30.6.2003. The final seminar of COST Action E19 will be held
in Vienna, Austria, in 15-16 September 2003. See the short information
brochure, the detailed
programme and a map of BOKU. Deadline
for registration is 31. July 2003.
If you need further information contact Mr. Johannes
Voitleithner.
6.5.2003. Unlike the advance notice from the COST secretariat,
it has approved the final seminar of COST E19 to be arranged in
Vienna, September 15-16, 2003. The seminar will take place in
the premises of the "Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur (BOKU")
- University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences. The
final invitation including the registration form will be sent
out at the end of June. The preliminary
programme.
24.3.2003. The planned final seminar in Vienna, September 2003,
has been cancelled due to budget cuts in the context of the reorganization
of COST within the Sixth Framework Programme.
20.12.2002. The draft of the Interim
Report on COST Action E19 "National Forest Programmes in a
European Context" are invited to comment by mid- January 2003
at the latest via email to Peter Glück peter.glueck@boku.ac.at
20.9.2002. The Porto meeting in spring 2003 is cancelled due
to budget cut of COST. The next meeting will be in Vienna, in
2003. The date will be announced later on.
18.5.2002 Due to the unforeseen severe limitations of COST funds
the planned Porto meeting in autumn has to be postponed to spring
2003. The WG2 meeting will be in Sopron in June 28-29, 2002. If
you need further information on Sopron meeting, please, contact
local organiser Attila
Lengyel or WG2 Chair Americo
Mendes.
25.1.2002. The fifth meeting of COST Action E19 will be held
in Savonlinna, Finland, April 4–6, 2002. The meeting begins with
the international conference on the topic Cross-
sectoral Policy Impacts on Forests. European Forest Institute
(EFI) is the local organiser and accepts registrations.
The deadline for registrations is March 1, 2002.
5.10.2001. Due to harmful overlap, the date of the fifth meeting
of the Action in Savonlinna, Finland has been changed. The new
date is April 4-6, 2002. Please, update your diary accordingly.
24.9.2001 Dr. Ine Neven from Netherlands was elected as Chairperson
of the Working Group 1 in the 4th meeting of Action in Oslo, Norway,
on 20-22 September, 2001.
20.6.2001 Due to personal reasons professor Heiner Schanz has
resigned as the leader of Working Group 1 in the COST Action E19.
Heikki Pajuoja is acting as interim chair until the new chair
will be elected in the next meeting in Oslo Norway, 13-15 September
2001.
30.5.2001 Frank Hoffman's and Bernd Markus Liss's research
paper on the analysis & assessment of the German NFP process
presented in the Aberdeen meeting in March 29th - 31st 2001.
14.5.2001 Professor Americo M.S.Carvalho Mendes from Portugal
was elected as Chairperson of the Working Group 2 in the 3rd meeting
of Action in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 30-31 March, 2001.
14.5.2001 The following International Conference might be of
interest for COST E19 members, in particular for those of Working
Group 2: Financial
Instruments of Forest Policy, 17-20 June 2001 Rovaniemi, Finland.
6.12.2000
Due to personal reasons professor Willi Zimmermann has resigned
as the leader of Working Group 2 in the COST Action E19. Peter
Glück is acting as interim chair until the new chair will be elected
in the next meeting in Aberdeen Scotland, 28-30 March 2001.
5.12.2000
A Call for Papers - Special Issue of Forest
Policy and Economics Dedicated to COST Action E19
20.3.2000
The Work Plan (1999-2003) for the Action
was approved in the 2nd Management Committee meeting in Freiburg,
on 20-21 March, 2000.
20.3.2000
Dr. Heikki Pajuoja from Finland was elected as Vice-chairperson
of the Action in the 2nd Management Committee meeting in Freiburg,
on 20-21 March, 2000. Dr. Pajuoja is the head of the Vantaa
Research Center at the Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla).
27.11.1999
The Steering Committee had its first meeting.
The Final Draft Work Plan for the Action was prepared to be approved
in the next MC meeting 21 March, 2000.
20.11.1999
1st Call for proposals for Short-Term Scientific Missions was
opened. It ends by 15 March, 2000.
18.10.1999
Professor Peter Glück from Austria was elected as Chairperson
of the Action in the 1st Management Committee
meeting 18-19 Oct, 1999. Professor Glück
is the head the Institute of Forest Sector Policy and Economics.
