the European Network of Resin Territories, the RETR, a sectorial and transnational association that will promote a Strategy for European Natural Resin (ERNE) aimed at promoting policies, programs and actions that support the improvement, conservation and valorization of this resource.
Specifically, one of the objectives of the PRTR will be to present the sector to the European Union's public decision-makers in Brussels in 2021, so that European natural resin can be taken into account in the design of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the European Union's Bio-economy Strategy and the Forest Policy guidelines.
This Network will promote the valorization and the use of the resin generated in the European mountains, it will allow the creation of employment and therefore, fixation of the population in the rural environment and, finally, it will promote a mark of origin of the resin of the south of Europe.
This event will mark the starting point for the creation of the Network, which is one of the cornerstones of the SustForest Plus project and is also essential for achieving its objectives: mobilising the European resin resource to supply the local industry in a stable way, improving the labour quality of resin workers, generating stable and quality employment in the rural areas of south-west Europe, and expanding the markets for derived products through the commercial and technological valorisation of the natural resin produced in these forests as a sustainable resource.
The SustForest Plus project has the following entities as beneficiary partners: Castilla y León Centre for Forest Services and Promotion and Industry (Cesefor), Centre Nacional de la Propriété Forestière (CNPF), European Forest Institute (EFI), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária (INIAV), the Portuguese municipalities of Penela and Proença-a-a-Nova and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM).
The project has also been supported by other entities related to the sector of natural resins and belonging to the territory SUDOE (Tunisia, Greece and Italy) which participate as associate partners of the project, which are: Asociación Nacional de Resineros (ANR), Associação das Indústrias de Madeira e Mobiliário de Portugal (AIMMP), Associação Florestal do Vale do Douro Norte (Aflorodounorte), Certis - Controlo e Certificação, Lda.., Decentraliced Administration of Epirus-Western Macedonia, Diputación Provincial de Soria, Essência Química - Resinas e Derivados, Eurorègion Nouvelle Aquitaine-Euskadi-Navarre, Federación de Asociaciones Forestales de Castilla y León (FAFCYLE), Groupement de Producteurs Forestiers du sud Gironde (CPFA), Holiste Laboratoires et Developpement, Industrial Resinera Valcan, S. A. (IRV), Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF), National Institute for Research in Rural Engineering Water and Forestry (INRGREF), Junta de Castilla y León, Luresa Resinas, S. L., Pôle de compétitivité Xylofutur, Quercus - Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza, Resipinus - Associação de Destiladores e Exploradores de Resina, Rincón de la Vega S.A.L., Sociedad de Resinas Naturales, S.A., Unione Di Comuni Valdarno E Valdisieve, United Ressins - Produção de Resinas S.A. and Centro de Investigación Forestal de Lourizán.
If you want to know the program, register or learn more information you can consult in International Conferences: "Resinero exploitation: Forests with future".
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