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12.00	Registration opens
13.00	Opening session
	Welcome	Bo Borgström
	Opening adress	Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden
13.40	The Forest-based Sector Technology Platform (FTP)
	The opportunities offered by the FTP	Björn Hägglund, Chairman of the FTP High-level group
	The FTP Strategic Research Agenda	Claes-Göran Beckeman, Project director, FTP
14.15	Current challenges for the EU forest-based industries	Pedro Ortún, European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry
14.30	Break
15.00	Supporting and ongoing activities - research networks and projects
	Overview of structures, resources and on-going activities(An unabridged version of the same paper, approx. 2.4 MBytes)	Lennart Eriksson, STFI-Packforsk, Stockholm
	The proposed EU Integrated Project "Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain"	Kaj Rosén, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden
	The COST-action "Forests for Recreation and Nature Tourism"	Simon Bell, Edinburgh College of Art
	The EU Integrated Project "New and innovative processes for radical changes of the European pulp and paper industry"	Catharina Ottestam, STFI-Packforsk, Stockholm
	The EU CRAFT project "Innovation for beech" and a research database for wood-based materials	José Vicente Oliver, the Wood, Furniture and Packaging Technology Institute, Spain (AIDIMA) and InnovaWood
	The EU Network of Excellence "Bio-energy"	Kai Sipilä, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
16.30	Innovation systems to improve the European forest-based sector
	Industrial transformation: R&D and Technology as drivers for innovation	Christos Tokamanis, European Commission, DG Research
	Discussion, with contributions from:	Bo Borgström, Chairman of Cei-Bois
		Alfred Heinzel, Heinzel Holding GmbH, Austria
		Karin Markides, Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
		Ewald Rametsteiner, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
17.50	A Video Message (an mpeg-1 video file, 28.3 MegaByte=some 2 hours download over 56kbps line)	Janez Potočnik, Commissioner, European Commission, Science and Research
17.55	Concluding remarks	Bo Borgström
18.00-	Buffet dinner
20.00

08.00	Registration opens, coffee
08.30	The knowledge-based bioeconomy and the forest-based sector	Christian Patermann, European Commission, DG Research
08.50	Visionary views from emerging sciences	Session moderator: Yves Birot, Chairman of the FTP Scientific Council
	A DNA-based approach for integrated management of forest resources	Remy Petit, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Bordeaux
	Paper as a tool for thinking	Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University, Sweden
	A nanotechnology roadmap for the forest products industry	Tommy Iversen, STFI-Packforsk, Stockholm
10.00	Break
10.30	Research to identify the contribution of the forest-based sector for the sustainable development strategy	Andrea Tilche, European Commission, DG Research
10.45	Energy from biomass - European Commission research perspective	Maria Fernandez, European Commission, DG Research
11.00	The FTP Strategic Research Agenda (SRA)	Session moderator: Claes-Göran Beckeman
	Presentations by the FTP value-chain working group leaders:
	Forestry	Risto Päivinen, European Forest Institute (EFI)
	Pulp and paper products	Ilkka Kartovaara, Stora Enso Oy
	Wood products	Helmuth Neuner, Benediktinerstift Admont, Austria
	Bioenergy	Kai Sipilä, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
	Specialties/New businesses	Haio Harms, Lenzing AG, Austria
	Presentation by the IT Taskforce leader:
	IT for the forest-based sector	Risto Ritala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Parallel workshops on the FTP Strategic Research Agenda
	Forestry
	Pulp and paper products
	Wood products
	Bioenergy
	Specialties/New businesses
15.00	Summary of workshops and next steps in the FTP development
	Brief summary of workshops	Lisa Sennerby Forsse
	What happens next with the FTP	Claes-Göran Beckeman
15.30	Forest-based Sector Research under the Austrian presidency	Johannes Schima, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria
15.45	End of conference