Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

Programme 2014 - 2020 Hungary - Slovakia - Romania - Ukraine ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2022-02-04

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Description (EN):

Climate change is an imminent problem influencing the future development of forests in Europe, negatively affecting tree growth, regeneration and causing tree mortality in the Carpathian region. Improving the capacity to adapt to climate change is on the agenda of the EU and Ukraine. These common challenges need to be jointly addressed through targeted adaptation measures. “Roads to healthy forests” main objective is to increase stability and adaptability of Carpathian forest ecosystems to climate change impacts in SK-UA cross border region. Project’s approach is to transform the damaged forests to more sustainable multispecies forests and species able to adapt to changing climate, and support natural regeneration. To reach the objective and make a change, the project will: - Improve accessibility of affected forest areas by re/constructing 18.9km and maintaining 45 km of forest roads, setting 84m riverbank protection, water polder of 50000 m3, 11 wooden cascades in Presov, Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. - Restore climate affected forests by growing 100.000 resilient seedlings a year in a newly established tree nursery (UA) at 1.9 ha. - Reforestate and protect young trees on the area of 1224 ha. - Increase professional knowledge of forestes and nature protection specialists on issues of climate-resilient and adaptive forestry. Forest practitioners (at least 85 pers) will benefit from 10 capacity building events, incl. at 2 demonstration sites and in the newly set-up Demonstration and Education Center “Forest and Climate” (UA). Building of Center “Forest and Climate” is an innovation in itself – made of wood, it will reduce GHG emission by using CO2 neutral construction materials which has a cross-border environmental effect. The nursery is innovative for the Carpathian region of UA in a way that it will produce quality forest reproductive material from native resilient species allowing planting during a longer vegetation period, will produce as much as 100.000 of oak and beech seedlings. A peer-to-peer intersectoral approach enables forest enterprises on the same level (Spisska Bela, Kezmarok, Vygoda, Uzhhorod) exchange experiences. Partnership is strengthened with a nature park TANAP and support organization FORZA to learn from each other and disseminate the knowledge further. All activities of the “Roads to healthy forests” have a cross-border character, the most prominent being changes that will occur in “adaptive thinking” among UA-SK forestry community. The long-term cross-border impact pertains to reducing regional disparities between EU and non-EU countries.

Website: https://uzh-lishosp.com.ua/

Expected Results (EN):

1. To improve accessibility of forest areas affected by climate change impacts. 2. To increase resilience and adaptability of forest ecosystems by transformation of damaged forests to more sustainable, uneven-age and multi-species stands. 3. To enhance professional capacity of foresters and raise public awareness on forests and climate change impacts. The specific objective of the Project contributes to the overall objective by establishing the necessary conditions for forest practitioners in the SK-UA cross-border region to develop and implement practices for improving of physical and natural stability of forests by means of formation of close to natural forest stands, featured by uneven-age and multi-species structure adapted or adaptive to the climate changes. It is proposed to do this through: - Improvement of the forest infrastructure - Fostering the implementation of resilience management by implementation of interventions in different project sites, and - Triggering the “adaptive thinking” by establishing sustainable capacity building and knowledge exchange mechanisms at the inter-institutional level among partners and stakeholders, so that climate change considerations are built right into the decision-making process.

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Agriculture and fisheries and forestry Climate change and biodiversity

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Uzhhorod Forest Enterprise

Address: 42, Pershotravneva str., 89411 Kamyanytsya, Ukraine

Legal status: public

Website: https://uzh-lishosp.com.ua/

Total budget: EUR 577 384.79

ENI budget: EUR 519 646.31

Vyhoda Forest Enterprise

Name: Vyhoda Forest Enterprise

Address: Danyla Halytskoho street 40Vyhoda, Ukraine

Legal status: public

Website: http://vygodalis.com.ua/

Total budget: EUR 1 076 287.78

ENI budget: EUR 968 659.00

State Forest of Tatra National Park

Name: State Forest of Tatra National Park

Address: Tatranská Lomnica 66, 5960 Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.lesytanap.sk/

Total budget: EUR 321 237.28

ENI budget: EUR 289 113.55

Spišská Belá Forests

Name: Spišská Belá Forests

Address: Továrenská 30, 5901 Spišská Belá, Slovakia

Legal status: public

Website: https://lesy.spisskabela.sk/

Total budget: EUR 687 650.78

ENI budget: EUR 618 885.70

Forests of Kežmarok

Name: Forests of Kežmarok

Address: Kežmarské Žľaby 12030, 5960 Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.lmksro.sk/

Total budget: EUR 411 405.53

ENI budget: EUR 370 264.97

Agency for Sustainable Development of Carpathian region “Forza”

Name: Agency for Sustainable Development of Carpathian region “Forza”

Address: Mynayska str. 27/39, 88000 Uzhhorod, Ukraine

Legal status: private

Website: http://forza.org.ua/

Total budget: EUR 449 904.00

ENI budget: EUR 404 913.59

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Vyhoda Forest Enterprise

Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

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Uzhhorod Forest Enterprise

Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

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State Forest of Tatra National Park

Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

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Spišská Belá Forests

Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

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Forests of Kežmarok

Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

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Agency for Sustainable Development of Carpathian region “Forza”

Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

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Summary

Project name (EN): Roads to Healthy Forests: Resilient, Adaptive, Diverse and Sustainable Forests in Cross-border Region of Ukraine and Slovakia

Project acronym: Roads to Healthy Forests

Project start date: 2019-12-16

Project end date: 2022-12-15

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 523 870.16

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 171 483.12

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 3 171 483.12.

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2014 - 2020 Hungary - Slovakia - Romania - Ukraine ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-03-08

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

78 / 78 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

268 / 268 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. One project (Zero Waste) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2023-03-07. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website ( https://huskroua-cbc.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-01.

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