Task 1 - Stakeholders, planning, coordination and dissemination
The PINEA Project aims to provide a better scientific understanding of stone pine productivity in relation to water and nutrients and to produce information to support the management of its stands. Thus, the involvement of stone pine stakeholders in the definition of goals, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of results is essential to guarantee that the information to be produced will have relevance for the improvement of stone pine management in Portugal. This Task will include the necessary dissemination of results.
The participatory approach to the PINEA Project has already started. Several informal meetings have been held with forest owners, officers from the Forest Service, representatives from Landowners Associations and forest researchers to discuss and to find a common approach to the different perspectives about priorities for information about stone pine management.
The PINEA Project intends to hold at least 2 team general meetings to which stone pine stakeholders will be invited. More meetings will be organized, if, it is considered necessary while running the project. Chronologically, these general meetings will happen at the beginning, (a ‘kick-off’ meeting) and at the end of the Project. The first meeting will discuss the planning and coordination of PINEA Project Tasks. The final meeting will evaluate results and discuss what was accomplished.
Every 6 months there will be a milestone’s meeting which will be organized with the researchers who are in the tasks involved in that milestone.
The results of the PINEA Project will be published both in national and international journals. In addition, PINEA Project results will be published in the Project’s website www.pinuspinea.com. The website will be updated at least every 6 months and more often if considered necessary. PINEA Project website has been already a major platform to interact with forest researchers, landowners and managers interested in Pinus pinea research internationally. Since its establishment the website had already over 4000 visits from over 100 countries with over 9900 page views.