OptiForValue Project Video

This video introduces the OptiForValue project, whose mission is to optimise forest operations for sustainable forest management and high-value applications. Told from the perspective of the forests and forest-based value chains, it highlights the project’s goals, innovative approach and potential solutions for a greener future.

The video highlights the crucial role forests play in climate resilience and in supplying wood and other forest products—such as paper, packaging, and engineered/structural wood—thereby reducing dependence on non-renewable, unsustainable resources and supporting the circular bioeconomy. However, Europe’s forests and their value chains face diverse challenges, including increasing global wood demand, biodiversity loss, and increasing threats to forest health and economic revenue caused by climate change. The video showcases how 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.

The video was developed by ERINN Innovation, consortium partners (Luke (Natural Resources Institute Finland), 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) and Footprint TV (with voice over by Jenny Fennessy).

Stats for damage to trees source https://doi.org/10.36333/pb4 Significant increase in forest disturbances since 1950s. Policy Brief 4. 07.03.2023 M. Patacca, M. Lindner, G-J. Nabuurs, M-J. Schelhaas