The Technical School of Building Engineering of the University of Granada and the LIFE Wood for the Future project have hosted during the 25th and 26th of March 40 students of Maderaula, a classroom of theoretical and practical training in wood construction and near-zero energy consumption. The Maderaula project of the CESEFOR Foundation of Castilla y León and funded by the Green Employment program of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, travels to different locations in Spain and aims to train employees in the light-frame construction system to achieve an energy efficient and industrialized construction.
LIFE Wood for Future was selected by the Polish LIFE National Contact Point within the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management to be presented at the online event dedicated to LIFE projects on CLIMATE.
The ETS of the School of Building Engineering hosted yesterday afternoon, March 15, the third working meeting for the constitution of the group, organized by COSE and the UGR, which was attended by about 40 poplar grove owners in the province. During the meeting, the Communication Company Jasten Fröjen, specialist in the forestry sector, by means of a participatory strategy, collected first-hand all the information from the attending owners about their feelings and expectations regarding poplar plantations and timber.
On March 11, 2022, members of the LIFE Wood for Future team presented the project first hand to the Delegate for Sustainable Development in Granada, Mr. Manuel Francisco García Delgado. Marcos Moleón and Antolino Gallego, researchers from the UGR, together with Francisco B. Navarro, IFAPA researcher, explained in detail the different actions of the project, both in environmental matters and in terms of actions for the implementation of a bioeconomic ecosystem that contributes to the sustainable development of the Vega de Granada and other regions of Granada and Andalucía.
Under the memory of the first poplar sawmill of the "Rey del Chopo" located in the Old Factory of San Juan (Old sawmill of the "Rey del Chopo") in Las Huertas Bajas, in Santa Fe, this historic place of the Vega began a second life yesterday as it witnessed the inauguration ceremony of the demonstration plots of the LIFE Wood for Future project. Its owner, María del Carmen Jiménez Barrionuevo, "Marita", kindly offered her farm to celebrate this intimate and historic event.
As a replicability activity of the project in other regions, today, March 9, 2022, the LIFE Wood for Future project was presented in the region of Guadix, with the collaboration of the Rural Development Group of the region and the irrigation communities.
USC-PEMADE and UGR organize the second edition of the CEM course at the ETS of Efication Engineering of the UGR.
The AguaGranada Foundation will be the first sponsor of dissemination activities of the LIFE Wood for Future project. AguaGranada is a non-profit organization established in 2007 by the company EMASAGRA, with general interest purposes such as the preservation of the environment, the rational use of natural resources, mainly water, and the defense of nature, promoting sustainable development.
Poplar trees absorb a large amount of polluting gases from traffic, so their cultivation is a quick, effective and complementary measure to the promotion of public transport. The European project for the recovery of poplar groves in the Vega wants to present its proposals to the working group formed by the state, regional, provincial and local administrations.
The ETS de Ingeniería de Edificación (building engineering department) of the University of Granada hosted the second meeting of poplar owners of the province of Granada for the creation of the Agrupación de Ecoproductores de Chopo de la provincia, coordinated by Patricia Gómez of COSE and Eduardo Montero of the Asociación Forestal de Navarra.
