Grants

Grants

Grants approved during the 1st and 2nd year of CLEANFOREST Cost Action (2022-2024)

Members of the Evaluation Committees

Yann Salmon

Yann Salmon

Grant Awarding Coordinator, MC Member
University of Helsinki
Finland
Finland
Mariangela Fotelli

Mariangela Fotelli

STSM Coordinator, MC Member
Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation Dimitra
Greece
Greece
Jaroslav Durkovic

Jaroslav Durkovic

ITC GC Coordinator, MC Member
Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry
Slovakia
Slovakia
Silvana Munzi

Silvana Munzi

Dissemination Grant Manager, DG Coordinator
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Portugal
Portugal
Klaudia Ziemblińska

Klaudia Ziemblińska

ITC CG Evaluation Committee Member, Young Researcher Coordinator, MC Member
Poznan University of Life Sciences
Poland
Poland
Kateřina Macháčová

Katerina Machacova

Science Communication Coordinator, ITC CG Evaluation Committee Member, MC Member
Global Change Research Institute, CAS
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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Tomislav Levanič

MC Member
Slovenian Forestry Institute
Slovenia
Slovenia

1st Call

01. Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)
No
Name
Affiliated country
Hosting country
Topic of STSM
1
Annita Zolles
Austria
Norway
Identification of key parameters affecting tree growth using high frequency growth data.
2
Sanne Verdonck
Belgium
Switzerland
Investigating the influence of forest management on the drought impact experienced by European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) through point dendrometers
3
Milena Lakićević
Serbia
Montenegro
Climate change effect on soil functioning in Montenegro
3
Caitlin Ruth Lewis
UK
Belgium
Assessing former land use as a driver of nitrate leaching in the ICP Level II European database
4
Negar Rezaie
Italy
Canada
Unravelling the phenological patterns of wood formation and allocation of coniferous and broadleaved species with dendrometer and xylogenesis data
5
Stavroula Zacharoudi
Greece
UK
Soil greenhouse gas assessment, analysis and training at a short rotation broadleaf site
02. ITC Conference Grants

No submissions.

0.3 Dissemination Grants
No
Name
Affiliated country
Conference title & venue
Title of the oral contribution
1
Silvana Munzi
Portugal
CAPER 2023, annual meeting of the Community of Air Pollution Effects Researchers
Metropolitan University, UK
CLEANFOREST COST Action, the new kid in town

2nd Call

01. Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)
No
Name
Affiliated country
Hosting country
Topic of STSM
1
Marilli Sell
Estonia
UK
Next generation manipulation experiments with concept creation
2
Saša Kostić
Serbia
Slovenia
Nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios in tree rings: a new driver of environmental pollutant reconstruction thought the time
3
Lucia Mondaneli
Italy
Switzerland
The functionality of trees inside and outside cities: human and climate effects on isotopes characterization in Pinus pinea
3
Giorgos Xanthopoulos
Greece
Germany
Assessing ecosystem carbon fluxes using the eddy covariance technique, combined with soil respiration measurements and in-growth coring.
02. ITC Conference Grants
No
Name
Affiliated country
Conference title & venue
Title of the oral contribution
1
Hacı Mehmet Güzey
Turkey
World Congress on Pollution Control, Antalya, Turkey
Neuro Sliding Mode Controller Development for River Pollution
03. Dissemination Grants

No submissions.

01. Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) - 1st and 2nd Call

WG-targeted STSMs
No
Name
Affiliated country
Hosting country
Topic of STSM
Host Institution & Scientist
1
Ivan Limić (WG1)
Croatia
Belgium
Study on the influence of pollen on nitrogen wet deposition
INBO (Host: Arne Verstraeten) and Ghent University (Host: Samuel Bodé)
2
Paulina Puchi (WG2)
Italy
Switzerland
Finalizing the literature review database for tree-ring based water use efficiency estimates and performing first analyses
WSL (Host: Marco Lehmann)
3
Carlos Miguel Landivar Albis (WG2)
Austria
Switzerland
Reviewing the effects of climate change and atmospheric deposition on European forest ecosystems over the last 30 years through the lens of tree growth, water-use efficiency (WUE) and mortality
WSL (Host: Mathieu Levesque)
4
Charlotte Angrove (WG3):
Finland
Germany
Reviewing the recent progress on the effects of climate extremes and nitrogen deposition on trees, soil, and forest ecosystems
University of Μünster (Host: Mana Gharun)
5
Lora Stoeva
Bulgaria
UK
Build a matrix of tree species, soil and management for climate and N mitigation potential
Forest Research (Host: Elena Vanguelova)
6
Anna Gardner
UK
Estonia
Can short-term climate manipulation experiments predict reality in the long term?
University of Tartu (Host: Ivika Ostonen)
Open-topic STSMs
No
Name
Affiliated country
Hosting country
Topic of STSM
Host Institution & Scientist
1
Li Li
China
UK
Interactive effects of N and P fertilization on NSC allocation of temperate deciduous forests at BIFoR-FACE
University of Birmingham (Host: Sami Ullah)
2
Lucia Mondanell
Italy
Switzerland
The Functionality of trees inside and outside cities: human and climate effects on isotopes characterization in Pinus pinea
WSL (Host: Paolo Cherubini)
3
Toprak Aslan
Finland
USA
Understanding the effect of wind-induced pressure fluctuations on gas exchange at a snow-covered boreal forest
Duke University (Host: Gabriel Katul)
4
Angela Balzano
Slovenia
Italy
Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in Response to Environmental Stress in Mediterranean Shrubs
University of Naples (Host: Veronica de Mico)
5
Laura Steward
Spain
Finland
Processing Terrestrial Laser Scans of Three Co-Existing Mediterranean Tree Species Within a Long-Term Drought Stress Experiment
University of Eastern Finland (Host: Samuli Junttila)

02. ITC Conference Grants - 1st, 2nd and 3rd Call

No
Name
Affiliated country
Conference title and venue
Title of the presentation / poster
1
Giorgos Xanthopoulos
Greece
IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden
Carbon stocks and fluxes of a natural Mediterranean Aleppo pine ecosystem
2
Stavroula Zacharoudi
Greece
IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden
Seasonal variation of soil respiration in Mediterranean oak-dominated ecosystems in Greece
3
Wojciech Kędziora
Poland
IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden
Does fertilization effort pay off at harvest? A case study from 50 years old birch plantations for sustainable bioeconomics
4
Oksana Pelyukh
Ukraine
Conference “Earth as a Human-Environmental System”, Poland
Vulnerability of mountain forest ecosystem of the Ukrainian Carpathians: application of the DPSIR framework

03. Dissemination Grants - 1st, 2nd and 3rd Call

No
Name
Affiliated country
Conference title and venue
Title of the oral contribution
1
Rocio Alonso
Spain
IUFRO RG 8.04 Conference “Role and Fate of Forest Ecosystems in a Changing World”, Thailand
Joint effects of CLimate Extremes and Atmospheric depositioN on European FORESTs – CLEANFOREST EU COST-ACTION CA21138
2
Richard Nair
Ireland
IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden
CLEANFOREST WG4 @ IUFRO
3
Daniele Creek
Norway
IUFRO 2024 World Congress, Sweden
Combined effects of climate extremes and atmospheric deposition on forest growth and water-use efficiency
4
Silvana Munzi
Portugal
International Botanical Congress, Spain
CLEANFOREST COST Action: helping forests to face the Anthropocene