Designing Trees for the Future
Trees4Future is an Integrative European Research Infrastructure project that aims to integrate, develop and improve major forest genetics and forestry research infrastructures. It will provide the wider European forestry research community with easy and comprehensive access to currently scattered sources of information (including genetic databanks, forest modelling tools and wood technology labs) and expertise.
This will help forestry researchers and the European forestry sector to respond, in a sustainable manner, to increasing demands for wood products and services in a context of genetic adaptation and changing climatic conditions. It will create a new and better linked research infrastructure which will increase our knowledge about the adaptation of forests to climate change and tree characteristics suited for tailor-made wood supply - thus optimising the short- and long-term exploitation of forest resources.
Call for Access to Infrastructures now open!
The Trees4Future Transnational Access programme offers external users free access to 28 state-of-the-art forest research structures and facilities across Europe. The facilities on offer focus on genetics, genomics and tree breeding, (eco-)physiology and biotechnology, wood science and technology and modelling/data analysis. They include genetic databanks, biobanks, laboratories, models and decision-support systems.
Trees4Future portal
Trees4Future portal will be designed to serve as a gateway for accessing the infrastructures to be made available through the project. Information accessible via the portal include all types of forest information from the various research infrastructures, databases, biobanks and other facilities and networks provided and integrated by the Trees4Future project through search-interfaces designed for different user groups.
