CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA PROPRIETE FORESTIERE

Their core work

CNPF is the French national center for private forest ownership, responsible for advising and supporting private forest owners across France on sustainable management of their woodlands. In H2020 projects, they contribute practical expertise on wood mobilisation — getting timber from fragmented private forests into supply chains — and on building regional networks that connect forest owners, industry, and policy. They also engage with satellite-based remote sensing for operational forestry and with Mediterranean non-wood forest products like cork, resins, and edibles.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

CNPF's early H2020 involvement (2017-2018) centred on broader forestry themes: Mediterranean non-wood products and satellite-based forest monitoring. From 2018 onward, their focus narrowed sharply toward sustainable wood mobilisation and regional network building, with ROSEWOOD and ROSEWOOD4.0 forming a clear continuation. The progression from ROSEWOOD (knowledge exchange) to ROSEWOOD4.0 (digitalisation) shows a deliberate move toward technology-enabled forestry logistics.

CNPF is moving from traditional forestry advisory work toward digitalised, data-driven wood supply chain coordination across European regions.

How they like to work

CNPF operates exclusively as a participant, never leading consortia — consistent with their role as a domain expert contributing forestry ground-truth rather than managing large research projects. With 43 unique partners across 21 countries, they are well-networked across Europe despite their modest project count. Their repeat involvement in the ROSEWOOD series suggests they build lasting relationships and are a trusted partner that consortia invite back.

CNPF has collaborated with 43 distinct partners across 21 countries, giving them a surprisingly broad European network for an organization with only 4 projects. This reach reflects the pan-European nature of forestry coordination and CSA-type networking projects.

What sets them apart

CNPF represents millions of hectares of French private forests and their owners — a perspective rarely found in research consortia, where academic or industrial partners dominate. They bring direct operational knowledge of how fragmented private forest ownership blocks wood supply, and what practical measures actually work to mobilise timber. For any consortium working on forestry, bioeconomy, or rural development, CNPF offers a credible link between EU-level policy goals and on-the-ground reality in one of Europe's largest forested countries.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INCREdible
  Largest grant (EUR 201,894) and broadest scope — covering cork, resins, and edible forest products across the Mediterranean, beyond CNPF's usual wood focus.
• ROSEWOOD4.0
  Direct sequel to ROSEWOOD with a digitalisation mandate, showing CNPF's evolution from traditional networking to technology-ready forest supply chains.
• MySustainableForest
  Only project applying satellite remote sensing to operational forestry, demonstrating CNPF's willingness to adopt space-derived data for forest management.