To support ongoing and future policy processes at the European Union level and strengthen the role that forests play in these processes, a harmonized and robust reliable European forest monitoring system is required that can be updated and enhanced as new data, new technologies and new knowledge become available. The system must efficiently integrate different data sources and help to overcome difficulties of data inconsistency.
The funding under the grant is provided by the European Forest Institute (EFI) Network Fund, which aims at fostering the transnational cooperation of EFI Associate and Affiliate members in implementing the EFI Strategy. Thus, the grant is primarily targeting EFI associate and affiliate member organisations with relevant expertise to collectively reflect, contextualize and synthesize existing scientific research and knowledge and develop a conceptual framework for a harmonised European forest monitoring system.