On 7 June 2022, the Board of Directors of the poplar producers' association of Granada MARJAL, promoted by COSE in the framework of the LIFE Wood for Future project, was formally presented to the Delegate of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Andalusian Regional Government in Granada, María José Martín Gómez, and her technical team.
As part of the replicability and transfer of results at the level of demonstration plantations, several owners met yesterday with the owners of Agrícola Genil in Écija for a field day in the poplar plantations along the Genil river in this Sevillian town.
On May 25, 2022, Professors Manuel Guaita and Antolino Gallego, from the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Granada, respectively, visited the prestressed concrete factory of Grupo Rodiñas located in Curtis.
One of its first initiatives will be to request the Junta de Andalucía to include this crop among the beneficiaries of aid from the CAP of the European Union. Victoria Carreras will be the president of the group, the first in Spain to bring together poplar wood producers, and Javier de Teresa, its honorary president. The poplar producers adopt as their trademark the Nazarí word marjal, which is still used in agricultural activity in the province.
The LIFE Wood for Future project has participated on April 29 in the conference on best practices in circular economy in the construction sector organized by the City Council of Granada through the European project URBACT URGE, in the Official College of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of Granada.
The commitment to industrialized construction with poplar wood would contribute to decarbonization and stable and qualified employment. The coordinator of the project, Antolino Gallego, emphasizes that it fits into the green revolution of the Strategic Alliance for Recovery, the so-called Martyrs' Pact.
On April 22, 2022, the CajaGranada Cultural Center hosted the presentation of the Friends of the Vega Awards 2022, awards that recognize the best practices in the care of the Vega Granadina.
Dozens of volunteers, from the municipalities crossed by the river and from other parts of the province, participate in the bird counts. The program will provide regular data that will help to evaluate the evolution of the conservation status of the Dílar river over the next few years.
On April 18, the Municipal Theater of Purullena, in the Guadix region, hosted the fourth meeting for the constitution of the Granada Poplar Growers' Association.
The Provincial Council of Granada, Vega Educa and LIFE Madera para el Futuro organize these visits, in which students of 3rd of ESO learn how to plant cuttings.
Businessmen, builders, specifiers and representatives of the administration have visited the technology center of the University of Santiago, two structural timber factories and the innovative Impulso Verde building in Lugo. LIFE Wood for the Future aims to promote in Andalusia, from poplar wood, a sector that in Galicia has an annual turnover of almost 2,000 million Euros, exports 700 million Euros and employs 18,000 people in more than 3,000 companies.
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.
