Project number: V4-2219
Project duration: Two years (1. Oct. 2022 – 30. Sep. 2024)
Overall budget: 175.000 €
Co-financing: 50% Ministry of agriculture, forestry and food, 50% Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Lead partner: Slovenian Forestry Institute
The research project fully follows the objectives of the topic and at the same time includes one additional objective. It addresses an important issue of the strategic dimension of sustainable management of forest resources and the forestry sector, which is also addressed by new European initiatives in the fields of forestry, biodiversity, soil protection, climate change and the bioeconomy. The comprehensive assessment of forest management methods has decisive implications in achieving the goals of decarbonisation of the European economy and at the same time providing various services and goods of forest ecosystems to society.
The first work package of the project proposal deals with the system of objectives and policy orientations at the global and European level in terms of the impact on national forest management policy. The assessment of the effects of different policies will show how strongly the forest and forestry are involved in different sectoral policies, which can be either coordinated or perhaps even contradictory. The third work package is extremely diverse in content and covers the impact of the Resolution on the National Forest Program (ReNGP) on forest management in Slovenia and the relationship to the effects of other (including international) policies. At the same time, a methodology for identifying and prioritizing strategic, operational and tactical issues in the context of forest resource management will be prepared and tested and will also offer a draft proposal for strategic themes and issues to be addressed in the forest dialogue. Therefore, in the third work package, a proposal for the construction of a strategic document will be prepared, which will cover the key problems and challenges respectively of forest ecosystem management and the forestry sector and at the same time it will provide space for identifying possible solutions. The problems' assumptions of the strategic orientations will be formed through the forest dialogue, which is designed as a highly participatory process and the implementation of which will be designed in the fourth work package. The key steps of the dialogue will be defined and substantiated, from the identification of key stakeholders, their involvement, assumptions of good practices from other sectors and other countries, and the indicative cost of the dialogue process in the context of alternative participatory formats.
Work packages:
- Coordination and dissemination
- Overview of relevant national, regional and global policies on forestry strategic planning
- Protocol on registering strategic priorities of Slovenian forestry, with definition of sectorial goals and measures for future development
- Implementing the forest dialog process