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Non-native tree species – adaptability, potential and risk evaluation (Introspeces)
Douglas fir is one of the most important introduced species in southern and central Europe. Douglas-fir shows best results in the mountain belt in the zone of beech and oak forests, but such habitats have recently been significantly threatened by climate change. Research on adaptability in such forests will shed light on the adaptability of Douglas fir of unknown origin.
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025
Future wood properties in pine and oak in Central Europe (J4-50130)
The main objective of the project is to evaluate the effects of changing environmental conditions on productivity, but also on structural, physical and mechanical properties of pine and oak species adapted to temperate (i.e. Pinus sylvestris L. and Quercus robur L.) and sub-Mediterranean growing conditions (i.e. Pinus nigra J. F. Arnold and Quercus pubescens Willd) at different sites in Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.11.2023 - 31.10.2026
Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia - SPOZNAJ
The project will greatly accelerate the adoption of open science practices among project partners and make a substantial contribution to the digital transformation of scientific research. Partners will collaborate to share knowledge and experiences related to implementing open science principles and disseminate them to public infrastructure institutes (IZUM, ARNES), public agencies (ARIS, NAKVIS), privately owned higher education and research institutes, researchers and experts from the commercial sector, private researchers, and the broader interested public.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Skupne službe
Duration: 02.08.2023 - 30.06.2026
Optimizing the relationship between sustainability and timber quality in European forests: quantifying the effect of close-to-nature silviculture on wood properties (ForQual)
Close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) is becoming more and more important, as it can maintain forest carbon stock and produce an annual yield of timber at the same time. However, relatively little is known of the effect this type of forest management can have on timber quality. The overall objective of this project aims to address this gap by studying the relationship between CNS and timber quality by examining it at three different levels.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 15.06.2023 - 14.06.2026
Evaluating the impact of precipitation interception on erosion
The main objective of the project is to build on the knowledge of interception of rainfall by different vegetation types and the impact of interception on rainfall erosivity based on high frequency measurements on existing research plots.
ARIS
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2026
Cooperation to strengthen the performance of project offices (SKUPP)
The SKUPP project aims to strengthen the competences of the consortium of project offices and researchers at our institutes through the organisation of numerous events, networking between partners, with external stakeholders and other consortia, and with new jobs in project offices. The aim of the SKUPP consortium is to strengthen the supporting environment of project offices in public research organisations and to increase performance in centralised EU programmes during the application, implementation and reporting phases, which will contribute to the wider reputation and visibility of our institutes and, in the long term, to a greater reputation in the international environment.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Skupne službe
Duration: 14.04.2023 - 30.06.2026
GIFT - Green Infrastructure for Forest and Trees
The Green Infrastructure for Forest and Trees (GIFT) Project, funded by the Interreg Europe financial mechanism, represents a collaborative effort involving 10 partner institutions from 9 European countries. The project aims to empower and involve the crucial role of green infrastructure, particularly forests and trees, in contemporary regional and urban development, environmental and biodiversity conservation, agricultural, landscape, forestry and other legislation and strategies.
Interreg
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.03.2023 - 31.05.2027
FOREST4EU – European innovation partnership network promoting operational group dedicated to forestry and agroforestry
FOREST4EU is a Horizon Europe project aiming at connecting existing Operational Groups (OGs) from different countries around Europe, to favour the transfer of knowledge and best practices between experts in this field. The main goal is to develop a European multi-actor network to promote and disseminate best practices related to the innovation of national forest and agroforestry among EU countries.
Horizon Europe
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
OptFORESTS
OptFORESTS, a Horizon Europe project financed by the EU, will support the protection and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe, by increasing cooperation and knowledge sharing to foster adaptation to climate change and biodiversity-supporting practices in forestry. The project will generate research outputs supporting the choice of more diverse FRM adapted to future climates, and inform assisted gene flow and migration, foster the sustainable use, adaptation and resilience of naturally-regenerated forests, develop methods to expand and diversify nursery production, analyse and develop nature-based solutions, tools and new cultural trajectories and demonstrate biodiversity restoration solutions for degraded forest ecosystems.
Horizon Europe
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.11.2022 - 31.10.2027
Natural regeneration processes in beech forests after disturbance
This bilateral project is built upon the complementary expertise of the researchers from Slovenia and the Czech Republic and uses the existing experimental settings in Slovenia. The main objective of this project is to define the roles of mycorrhizal fungi, saprotrophic fungi and bacteria in forest soils with the aid of experiments that manipulate their relative abundances by cutting trees.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.11.2022 - 31.10.2025
Determining the effectiveness of different approaches in the implementation of the forest order to prevent overpopulation of spruce beetles using the most effective pheromone preparation and traps
The project is investigating how different approaches to managing logging residues reduce the risk of spruce bark beetle overpopulation in surrounding forests. The research will be carried out at three sites in Slovenia.
ARRS CRP
Oddelek za varstvo gozdov
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
The impact of climate change on avalanches in Slovenia
Based on data from recent decades, this project will study new correlations between geographical variables, such as weather factors, and avalanches. Their occurrence will be determined through monitoring at two sites and assessed according to the current weather and snow-cover characteristics measured.
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Oaks for future forests and forestry in Slovenia: Quercus robur versus Quercus petraea (J4-4541)
The project focuses on two temperate, ecologically and economically important oak species in Slovenia: Quercus robur versus Quercus petraea; their future distribution and growth potential.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Drafting of the platform and guidelines for forest management in torrential forest areas (CRP V4-2212)
Forest management in torrential areas should pay special attention to soil erosion and erosion control measures, both in terms of construction and maintenance of forest infrastructure and silvicultural measures. This project aims to fill the gaps in forest management in torrential areas.
ARRS CRP
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Climate changes and ectomycorrhizal fungi - how far can we go with an assisted migration of truffles?
The project “Climate changes and ectomycorrhizal fungi - how far can we go with an assisted migration of truffles?” aims to connect knowledge of forestry, agriculture, climate changes and fungi cultivation, for a better understanding of responses, interactions with environment, and distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi (truffles) as a result of changes in climate on soils and below-ground parts of plants in symbiosis.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Planning of technologies and quality assessment of forest operations in support of the bio-economy
The main objective of the project is to provide guidelines for spatial planning of timber extraction technologies and quality assessment of forest operations (tending work and regular felling) and construction of forest roads.
ARRS CRP
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
Support for improved management of the interactions between large herbivores and forests
The main objective of the proposed project is to consolidate the existing and provide additional necessary knowledge to cover gaps and, above all, transfer it to planning of wildlife management and silvicultural planning, all with the aim of improving the management of forest-wildlife relations and wildlife and forests in general.
ARRS CRP
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025
eForestry
In the forestry sector, eForestry will upgrade infrastructure and basic resources, connect stakeholders in the forest process through digitalization and centralization of processes, and ensure user-friendly digital public services. The digital transformation will thus ensure the rationalization of administrative and inspection tasks and, above all, more efficient and faster customer service.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.07.2022 - 31.12.2026
PathFinder - Towards an Integrated Consistent European LULUCF Monitoring and Policy Pathway Assessment Framework
It is often not the knowledge that hinders change but the acceptance of the knowledge by stakeholders and uptake in transformative policies. PathFinder aims to demonstrate a mobilization of scientific approaches in co-design of forest management pathways that navigate these trade-offs to identify the decisions and policies that act as steppingstones in achieving these pathways.
Horizon Europe
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.03.2022 - 28.02.2025
Forest-wood value chain and climate change: transition to circular bioeconomy (P4-0430)
The overall objective of this research programme is to identify current challenges along the entire forest-based value chain and to search for optimal solutions by using all available knowledge and resources (laboratories and databases).
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2027