EU24071 Transformit (KB-50-003-032)

Nature oriented forest management is an important trend in Europe’s forest to achieve benefits of Nature based solutions. As a management approach it is taken up in EU Forest Strategy and Biodiversity Strategy. The overall objective of TRANSFORMIT is to demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of nature oriented integrative forest management (IFM) to combine productive forestry and biodiversity conservation by integrating existing practical and scientific knowledge, and to stipulate learning amongst science, policy and practice. WR will especially lay the basis for larger scale implementation of IFM through detailed large scale modelling and upscaling effectiveness of IFM. We will work with well established networks, such as the Integrate Network, and a corresponding network in USA. In Transformit Living Labs will be created where nature oriented forest management will be established. Moreover, modelling tools as well as practice tools (like marteloscopes1) will be established to assess impacts and feasibility of these management changes. The Netherlands has practised nature oriented management already since 1980s and its forest owners will be involved and learn with the tools as well as serve as examples for the rest of Europe.