Compile a modern database and economic assessment of primary and secondary resources across the EU (to be continued until 2050) The biotic sector Assess and develop scenarios for the availability and valorisation of forest-based raw materials in Europe in the global context under changing economic, social and climatic conditions. Develop new inventory techniques for determining quantity, quality, dimensions and specific properties of forest resources. Explore new space technologies to generate forest-related data, including high resolution space data, LIDAR-, IR- and radar data and to present those data layers together with relevant trade and climate change data Improve sustainable short-term rotation management schemes for woody biomass production. Develop flexible planning and decision support tools for obtaining sustainable wood supply from multipurpose forest landscapes. Monitor emotional and fact-based societal perceptions of forest management practices, reused and recycled wood-based products, bio- and nanotechnology and its derived products. Develop efficient technology for harvesting, extraction, processing and sorting terrain transportation to road side, including new ICT-systems, novel forest machine felling head measurement technology and models for processing characterisation, semi- and full automation support for increased harvesting and log processing efficiency. Develop efficient technology for low soil impact, minimize rutting and increase accessibility to wood resources where soil bearing capacity is limited. Required Research and Innovation Actions by 2050 Complete modern database and economic assessment of primary and secondary resources across the EU PRIORITY 2: Resource efficient processing, refining and converting of raw materials Activities to foster resource efficiency in processing, refining and converting of primary and secondary raw materials have resulted in a continued relative reduction in energy and water use and material input in the European raw material industries per tonne of material produced. However, the deployment of new technologies with in-built artificial intelligence and the big data will not only contribute to a more resource efficient production but allow for adjusting raw material input to a new era of customised manufacturing imposed by conscious customers and shifting market demands. Meanwhile, the circular economy will open up new business models for production side streams that become valuable raw materials for new products and reuse, paving the way for integrated industrial symbiosis that benefit from old and new value chains.
Compile a modern database and economic assessment of primary and secondary resources across the EU (to be continued until 2050) The biotic sector Assess and develop scenarios for the availability and valorisation of forest-based raw materials in Europe in the global context under changing economic, social and climatic conditions. Develop new inventory techniques for determining quantity, quality, dimensions and specific properties of forest resources. Explore new space technologies to generate forest-related data, including high resolution space data, LIDAR-, IR- and radar data and to present those data layers together with relevant trade and climate change data Improve sustainable short-term rotation management schemes for woody biomass production. Develop flexible planning and decision support tools for obtaining sustainable wood supply from multipurpose forest landscapes. Monitor emotional and fact-based societal perceptions of forest management practices, reused and recycled wood-based products, bio- and nanotechnology and its derived products. Develop efficient technology for harvesting, extraction, processing and sorting terrain transportation to road side, including new ICT-systems, novel forest machine felling head measurement technology and models for processing characterisation, semi- and full automation support for increased harvesting and log processing efficiency. Develop efficient technology for low soil impact, minimize rutting and increase accessibility to wood resources where soil bearing capacity is limited. Required Research and Innovation Actions by 2050 Complete modern database and economic assessment of primary and secondary resources across the EU PRIORITY 2: Resource efficient processing, refining and converting of raw materials Activities to foster resource efficiency in processing, refining and converting of primary and secondary raw materials have resulted in a continued relative reduction in energy and water use and material input in the European raw material industries per tonne of material produced. However, the deployment of new technologies with in-built artificial intelligence and the big data will not only contribute to a more resource efficient production but allow for adjusting raw material input to a new era of customised manufacturing imposed by conscious customers and shifting market demands. Meanwhile, the circular economy will open up new business models for production side streams that become valuable raw materials for new products and reuse, paving the way for integrated industrial symbiosis that benefit from old and new value chains.
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