• Lead partner: National research institut of science and technology for environment and agriculture, Grenoble regional center, Mountain Ecosystem Research Unit (FR) Contact person: Frédéric Berger, Tel.: + 33 4 76 76 28 00, frederic.berger[at]irstea.fr
• Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Department of Natural Hazards and Alpine Timberline (AT) Contact person: Karl Kleemayr, Tel.: +43 (0) 512 573933 5100, Karl.Kleemayr[at]uibk.ac.at
• TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (AT) Contact person: Markus Hollaus, Tel.: +43-1-58801-12239, mh[at]ipf.tuwien.ac.at
• Office of the Tyrolean Regional Government - Tyrolean Forest Service (AT) Contact person: Dieter Stöhr, Tel.: +43 (0)512 508 4501, dieter.stoehr[at]tirol.gv.at
• Stand Montafon - Forstfonds (AT) Contact person: Bernhard Maier, Tel.: +43 5556 72132 8, bernhard.maier[at]stand-montafon.at
• Bavarian Forest Institute - Department Forest Management (DE) Contact person: Dr. Franz Binder, Tel.: +49 8161 71-4566, franz.binder[at]lwf.bayern.de
• Technological institute for Forestry, Cellulose, Construction Timber and Furniture (FR) Contact person: Stéphane Grulois, Tel.: +33 4 76 15 40 70, stephane.grulois[at]fcba.fr
  • Departement of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciances (DISAFA) - University of Torino (IT) Contact person: Renzo Motta, Tel.: +39 011 670 5538, motta.renzo[at]unito.it
• Regional Agency for Development of Agriculture and Forestry (IT) Contact person: Bruna Comini, Tel.: +390267404479, bruna.comini[at]ersaf.lombardia.it
• Autonomous province of Trento : Forest and fauna department (IT) Contact person: Alessandro Wolynski, Tel.: + 39 0461 495987, alessandro.wolynski[at]provincia.tn.it
• Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (TeSAF) - Università degli Studi di Padova (IT) Contact person: Emanuele Lingua, Tel.: +39 049 827 2711, emanuele.lingua[at]unipd.it
• Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) (SI) Contact person: Nike Krajnc, Tel.: +386 (0)1 200 78 17,nike.krajnc[at]gozdis.si
• Slovenia Forest Service (SI) Contact person: Andrej Breznikar, Tel.: +386 (0)1 470-00-50, Andrej.Breznikar[at]zgs.gov.si

“The role played by mountain forests is extremely varied. Their contributions to the stability and overall development of life and economic factors in mountainous regions are highly significant. Due mainly to topographic conditions, managing mountain forests is significantly more cost intensive than in plain ones. A good knowledge of forest biomass location, characteristics, mobilization conditions and connectivity to wood industry is a prerequisite for the development of a sustainable timber supply chain in mountain territories. This knowledge is currently insufficient to provide at reasonable costs, the required guarantees on the wood supply and on its sustainability. Based on the use of new technologies for forest and topography characterization, NEWFOR is dedicated to enhance and develop tools and adapted policies for decision making in the field of a sustainable and adaptive mountain forest resources management facing the sustainability of mountain forest ecosystems services.”
Source: NEWFOR project summary

• Competition between global and regional economic cycles

• natural resource management
• accessibility
• connectivity
• territorial development

• Reducing environmental damage

Results of a project can be differentiated in outputs, outcomes and impacts of an intervention.OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. Project outputs can generally be identified very easily. Yet, they represent only a first step towards the ultimate objective of project interventions: Initiating project-related outcomes and having true impacts on the ground.

Outputs are an immediate deliverable of a project, which result from a development intervention. They should be finalised and publicly available by the time the project terminates. Outputs comprise tangible project results such as tools, databases, executive summaries, educational material etc.

Outcomes are the likely or achieved short-term and medium-term effects of an intervention's outputs, e.g. the outcome of improved, knowledged-based decision-making processes as an effect of a knowledge database (= output) established by a project. Outcomes will in most cases not materialise before project closure.
Impacts are positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects produced by a development intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended.OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management
As outcomes and impacts are difficult to differentiate, this section contains both of these types of project results.
The identification of outcomes and impacts requires a deeper insight into the respective project e.g. through project participants or direct interviews with project representatives. Outcomes and impacts are usually not solely influenced by projects, but are a complex combination of project results on the one hand and framework conditions on the other. Unlike project outputs, outcomes and results cannot be described in a standardised way. Therefore, they are listed as free text:
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• Newfor official website of the project
• Newfor outputs on the website of the Alpine Space Programme