European Forest Institute
The European Forest Institute (EFI) is an international organization of European countries based in Joensuu / Finland. Its main objective is research on forest policy on a pan-European level, including the various aspects that need to be taken into account when designing forest policy (environment, forest use, markets and others).
history
The EFI was founded on September 9, 1993 as an association under Finnish law with its seat in Joensuu. With the creation of the Convention on the European Forest Institute, the association was transformed into an international organization on August 28, 2003. The reasons lay mainly in Finnish association law, which led to high tax burdens on employees, which meant that researchers were offered relatively unattractive conditions for collaboration. The convention was ratified by 15 European countries, the signatory states, in mid-2007. Members of the EFI are more than 130 organizations from over 30 European countries.
Organs and other institutions
The organs are
- the Council ( Council )
- the annual conference ( Annual Conference )
- the Board ( Board )
- The secretary
Other institutions are the regional offices, which deal with specific regional focus topics. EFIMED, based in Barcelona, has been dealing with the specifics of forestry in the Mediterranean region since 2007 . In April 2009 in Freiburg i.Br. set up the EFICENT. It focuses on the Central European countries of Germany, France, Switzerland and the Benelux countries. An integral component of EFICENT is the Observatory for European Forests (OEF) based in Nancy , France. In contrast to the other regional offices, the observatory has a pan-European focus and supports the EFI in particular in its information strategy and data delivery for forest policy decisions at national and international level. Further EFI regional offices are to be established in Vienna (Central Eastern Europe) and Copenhagen (Northern Europe / Scandinavia) in the future.
The EFI also oversees some project centers that deal specifically with specific issues. These are project-related alliances of different organizations related to forestry, whose work is coordinated by an EFI member. They are financially autonomous and usually have a term of five years. The EFI is currently (August 2009) coordinating six project centers (CONFOREST, EUFORIC, IEFC, INNOFORCE, PHOENIX, PROCES).
The Scientific Advisory Board is supposed to guarantee the quality of the work of the EFI and its project centers by evaluating the projects carried out.
Web links
References
- ↑ Ordinance of the Federal Government on the Convention of August 28, 2003 on the European Forest Institute at www.umwelt-online.de
- ↑ List of members of the EFI ( Memento of the original dated September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ EFIMED on http://www.efi.fi/ ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release on the kick-off meeting at www.efi.int ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Institutional framework of the project centers, described on www.efi.int ( Memento from May 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Overview of the project centers on www.efi.int ( Memento of December 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Explanation by the EFI ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
