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GATE – Gaining Added value forTimber in Europe
• Interreg IIIC programme• Network project• 5 Partner Regions:
Wales Estonia Slovenia Thuringia (Germany) Pomorskie (Poland)
• Wales is the lead partner• 3 year duration (October 2004-December 2007)
Environment Centre forTrade, RudolstadtUlf-Dieter [email protected]
Tartu Science ParkSiiri [email protected]
Tourist Association ofCommunities ‘BOR’,PomorskieHania [email protected]
Dept. of Wood Science,Ljubljiana UniversityMilan [email protected]
Forestry CommissionWales, AberystwythMike [email protected]
Project Aims• To increase the use of timber in construction
• Building new markets and adding value
• Sharing best practice amongst 5 regions
• Overcome any existing barriers or constraints
How does GATE work?Exchange of experience and best practicethrough:
• Inter-Regional Seminars every 6 months• Focus Group meetings before each Seminar• Exchange visits for stakeholders• GATE funded local events in each region• Email & Website at www.gate-project.org
Regional Stakeholder Networks ‘Anyone with an interest in or influence on the
choice of timber for a building project’
• local & regional government• planners, policy makers• engineers & builders, supply chain businesses• industry bodies, foresters• designers, architects and builders• housing associations, mortgage lenders, insurers• clients …
Bringing the rightpeople together fromthe partner regions atconferences and sitevisits
Giving stakeholders theopportunity to ‘see forthemselves’ what’shappening in the industryacross Europe
Opportunities toparticipate in inter-regional workshops
The opportunity to seeglulam manufactureand it’s use inconstruction
Plywood manufacturein Estonia
Learning about differentmethods of timberframe manufactureacross Europe
Looking at timberhousing across Europe
Seeing how traditionaluses of timber hasshaped the industries inother regions
Learning new methodsof using timber inmodern and innovativebuildings
Seeing how regionshave used timber increative and moderndesigns
Seeing how timber isbeing used to extendand renovate buildings
Seeing how designelements contribute todurability
Looking at how otherregions have treatedtheir timber structures
Visits to forests to seethe connectionsbetween forestmanagement andregional forest industries
Student Designcompetitions for thenext generation ofarchitects
Seeing the results ofGATE sponsoredworkshops
Making the most of themedia at TV interviewsand press conferencesto raise awareness
Gaining publicity andspreading the messageat local events in eachregion
Meeting andinfluencing politicians
What’s Next for GATE• Handover events in each Partner Region• Closing International Conference in Cardiff• Further local activities in each region• Stakeholder directory published on website• Future maintenance of the website• Stakeholder networks continue after project closure
What’s Next for Wales?• Project closes on 31st December 2007• Handover Workshop for the timber sector in Wales
in Newtown on 14th September• Work taken forward by the Wales Forest Business
Partnership via Wood Knowledge Wales• Investigate the possibilities of further European co-
operation via Interreg IVC and other EU fundingstreams