On September 7 and 8, the Pablo Olavide University organized an interesting conference on the Andalusian Wood Quality Plan, which brought together more than 130 people from the different links in the value chain.

The fifth edition of the LIFE Wood For Future Newsletter is now available, where you can consult the latest news of the project.

On June 12, 2023, the Governing Council of the Regional Government of Andalusia took cognizance of the "Program to Promote Timber Harvesting in Andalusia", promoted by the Directorate General of Forestry Policy and Biodiversity, which is a milestone in democratic history in terms of change in the policy of Andalusian forest management.

GRANADA, APRIL 20, 2023. The Governing Council of the Junta de Andalucía has approved the implementation of the value chain plan CRECE Wood and Furniture Industry, aimed at "making efficient and sustainable use of natural resources and Andalusian knowledge for the use of wood in the manufacture of furniture and in the construction and renovation of buildings".

On March 21, 2023, the College of Architects of Granada hosted an interesting conference entitled "Nature as a transforming element of cities", organized by the architect Ana Carvajal, committed to building with wood through the companies Arquigreen and Arquima. Before a large number of local architects, the professor of Physics Applied to Construction, Antolino Gallego, presented the general ideas of the LIFE Wood for Future project and the benefits of mixed poplar-pine and wood-concrete structural products for long-span and high-rise construction.

In collaboration with the LIFE Wood for Future project and Iberolam Timber&Technology, spinoff of the University of Granada, in April 2023 the company CADWORK gave in the ETS of Building Engineering of the UGR, the first training course at Andalusian level in design, manufacture and assembly of wooden structures, under the baton of Cadwork engineer Adrián Eiras Abeledo.

The Aljibe del Rey, exhibition space of the AguaGranada Foundation in the Albaicín, hosts from today the exhibition 'Poplar trees of Granada', which brings together a selection of 26 photographs of the 194 that participated in the contest organized by the LIFE Wood for Future project, the Association of Producers Marjal Chopo and the University of Granada. The aim of the contest was to highlight the environmental and cultural benefits of poplar trees, a historical crop in the province.

About twenty professors, researchers and experts in different areas of knowledge have met this morning at the Carmen de la Victoria of the University of Granada to claim the environmental and cultural values of poplar trees, an agroforestry crop deeply rooted in the province that lives a hopeful stage with the boost to sustainable construction with poplar wood by the European project LIFE Wood for Future/Madera para el Futuro.

Last May 2023 the City Council of Santa Fe, Granada, unanimously approved by all political groups to make available the municipally owned sugar mill of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, as a space for the location of a possible factory of poplar and pine structural wood laminates arising from the LIFE Wood for Future project.

The Department of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy of the Regional Government of Andalusia has recently approved a forest management model for poplar groves that will simplify the planning and daily management of these forestry crops, at a time of growing interest in poplar wood and its new uses for sustainable construction.

The energy company BayWar.e. and LIFE Wood forFuture have held a meeting sponsored by the Delegation of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Andalusian Government in Granada to discuss possible ways of collaboration in sponsorship. The meeting was also attended by the City Council of Alhendín, where the company is planning the installation of a solar plant, and the head of sponsorship of the UGR.

At the initiative of the LIFE Wood for Future project, on March 14, 2023, the Wood Multisectoral Roundtable was constituted in Granada at the Delegation of the Andalusian Regional Government in Granada. Chaired by the Delegate of the Junta, Antonio Granados, the table has the participation of the Delegates of Environment, Agriculture, Industry and Finance, Universities and Innovation, Employment and Housing.