EFIMED Progress Meeting

14 April 2010

8.30-9.00 Registration of participants

9.00-9.30 Opening by Turkish authorities, EFI and FAO

9.30-10.10  EFIMED in progress and the AGORA project by Marc Palahi

10.10-10.50 Implementing the MFRA by Yves Birot, Andreas Kleinschmit and Julio Barbas

10.50-11.10 Discussion

11.10-11.40 Coffee break

11.40-12.00 News and projects from FAO Silva Mediterranea by C. Besacier and S. Todorov

12.00-12.20 The EFIMED Social and Private Profitability project by Robert Mavsar

12.20-12.40 Carbon and Water Fluxes from Forest Canopies by Trevor Keenan (EFIMED Award to the best PhD thesis on Mediterranean forestst)

12.40-13.20 Other initiatives/business 

13.20-14.30 Lunch

14.30-17.00 Parallel networking workshops

  • Profitability project
  • An ERA-NET on "Forest research in the Mediterranean region"
  • Experts meeting to prepare the position paper in the context of UfM
  • How to promote forest information to global audience?

17.00-17.30 Coffee break and poster session I