ultifunctional forests offer diversified opportunities of sustainably optimising the usage of natural resources and creating rural development opportunities. That is why they play a key role in the successful implementation of the EU bioeconomy strategy.

In order to explore innovative approaches in creating new values from multifunctional forests the EIP-AGRI network organised, with the support of the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, a two-day workshop in Vienna on 10-11 November 2016.