CA22155 Action establishes a network for the past, present and future of use of major non-timber forest raw materials and products in Europe. Whilst it will focus on forest by-products mainly Potash Tar Resin Charcoal (PoTaRCh) – as representatives of traditional forest exploitation heritage, it will touch upon other forest by-products (tannins, pitches).

The goal of CA22155 Action is to identify and assess production changes and their social and environmental impacts on sustainable development, and based on their heritage, to draw lessons for the future.

The CA22155 Action will support researchers, stakeholders (museums, state forests, associations, etc.) and tradition bearers who know and are interested in these products in their research, discovery, use in production, education and heritage promotion.

If you are interested in joining this Action (the description of this action CA22155 you can find on https://link.edgepilot.com/s/06a629b3/X6GYqsbAN0ylXvhpqJafHA?u=https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22155/ , panel on the right under the MoU name), you can express your intent on the website dedicated to working groups: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/3bf0aabe/6AHohvLtUU24YibU2cmNeQ?u=https://e-services.cost.eu/action/CA22155/working-groups/applications.

Here you will be asked to choose the working group(s) you are most interested in. The first management committee meeting will take place 3rd October (only for a Committee Members). There they will go through the list of interested parties for the working groups and register them. You will then receive information about meetings, etc. via email.

Note that if you do not yet have a COST profile, the link above will first direct you to a registration page, which you will have to fill out.

If your country has not yet represented for this action (until now we have 35 representatives from 24 countries: Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Belgium (1) Switzerland (1), Czech republic (2), Denmark (1), Greece (2), Spain (1), Finland (2), Croatia (1), Italy (2), Luxembourg (1), Norway (2), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Serbia (1), Sweden (2), Slovakia (2), Turkey (2), United Kingdom (1) - each country can have 2 representatives, you can propose yourself through a national coordinator (https://link.edgepilot.com/s/aa1ca7b6/iYqzb5RCVEmil4OnQZIvEw?u=https://www.cost.eu/about/who-is-who/national-coordinators/)

Cost Actions are an excellent way to get to know other researchers and practitioners.