Business Meeting Agenda

17th of September

14:30 Registration desk: organisers will collect participants' arrivals, deliver meeting materials and solve last payments. 

15.00 Welcoming by Giuseppe Scarascia, CNR-IBAF

Chairman: Yves Birot

Session I: Reporting of main activities and projects 2008-2009

15.10-15.45 EFIMED in progress by Yves Birot, EFIMED AG Chairman.
15.45-16.20 EFIMED Activities 2008-09 by Marc Palahí, EFIMED Head of Office and Elena Górriz, EFIMED Research Support Team.
16.20-16.30 Discussion

16.30-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-17.15 Valuing and internalising non-market forest services by Robert Mavsar, EFIMED.

17.15-17.30 Discussion paper on Living with wildfires: what science can tell us? by Yves Birot.
17.30-17.45 Water and Forests: a convenient truth? by Carlos Gracia, CREAF

17.45-17.55 Discussion

Session II: New EFIMED initiatives

17.55-18.25 Studying the profitability of Mediterranean forests by Davide Pettenella, University of Padova.

18.25-18.35 Discussion

Session III: Other questions

18.35-18.45 Experiences from creating an international M.Sc. programme by Tomi Tuomasjukka, FOPER Coordinator.
18.45-18:55 Forest certification in Mediterranean environments: a state of the art by Antonio Brunori, PEFC Italy.
18:55-19:05 EFI Memberships by Anu Ruusila, EFI Communication Manager.
19:05-19:15 EFIMED meeting 2009 by Mohamed Sabir, ENFI Director, Morocco.

19:30-21.00 Cocktail dinner offered by EFIMED