Domain Committee "Forests, their Products and Services (fps)"

I.B. Management Committee member list

Name	Country	E-mail
Antje POTTHAST	Austria	[e-mail]
Ute HENNIGES	Austria	[e-mail]
Katherine NOTT	Belgium	[e-mail]
Stefan VOORSPOELS	Belgium	[e-mail]
Edwin DE PAUW	Belgium	[e-mail]
Nadezda VRCHOTOVA	Czech Republic	[e-mail]
Tomas VANEK	Czech Republic	[e-mail]
Petr MARSIK	Czech Republic	[e-mail]
Jens Eibye SCHMIDT	Denmark	[e-mail]
Anne Belinda THOMSEN	Denmark	[e-mail]
Mihkel KALJURAND	Estonia	[e-mail]
Mihkel KOEL	Estonia	[e-mail]
Maria BORISSOVA	Estonia	[e-mail]
Tarja TAMMINEN	Finland	[e-mail]
Maija TENKANEN	Finland	[e-mail]
Hannu PAKKANEN	Finland	[e-mail]
Anna-Stiina JAASKELAINEN	Finland	[e-mail]
Denilson DA SILVA PEREZ	France	[e-mail]
Valerie SIMON	France	[e-mail]
Frederique BERTAUD	France	[e-mail]
Juergen PULS	Germany	[e-mail]
Roland ULBER	Germany	[e-mail]
Ina KORNER	Germany	[e-mail]
Dionyssios PERDIKIS	Greece	[e-mail]
Leandros SKALTSOUNIS	Greece	[e-mail]
Nikolaos FOKIALAKIS	Greece	[e-mail]
Istvan LELE	Hungary	[e-mail]
Andras VIG	Hungary	[e-mail]
Daniel HAYES	Ireland	[e-mail]
Marco ORLANDI	Italy	[e-mail]
Claudia CRESTINI	Italy	[e-mail]
Maris DAUGAVIETIS	Latvia	[e-mail]
Janis GRAVITIS	Latvia	[e-mail]
Tatjana DIZBITE	Latvia	[e-mail]
Janis RIZIKOVS	Latvia	[e-mail]
Richard GOSSELINK	Netherlands	[e-mail]
Henk A SCHOLS	Netherlands	[e-mail]
Nils-Olof NILVEBRANT	Norway	[e-mail]
Ingvild A. JOHNSEN	Norway	[e-mail]
Anna WAJS-BONIKOWSKA	Poland	[e-mail]
Radoslaw BONIKOWSKI	Poland	[e-mail]
Armando SILVESTRE	Portugal	[e-mail]
Cornelia VASILE	Romania	[e-mail]
Valentin POPA	Romania	[e-mail]
Maria Cristina POPESCU	Romania	[e-mail]
Irina VOLF	Romania	[e-mail]
Mirjana KOSTIC	Serbia	[e-mail]
Zdenka HROMADKOVA	Slovak Republic	[e-mail]
Matjaz KUNAVER	Slovenia	[e-mail]
Primoz OVEN	Slovenia	[e-mail]
Edita JASIUKAITYTE	Slovenia	[e-mail]
Jose Carlos DEL RIO	Spain	[e-mail]
Angel T. MARTINEZ	Spain	[e-mail]
Ana GUTIERREZ	Spain	[e-mail]
Mehrdad ARSHADI	Sweden	[e-mail]
Elisabeth SJOHOLM	Sweden	[e-mail]
Jairo LORA	Switzerland	[e-mail]
Alfred ABAECHERLI	Switzerland	[e-mail]
Huseyin SIVRIKAYA	Turkey	[e-mail]
Callum HILL	United Kingdom	[e-mail]
Mike JARVIS	United Kingdom	[e-mail]
Steve HARDING	United Kingdom	[e-mail]
Sanchi NENKOVA	Bulgaria	[e-mail]
Daniel VAN DE PAS	New Zealand	[e-mail]
Dimitris ARGYROPOULOS	United States	[e-mail]
Jorge COLODETTE	Brazil	[e-mail]

I.C. Overview activities and expenditure

2010 Budget
Total Action Budget: 110 k€ Remaining Action Commitment: 41395.81 €
Meetings
Meeting Type			Date	Place					Cost		Total
Core Group			19-20.5	Rome					3751.52		3751.52
MC			19-21.8	Hamburg					See workshops
											3751.52
STSM
Beneficiary			Date	Place					Cost		Total
Dr Anna Bogolitsyna			29.3-16.4	CRCC Paris, France					1500		1500
Mr Fokko Schütt			7.6-19.6	NULS, Norway					2000		2000
Mr Federico Santilli			2.8-30.10	VTT, Finland					2000		2000
Ms Hannah Schweinebarth			9.8-3.9	VITO, Belgium					2000		2000
Dr Kirsi Mikkonen			1.10-29.10	Innventia, Sweden					2000		2000
Mr Michael Schrems			15.10-31.12	Imperial College London, Great Britain					2000		2000
Mr Ronny Wahlström			22.11-10.12	BOKU University, Austria					2000		2000
											13000
Workshops
Title			Date						Cost		Total
			From	To
Current needs in Biorefinery analytics			4.2	5.2					19797		19797
Analytical methods for non-wood raw materials and their products and processes			19.8	21.8					23196.49		23196.49
											42993.49
Beneficiary			Date						Cost		Total
											0
Schools
Title			Date	Place					Cost		Total
											0
Dissemination
Title		Date		Place					Cost		Total
Poster									33		33
Flyers									94.73		94.73
											127.73
Others
Financial & Scientific Administration and Coordination											8731.44

II. Scientific Report
II.A. Innovative networking
Round Robin-type activities on method evaluation and analytical method development have been agreed on and initiated. Several biomass samples at different stages of processing have been identified as interesting and selected for distribution to WG members upon request from the partners responsible of each sample. Analytical results are compared and thus methods and pretreatments evaluated, with the common goal to develop novel methods applicable for the different sample types. This means of interaction will give new knowledge on analytical methods necessary for building fruitful Biorefinery projects and create new networks, also in the form of joint STSM works on these samples. Industry will eventually benefit from the application of novel methods, for example as better process and product safety, more efficient processes, and a better understanding on how to utilise biomass in the future. This will eventually also have a positive environmental impact and hopefully decrease the use of oil-based products in the future. So far, no direct spin offs of the Action have been identified.
II.B. Inter-disciplinary networking
So far, FP0901 has agreed to arrange an MC meeting/workshop in conjunction with the final meeting of FP0602 (Biotechnology for lignocellulose biorefineries) and the Italic 6 conference in September 2011. This is especially welcome since the biotechnology area is represented also in FP0901 analytical methods and both Actions and the conference will complement each other and broaden the cooperation within analytics, which most certainly will provide a scientific impact in the future.

Furthermore, 2011 there will be an international training “workshop” on biorefinery, which will be organized within the framework of the FP7 project BIOCORE. The FP0901 Chair was contacted by Michael O’Donohue (Research Director, LISBP-Biocatalysis group, INSA/INRA UMR 792, Institut National de la Recherche, Argronomique), with whom the first contact actually was established through the COST network.

II.C. New networking

The number of COST countries participating in FP0901 is currently 26, with one additional accepted by the MC but not yet by the DC. The non-COST participation is appreciable, with three members and one more pending the DC decision. Two of these are from countries with reciprocal agreements. For year 1, a 10% contribution of these will grow for next year. These participants have been actively participating in the meetings, presenting interesting results from their own work and in e-mail contacts with other participants. STSM visits to some of these partners have actively been under discussion but not yet realised. The increased number of parties from the beginning is hopefully going to be seen also in future budgets.

The actual number of registered participants is about 120, of which about 80 so far have been actively participating, but it seems as if many institutions have chosen one contact person while several are following our web pages. We are convinced that if the budget would have allowed larger meeting participation, this would actually also have been seen in these numbers. It also seems as if industry closely follows the web pages, as we hoped for. The number of female participants is very good, being about 50% and the number of ESRs is also growing. Again, it may be that from some places, it is more the supervisors that have registered. 7 STSMs have been completed year 1 and we expect a growth in this number now that this is getting more familiar to the participants. STSMs and ESRs are expected to participate actively in meetings, which also seem to be the case.

Individual contacts between FP0901 partners and other COST Action participants are on a high level. FP0901 has also agreed to arrange an MC meeting/workshop in conjunction with the final meeting of FP0602 (Biotechnology for lignocellulose biorefineries) and the Italic 6 conference in September 2011, which will broaden especially the networks of our ESRs. The contacts between parties within our Action also seem to be at a high level, where the STSM possibility is the best tool to even increase these contacts. Very welcome and in conjunction with the goals of the Action has been the good cooperation and new networks between groups from different areas. Most participants have a good track record in raising national and European research funds, but so far no joint projects have been initiated through the Action.

FP0901 has prepared and distributed a flyer to get other groups aware of the possibilities within the network. A poster was also presented at the EWLP 2010 meeting in Hamburg and at several smaller meetings in Finland. The Chair has also actively promoted the Action at several meetings in Europe. The number of publications by the partners involved in FP0901 in the field of the Action (year 2010) is 205 (66 articles and book chapters, 94 conference papers and 45 presentations in FP0901 workshops, see separate list/file)
III. Previous scientific report(s)
Reporting Period: 15/10/2009 to 31/12/2009
II.A. Innovative networking

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  Since FP0901 has recently only started up, there are no news or items to report here yet. We are currently getting organised and beginning the work.
  

II.B. Inter-disciplinary networking

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  Since FP0901 has recently only started up, there are no news or items to report here yet. We are currently getting organised and beginning the work.
  

II.C. New networking

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  Since FP0901 has recently only started up, there are only a few news or items to report here yet. We are currently getting organised and beginning the work.
  
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  Total number of individual participants involved in the Action work is currently 88 persons of which approximately 45’% are female and 40% Early Stage Researcher participants. However, these numbers will be updated and checked continuously.
  
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  Public web site recently established for FP0901