Project, 2022

FORWARDS

ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests

FORWARDS is a Horizon Europe project funded under call HORIZON-CL6-2022-CLIMATE-01 (Grant Agreement 101084481). It started on 1 November 2022. It prototypes the ForestWard Observatory to provide timely and detailed information on European forest resilience, and generates evidence-based knowledge to guide management using the principles of climate-smart forestry, ecosystem restoration and biodiversity preservation.

FORWARDS connects forest information obtained from the ground and from remote sensing by integrating the concept of Monitoring Supersites and innovative methods to characterise cause-effect relationships of forest disturbances. It develops tools for European-wide spatially explicit projections on forests and regionalised climate-smart forestry and restoration trajectories.

The project is coordinated by Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (Sweden).

The role of geoLAB

geoLAB is involved in all the tasks of the project: (a) timely and detailed information on the vulnerability of European forests to climate change impacts, (b) science-based knowledge to guide management, and (c) stakeholder engagement and public participation in decision-making processes.