Besides scientific activities described in the workpackages, scientific animation will consist in:
A kick-off meeting, which took place in Montpellier, 3-6 February 2009.
Three workshops, hold at the end of 2009, 2010 and 2011, in order to plan activities, share results and analyses, and agree on methodologies.
A regional workshop, gathering researchers involved in CoForChange and several categories of stakeholders (forest administrations
, research institutes
, universities and forest schools
, private sector
, civil and conservation NGO
s ), which took place in Brazzaville, 21-23 may 2012. It will aim at disseminating project results and discussing the most useful tools to be provided to decision makers at the end of the project.
An international conference
, to take place in Montpellier, France, at the end of 2012, to share CoForChange results with the international scientific community. EU decision makers will be invited – a session will be dedicated to management and policy implications.