EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

Work package 5:
Project management
Action 5.1:
Management Committees meetings
Description of work: The Management Committee will consist of the project principal investigator (responsible for scientific matters and
leadership), main technical manager (responsible for project logistics and technical support), project administrator (responsible for
financial and legal matters), and leaders of individual work packages. The Management Committee will meet quarterly or more frequently,
if necessary. Due to its primarily scientific character, the committee will be chaired by the principal investigator, Prof. Dr. Ladislav
TuÏinsk˘, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University Zvolen. During the meetings, all key scientific, financial and technical issues.
Action 5.2:
Plenary meetings
Description of work: The meetings will be held twice a year and all scientists involved in the project are entitled to participation. The meetings
will provide opportunities for mutual information transfer among work packages, discussion and rectification of methods if necessary
Action 5.3:
Annual reporting
Description of work: Annual reports on the progress of activities will be prepared by the Management Committee in order to provide all involved
parties with information and the necessary reflection, to keep the team spirit and facilitate inner coherence and focus of the scientific team.
Work package 6:
Dissemination of Knowledge
TUZVO has a substantial record in disseminating knowledge among various target groups. Even prior to setting up the project own internet
page, preliminary results and information will be transmitted through a page dedicated to the primeval forests research in Slovakia, administered
by Joint Centre for the Research of Temperate Primeval Forests (www.virginforests.sk) at the Faculty of Forestry, TUZVO. The transfer of
scientific findings across European scientific circles will be achieved through ISI and other peer-reviewed publications.
The target groups of forest users and owners will be informed through the internet site, leaflets, articles in forestry magazines, brochures, movies
and a virtual, science shop. TUZVO will use its expertise in educational cinematography and movie-making, e. g. a movie on the successful
micropropagation of whych elm trees, and another one on the Primeval Forests of the Carpathians, which was awarded at the international
film festival Envirofilm 2000.
Project results will also be dispersed through the national Pro Silva network and practical training, and through workshops for ministerial staff,
regional administration staff and regional forestry offices.
Timing of individual actions is given in the Annex VI., Project flow-chart
Action 6.1:
Internet page
Description of work: Setting up an highly informative and interactive internet page for all categories of users
Action 6.2:
Scientific papers
Description of work: Quality scientific papers will be published as outlined in the milestones of WP1–WP4.
LIST OF PROJECT WORK PACKAGES
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