WoodStock project

On 1 November 2024, the new Horizon Europe project WoodStock kicked off to develop climate-smart solutions to increase the use of underutilised wood in the European construction sector to support the New European Bauhaus (NEB). Through a Living Lab approach, the 4-year project promotes sustainable wood construction practices and advances the circular economy. The ambitions of WoodStock are to: - quantify and map wood resources through material flows, carbon accounting, and a robust dynamic Life Cycle Assessment (d-LCA) method - develop zero-waste, circular product and building designs that consider human health and well-being - provide holistic frameworks for policy, innovation, and market development - establish a European Wood Construction Observatory and NEB Lab Through six Living Labs across Europe, WoodStock will collect input and co-create solutions for sustainable wood construction to achieve its ambitions. These Labs will bring together research organisations, industry, government agencies and citizens in the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Poland, France and Slovenia. The WoodStock project consists of 13 European partners and is coordinated by Ghent University. The consortium includes research institutes, universities, the wood construction sector, and small SMEs: Ghent University (Belgium), Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), Aalto University (Finland), University of Bordeaux (France), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), University of Galway (Ireland), Lodz University of Technology (Poland), University of Primorska (Slovenia), Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (Norway), InnoRenew CoE (Slovenia), InnovaWood (EU), CEI-Bois (EU), and WETA (Belgium). You can help in the climate transformation. By signing up to the new WoodStock Connect Network, you can take part in Living Lab workshops, training sessions, and educational activities to learn how to best create climate-smart wood construction practices.