ANN-ETFRN (Austrian National Node - European Tropical Forest Research Network)
Abstract
The focal point ANN-ETFRN / Tropical Research Network Austria exists since 1993 at the Institute for Forest Ecology at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna. Initially it fulfilled only the function of a national node of ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network). Since 1996 ANN-ETFRN is also a focal point of the Austrian Network for Environmental Research, initiated and funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Transport (now Ministry for Education, Science and Culture). The Austrian Network for Environmental Research (http://nuf.boku.ac.at ) is intended to support the internationalisation of Austrian environmental research. Main objective of the Austrian Network for environmental research is the promotion of international research activities and the support of environmental scientists. The network functions as an interdisciplinary think-tank for developing future-oriented concepts and international research co-operations. The network regards itself as a partner for national and international scientists, students, research managers, policy makers and organisations involved in research co-ordination and funding at national and international level. ETFRN (http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/) is a forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with (sub-)tropical forest research. The ETFRN Network seeks to promote the involvement of European research expertise towards the conservation and wise use of forests and woodlands in tropical and subtropical countries. The ETFRN Coordination Unit is funded by the Directorate General Research of the European Commission under the INCO (International Cooperation) programme. Office space and general support for the Coordination Unit is provided by the Tropenbos Foundation in the Netherlands. The network has participants in 16 European countries, including Norway, Switzerland, and all European Union member states, except Luxemburg. There is an ETFRN focal point (national node) in each of these countries. ANN-ETFRN supports the objectives of ETFRN and the Austrian research community in tropical forest research. It aims at establishing a network among these researchers and other researchers in tropical environmental research to strengthen existing co-operations, and to create new ones, and it acts as an interactive platform for researchers, organisations and students in the field of tropical environmental research.
keywords network tropical research tropical rainforest Participatory Research and Learning
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Project staff
Gerhard Glatzel
Em.O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Gerhard Glatzel
gerhard.glatzel@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.07.2001 - 31.12.2002
Martin Wresowar
Dipl.-Ing. Martin Wresowar
martin.wresowar@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91244
Project Staff
01.07.2001 - 31.12.2002
BOKU partners
External partners
European Commission, DG Research
Nicole Bounaga-Riveill
partner
Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC)
Monnik Desmeth
partner
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Universtiy
Jens Dragsted
partner
ENGREF/SILVOLAB
Marguerite Reder
partner
Federal Research Center of Forestry and Forest Products
Jochen Heuveldop
partner
Directorate of Forest Resource Development
Nikolas S Efstathiadis
partner
Council for Forest Research & Development, Dept. of Agriculture and Food Engineering, University College Dublin
Miriam Ryan
partner
Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Institute of Forest and Agricultural Pathology and Zoology
Giovanni Preto
partner
European Tropical Forest Research Network c/o The Tropenbos Foundation
Willemine Brinkman
partner
The Tropenbos Foundation
Erik M Lammerts van Bueren
partner
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Forestry Department
Raul M de A Sardinha
partner
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria CIT-INIA
Alejandro Lopez de Roma
partner
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dep. of Forest Ecology
Anders Malmer
partner
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Groupe de foresterie pour le développement
Jean-Pierre Sorg
partner
Tropical Forest Forum, c/o NRI
Jane Thornback
partner
University of Helsinki, Tropical Silviculture Unit
Olavi Luukkanen
partner
Centre for International Environment & Development Studies, Noragric
J Boddens Hosang
partner