With the sponsorship of the Cívitas-UGR Chair of Sustainability, Innovation and Development and the College of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of Granada, the second edition of the Diploma in Calculation of Wood Structures Applied to Projects, organized within the framework of the LIFE Wood for Future project under the umbrella of the International Graduate School and the School of Building Engineering of the University of Granada, was successfully completed this April.

The LIFE Wood for the Future project has participated today in the round table "Trees, water and wood: A triangle for sustainability" within the Sustainability Fair 2023 held in Granada between 30 and 31 March. The fair was organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Granada with the sponsorship of the Junta de Andalucía and the collaboration of various entities such as the Diputación de Granada, the University of Granada and the La Huella Verde movement.

Here you can listen to the interview to the Composer José López Montes, Professor of the Conservatory of Music of Granada, and to the professor of the Dept. of Painting of the UGR, Consuelo Vallejo, about the Photographic Exhibition on the poplar groves in the Aljibe del Rey (Granada). Photography and soundscape united hand in hand.

Download the video of the launching of the LIFE Wood for Futuro project presented on March 17, 2023 at the Carmen de la Victoria of the University of Granada.

Just over a year ago 430 poplars were planted in "La Nocla", only a month and a half after the farm had been ceded by the City Council of Granada to Salvemos la Vega-Vega Educa, as a demonstration plot of the project "LIFE Wood For Future", led by the UGR and in which we actively participated since its gestation.

Last Saturday, March 11, ended one of the most representative demonstration plantations of the LIFE Wood for the Future project implemented within the COSE actions. Specifically, the plantation of the family of architects De la Torre-Castellano, located in the upper valley of the Genil River.

Members of the LIFE Wood for Future team have participated today in a day of field practices on timber harvesting with students of the higher level training cycle "Higher Technician in Forestry and Natural Environment Management" of the Center for Forestry Training and Experimentation of Cazorla, located in Vadillo-Castril within the Natural Park of the Sierra de Cazorla Segura and Las Villas and managed by the Junta de Andalucía.

Businesswoman and nature lover, Victoria Carreras presides over the Marjal producers' group, with a triple environmental, social and economic objective. The economist Victoria Carreras (Granada, 1968) is the founder of the ANDA Cowork space, but for the last three years she has been combining this activity with the management of poplar cultivation in the meadows of her family's farm.

Before ninety attendees, the Teatro de la Merced in Cazorla, hosted on March 3 a conference on the opportunity of wood and forestry in the construction sector, which aims to give economic value to the forest under a sustainable use and fight against the unstoppable depopulation in the area and promote prevention against major fires. Organized by AFA-Profor and LIFE Wood for Future, the event was inaugurated by the Mayor of Cazorla, as a beautiful host city of the event, the Deputy of Infrastructures of the Provincial Council of Jaén, the territorial Delegate of the Ministry of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy and the Director General of Forestry Policy of the Junta de Andalucía.

The Consejería de Fomento, Articulación del Territorio y Vivienda de la Junta de Andalucía promotes through AVRA (Agencia de la Vivienda y Rehabilitación de Andalucía) the construction of a pilot demonstration building of the mixed wood-concrete prefabricated product, MCLamBS, developed in the LIFE Wood for Future project.

On March 17, Francisco Rescalvo, PhD of the University of Granada, presented at the Cosecha Sannas event the spinoff strategy to launch from the LIFE Wood for Future project an industrial ecosystem based on local wood from Andalusia.

After 18 months of work, the LIFE Wood for Future project has exceeded 4,000 attendees at project events and 300 news items in the written or digital press. The poplar, the tree of the people, was also the protagonist in the Inaugural Lecture of the Academic Year at the University of Granada in September 2022.