FTP Task Forces
The Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform sets up dedicated task forces (TF) to deal with emerging and/or important issues within the forest-based sector. Task forces have a limited duration and report directly to FTP Project Management.
The following task forces are currently active or have recently completed their work:
Biorefinery Task Force
Coordinator: Johan Elvnert, FTP/CEI-Bois, FTP Management Group
The biorefinery task force was set up with the aim of creating a network of leading forest-based sector experts within the domain of 'wood-based' biorefinery. In 2007 the TF published a report entitled 'A Bio-solution to Climate Change' (available here) which described the different possible biorefinery pathways available to the sector in Europe and suggested five main directions for future research.
Four years on, there is now a need for a new vision on biorefinery for the forest-based sector and for this reason a new biorefinery task force has been formed. Created in 2010, the new TF is developing a Biorefinery Roadmap for the sector for 2020, looking ahead to contributing fully to a European bio-based economy. Publication of the Biorefinery Roadmap is expected later in 2011.
FP7 Task Force
Coordinator: Martin Greimel, NSG Austria
This task force, set up in September 2007, aims at enhancing the FTP's success within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The TF tries to achieve this, first of all, by extracting early information on FP7 Work Programmes (WPs) under development. Moreover, it analyses this information in order to organise coordinated actions through national channels, in close collaboration with FTP Management. Information on potential topics in up-coming WPs is distributed to FTP stakeholders in order to stimulate the preparation of good proposals. Further information about FTP in FP7 is provided here.