Technical seminar of the PLANFORLAB Operational Group
Description
On April 1, 2025, the Hotel Palacio de Aiete will host the seminar "Network of laboratory forests with improved plants to increase resilience and production in coniferous forests." This event will bring together forestry sector experts to analyze the challenges and opportunities in pine forest management in the Basque Country.
The seminar is organized by the Supra-autonomous Operational Group PLANFORLAB , an initiative that seeks to strengthen forest resilience through the use of improved plants. Participants include the Forestry Association of Galicia (AFG) , the Federation of Forestry Associations of Castilla y León (FAFCYLE) , the Confederation of Foresters of the Basque Country (CFPV) , the Agrarian Transformation Company SA, SME, MP (TRAGSA) , the Galician Business-University Foundation (FEUGA) and the Confederation of Forestry Organizations of Spain (COSE) as beneficiary members, and the LOURIZÁN Forestry Research Center , NEIKER Technology Center , the University of Valladolid Foundation (UVa) and the Institute of Forestry Sciences of INIA-CSIC , which act as subcontracted members.
The event program will include the following activities:
- 11:00 – Attendee registration
- 11:15 – Presentation of the Operational Group and project objectives
- Francisco Dans , Vice President of Institutional Relations at AFG
- 11:30 – The situation of pine forests in the Basque Country: Impact of the brown band and the PLANFORLAB project
- Amelia Uria , Coordinator of the Confederation of Foresters of the Basque Country
- 11:45 – Gangs, the reasons for their expansion and impact
- Eugenia Iturritxa , principal investigator in the Forest Health area at NEIKER
- 12:05 – Main outreach actions
- Beatriz Calviño , Innovation and National Projects Manager at FEUGA
- 12:05 - 12:10 – Question time and closing session
- 12:30 - 13:30 – Visit to the forest laboratory
- 2:00 PM – Lunch
This event is aimed at companies and professionals in the forestry sector, public administrations, universities, research and technology centers, as well as the general public interested in forestry innovation.