The European Commission will further simplify participation in Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme. New funding rules will reduce administrative costs to participants and help prevent accounting errors.

We are pleased to announce that the 15th InnovaWood General Assembly will take place from 28-30th March in Helsinki (Tuusula), Finland.

Deadline registration: 20th March 2017

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Helsinki!

InnovaWood invites you to participate in a new InnovaWood initiative that aims to further develop and support the European higher education in wood science and technology.
Initiated by an increasing difficulty to attract sufficient numbers of students to wood science and technology courses and the struggle to maintain sufficient resources to cover a wide range of topics and disciplines, forces are joined to establish a so called InnovaWood Wood Science Module bank.

On  Wednesday 14 September the Information Day & Brokerage event on the 2017 calls for proposals of Horizon 2020's Societal Challenge 5 "Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials" was organised in Brussels.

Some of the presented calls in SC5 in 2017 might be of interest to the forestry-wood value chain.

The one-week intensive training course «Woodbased Panels: Surface Treatment» will take place at the Bern University of Applied Sciences from 23 to 27 January 2017.

This course provides a complete description of coating for wood and wood materials. It deals with the substrate and coating characterization, the application processes, and finally the evaluation of coated surface performance.