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Promoting innovative start-ups that invest in nature

  • Promoting innovative start-ups that invest in nature
  • Sustainable investments
  • ItalyUnited StatesRomaniaSpainUnited Kingdom
  • European Commission

  • Fledge Environment, Forest Design, Ecosystem Marketplace, NepCon, Ricardo plc, Transylvania University of Brasov, University Polytechnic of Madrid, University of Manchester.

ECOSTAR is a hub and accelerator that, through networking and training activities, links together the academic and business worlds, and promotes the founding and acceleration of new entrepreneurial initiatives, which aim at having a positive impact on the environment and society. The initiative is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union, and by private investors.

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An international hub that promotes and accelerates businesses with a positive impact on the environment and society

Development and protection of lowland forest resources

  • 2011 2018
  • Development and protection of lowland forest resources
  • Local development, Responsible management
  • Italy
  • AFP

Since 2011, we assist AFP (Association of Lowland Forests) in the management of 320 hectares of recreational forests in the Venice area (3 million tourist per year). The forests are both publicly and privately owned and are FSC certified. We deal with fundraising activities (€ 1.7 million in 5 years), project assistance to members, dissemination and promotion activities for the forests.

Fighting malnutrition through wild forest products

  • 2017 2019
  • Fighting malnutrition through wild forest products
  • Responsible management
  • Burkina Faso
  • AES-CCC, Ferrero Trading Lux

The Risorsa Terra project aims at ensuring nutrition security through empowerment of women. Homemade food production is encouraged by developing female entrepreneurship linked to wild forest products: shea butter, baobab leaves, moringa leaves and seeds, neré seeds. For this initiative, we are planting 100.000 trees and the creation of business plans and product marketing.

The Risorsa Terra project aims at ensuring nutrition security through empowerment of women. Homemade food production is encouraged by developing female entrepreneurship linked to wild forest products: shea butter, baobab leaves, moringa leaves and seeds, neré seeds. For this initiative, we are planting 100.000 trees and the creation of business plans and product marketing.

Forest investments, between innovation and tradition

  • 2017 2019

An international portfolio of forestry investments with positive environment, social and governance impacts. Through the evaluation of the legal, market, silvicultural, financial and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) sustainability performances of individual forest areas, we organize the management of forests in terms of planning, harvesting, forest improvements and the sale of timber.

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An international portfolio of investments in forest areas with positive environmental , social and governance (ESG) impacts

Territorial tourism as a resource

  • 2016 2018

The Etifor team has realized the marketing and tourism development plan for IPA Diapason Pedemontana del Grappa e Asolano which, through participatory planning, aims at enhancing the image of the territory by selecting excellence, that can represent it at national and international level, organizing the coordinated promotion and marketing systems of the touristic offering and increasing the profitability of the touristic and food&wine sectors.

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From Asolo to Monte Grappa, we release the energy of the land to develop sustainable tourism prospects that enhance nature and culture

Social innovation in marginalised rural areas

  • 2016 2020
The SIMRA project wants to bridge the gap in knowledge about social innovation in marginalised rural areas through the enhancement of innovative systems and good governance mechanisms applied to rural, development.
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SIMRA, strengthening innovative systems and good governance to develop the territory

Alternative models and robust decision-making for future forest management

  • 2016 2020

The ALTERFOR project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, has the task of reviewing existing forest management models (FMMs) and the ways to optimize them. We are actively involved in the stakeholder engagement and in the identification of legally, technically and economically viable systems to implement alternative forest management models.

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The ALTERFOR project has the task of reviewing existing forest management models and much more

Promoting the production of legal timber

  • 2016 2018

The DURAFOR-EST project protects the Congo basin forests promoting the trade of legally harvested timber and facilitating investments in the protection of the wildest forests of the country. Legality, good forest management, small businesses, good governance, innovation and market opportunities are among the challenges and issues we face with.

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Fighting forest degradation and conflicts through good governance, innovation and new market opportunities

National risk analysis for FSC-controlled wood

  • 2016
  • National risk analysis for FSC-controlled wood
  • Responsible management
  • Italy
  • FSC International

  • NEPCon Denmark

To avoid purchasing wood from controversial sources, FSC® certified companies may use Controlled Wood, verifying it through the Centralized National Risk Assessment. We have been working on developing this fundamental document for categories 1 (illegally harvested wood), 4 (from forests being converted to plantations or non-forest use) and 5 (from forests in which genetically modified trees are planted) using the NEPCon template for evaluation of the legal framework of the forestry sector and its guidelines.

To avoid purchasing wood from controversial sources, FSC® certified companies may use Controlled Wood, verifying it through the Centralized National Risk Assessment. We have been working on developing this fundamental document for categories 1 (illegally harvested wood), 4 (from forests being converted to plantations or non-forest use) and 5 (from forests in which genetically

Biomass heating in respect of nature

The Aria Pulita certification classifies biomass domestic heating systems. Making clearer and more comprehensible the assessment of the environmental performance of stoves, fireplaces and boilers it helps the consumer to make a conscious purchase.

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Quality certification investing in technological innovation to obtain environmentally friendly heating.

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