WPIC Session A - hosted by Bioregions Facility and woodPoP, moderated by Inazio Martinez de Arano, European Forest Institute (EFI), with short presentations from:
National best practices
1) The Czech Wood Policy Programme - Tomáš Krejzar, Director of Department for Forestry Policy and Economy, Czech Ministry for Agriculture - 2:35
2) The Austrian Wood Initiative - Mathias Deutz, Policy Officer, Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management - 12:32
3) The Swiss Wood Resource Policy - Michael Reinhard, Head of Division, Swiss Federal Office of the Environment, Forest Division - 21:53
Regional best practices
4) North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany: Wood construction targets in social housing - Stefanie Wieland, Team leader, Wald und Holz NRW - 32:28
5) Galicia, Spain: Public procurement guide - Jacobo Aboal Viñas, Director, XERA Agency for Forest Industry, Regional Government of Galicia - 42:46
6) Discussion: Policy measures supporting wood construction and innovative solutions: Which measures are working well? Where is room for improvement? - 50:19
7) The European Wood Policy Platform. Exchange, Connect, Collaborate. Veronika Steinhofer-Juch, WoodPoP Secretariat, International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) - 1:02:11
Wood Policy and Innovation Conference, 7 Nov 2024 in Brussels, co-organised by the Wood4Bauhaus Alliance, the Bioregions initiative, the European Wood Policy Platform woodPoP, and the Holzcluster Steiermark at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union, with support of the Horizon Europe project consortia NEB Academy Alliance (NEBA Alliance), EcoReFibre, AEGIR, and EUFORE and digiNEB.
PDF slides: bit.ly/w4bz
More info: wood4bauhaus.eu/conference-2024 | woodpop.eu