Wednesday, 18 September 2019, at 9.00-16.30
(for the representatives of EFI member organisations and Member Countries only)
Provisional Agenda
Members´ dialogue session |
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| 8.00 | Registration opens |
| 9.00 | Governance programme (50´) Session documents |
| Introduction (5´) | |
| Marc Palahí, EFI | |
| Video greeting from Robert Nasi, CIFOR | |
| Reflections from the FLEGT and REDD Unit (15´) | |
| Jussi Viitanen, EFI | |
| Valérie Merckx, EFI | |
| Focus and activities of the new Governance programme (15´) | |
| Georg Winkel, EFI | |
| Discussion (15´) | |
| 9.50 | Structuring the European forest research |
| Introduction (5´) | |
| Robert Mavsar, EFI | |
| Insights on Horizon Europe (10´) | |
| Martin Greimel, BOKU (presentation) | |
| FTP Strategic Research Agenda (10´) | |
| Johan Elvnert, FTP (presentation) | |
| Panel discussion (45´) | |
| Catherine Bastien, INRA | |
| Marc Hanewinkel, University of Freiburg | |
| Robert Marušák, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague | |
| Ritva Toivonen, University of Helsinki | |
| Josef Turok, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic | |
| 11.00 |
Coffee break |
Decision-making session |
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11.30 |
Item 1 |
| Opening of the Conference decision-making session (10´) | |
| a) Registration of the Participants | |
| b) Adoption of the Agenda (voting item) | |
| 11.40 | Item 2 |
| Election of the Officers of the Conference (5´) (voting item) | |
| a) Vice-chair of the Conference 2020 | |
| b) Minute-checkers | |
| c) Vote-checkers | |
| 11.45 | Item 3 |
| Board's report to the Conference (10´) | |
| 11.55 | Item 4 |
| EFI Reports and Plans (30´) (voting item) | |
| a) Review and adoption of the Annual report 2018 | |
| b) Approval of the audited financial statements 2018 | |
| c) Approval of the Work Plan for 2020 | |
| 12.25 | Item 5 |
| Election of Auditors of Accounts for 2020 (5´) (voting item) | |
| 12.30 | Item 6 |
| Board members 2019-2022 (5´) (voting item) | |
| a) Re-election of one Board members for the period of 2019-2022 | |
| 12.35 | Item 7 |
| Annual Conference venues (10´) | |
| a) Venue of the Annual Conference in 2020 | |
| 12.45 | Item 8 |
| Conference and membership issues (25´) | |
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a) A welcome to new members |
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| b) Membership fees for 2020 (voting item) | |
| c) Changes to the Conference Rules of Procedure (voting item) | |
| 13.10 | Item 9 |
| Any other business (5´) | |
| a) EFI fellowships | |
| Closing of the Decision-making session | |
| 13.15 | Official photograph and lunch |
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Members' dialogue session continues |
| 14.30 | Parallel sessions |
| Session 1: Building science bridges with China (60´) session documents | |
| Moderator: Elena Paoletti, CNR, Chair of the EFI Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) | |
| Framework, survey and EFI's future institutional presence (10´) | |
| Marc Palahí, EFI | |
| EFI's work on Europe-China forest bioeconomy (10´) | |
| Xiaoqian Chen, EFI | |
| Panel discussion (20´) | |
| J. Bo Larsen, University of Copenhangen | |
| Xu Xinwu, Nanjing Forestry University | |
| Xia Jun, Asia-Pasific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet) | |
| Discussion (20´) | |
| Session 2: Open science and data: which EFI position (60´) session documents | |
| Introduction (10´) | |
| moderator Erwin Dryer, INRA | |
| EFI's views on open science (10´) | |
| Robert Mavsar, EFI | |
| Comments (10´) | |
| Gary Kerr, Forest Research, EFI SAB | |
| Discussion (30`) | |
| 15.30-16.30 | Interactive networking coffee with EFIers |
| 17.45 | Departure from the MacDonald Norwood Hall to the EFI Gala dinner |
| 18.30 |
Civic Reception hosted by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen |
| 19.30-22.00 | Gala dinner in Beach Ballroom (dress code: smart casual) |