OptiForValue M14 Consortium Meeting Highlights Video
This video provides highlights from the OptiForValue Consortium Meeting 2025, hosted by Forestry and Wood Technology at Linnaeus University (Skog och trä vid Linnéuniversitetet). The event took place in Växjö, Sweden.
We spent three inspiring days packed with presentations, brainstorming sessions, networking sessions, and a much-anticipated field visit to the Attsjö super test site with our incredible project partners. Together, we reflected on achievements from the first year and mapped out the next steps in our collaborative 4-year journey to optimise forest operations for sustainable management and high-value applications.
With energy, enthusiasm, and meaningful discussions, we strengthened teamwork to drive innovations that support the Circular Bio-based Europe call for optimised forest-based value chains for high-value applications and improved forest management!
Special thanks to the entire hosting team at Linnaeus University and to our coordinators at Luke for organising this event. Many thanks to all the presenters, participants, and not least the fantastic catering staff who kept us energised throughout—especially with that delicious hot stew in the woods! A big thank you also to the Linnaeus University team for creating this video of highlights.
The overall goal of the OptiForValue project is to enhance the value addition, competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of European forest-based value chains, particularly in regions already or forecast to be impacted by climate change over the coming decades.
OptiForValue is a Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) project (2024-2028) led by Luke (Natural Resources Institute Finland) with 17 partners from across 7 European countries (including Linnaeus University (LNU), Institute of Forestry Sciences ICIFOR-INIA CSIC, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), EY Denkstatt, ERINN Innovation, BOKU, Wood K plus, Cesefor, Skogforsk, Creative Optimization, University of Helsinki, Technical University of Munich, Ponsse, Finnos, Arbonaut, and Metsäteho). To find out more please visit the OptiForValue project website https://optiforvalue.eu/. This video was developed by consortium partners LNU.
The OptiForValue project is supported by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking and its members under Grant Agreement N° 101157658. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CBE JU. Neither the European Union nor the CBE JU can be held responsible for them.
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