On 14 June 2006 in the neighbourhood of Gemona (Friuli V.G.), all partners were present on a workshop of the sub-project BRIE.
The Czech republic was represented by the Project manager and his assistant. With regard to the fact that a working programme had been laid out into one day only, the working tempo was very high. During the workshop held in Osoppo were present, in addition to the partners and invited experts, also the interested Italian farmers and representatives of the Municipalities. Obviously, the most important was a visit of the experimental fields on which the Italian colleagues cultivate various clones of poplar and willow destined to the agro-energy production (short rotation forestry).
In addition to this excursion to the fields guided by the Italian expert in a sector of genetic and cultivation of these species, Mr. Franco Alasia, from C.N.E.R, we had participated also in a small workshop dedicated to the problematic of cultivation, transformation and energy utilization of these arboreal plants.
In the afternoon, we moved to near Tarcento, where a meeting of the Steering Committee and Technical Committee was held. During this meeting we were mainly assessing a progress of the sub-project up to now, problems and tasks to be realized in the second semester 2006. A series of duties and tasks to be carried out in a short time and in the best way by the Czech partners, had emerged from this meeting. An important task for us will be the Steering Committee meeting and workshop that we are going to organize in autumn in the Czech republic.
The biggest contribution for the Czech partner was the experimental fields visit and a consultancy with the main geneticist, specialist on the arboreal plants. Regarding a state and situation of the sub-project, we agreed with the lead partner of BRIE on the extra visit and meeting with Umbrian experts in order to get to know a method and techniques of the Italian partners.

(Translated by Sharon Cervenkova)

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Project partner´s

Steering Committee and Technical Committee

Experimental fields of poplar in Osoppo