Characterization of European forest disturbances

Description

FORWARDS is a Horizon Europe project that will prototype the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool that will help demonstrate the impact of climate change on forests and guide decision-making for practical forest management.

With this call, FORWARDS aims to compile European-wide forest disturbance reference data to (i) produce statistically rigorous estimates of disturbances in Europe, (ii) develop new methods for the near real-time mapping of forest disturbance using remote sensing data, and (iii) support the analysis of the effects of the different forest disturbances types over different forest types in Europe.

Projects supported by this call should contribute to the development of an exhaustive, open-access forest disturbance reference dataset for Europe.

Grant documentation

  1. Call for grants
  2. Grant Submission guidelines
  3. Corrigendum
  4. Annex 1: Application form- Part A
  5. Annex 2: Application form- Part B
  6. Annex 3: Power of Attorney
  7. Annex 4: Declaration
  8. Annex 4A: Gender Equality Declaration
  9. Annex 5: Grant Agreement template

Questions and answers

The following schedule will be followed for the publication of the Questions and answers for this grant process:

  • Answers for questions received during the period 31 October – 8 November 2023 are published below.

Questions and answers (published 10 November 2023)

  • Answers for questions received during the period 9 November- 22 November 2023 will be published on 24 November 2023.

No questions were received during the period 9 November- 22 November 2023

  • Answers for questions received during the period 23 November – 6 December 2023 are published below

Questions and answers (published 8 December 2023)

  • Answers for questions received during the period 7 December – 13 December 2023 are published below.

Questions and answers (published 15 December 2023)

  • Answers for questions received during the period 14 December – 8 January 2024 are published below.

Questions and answers (published 10 January 2024)

Award notice (pdf) for grant G-06-2023 Characterization for European forest disturbances

Third Party Projects (pdf)

Title: Characterization of European forest disturbances

Procurement procedure: Open grant

Reference number: G-06-2023

Value: EUR 150,000

Date for publishing: 31/10/2023