The Horizon Europe WoodStock project develops climate-smart solutions to increase the use of underutilised wood in the European construction sector. Through a Living Lab approach, and in support of the New European Bauhaus (NEB), the four-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: resources, flows and impacts;
• Develop zero-waste, circular product and building designs that consider human health and well-being: zero-waste solutions for healthy living;
• Provide holistic policy, innovation, and business strategy frameworks: innovation, policies, and strategies;
• 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 Living Labs will bring together research organisations, industry, government agencies and citizens in the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Poland, France and Slovenia.

The InnoRenew CoE will host the Living Lab in Slovenia, where it will run collaborative co-creation workshops, in which participants will generate new ideas, brainstorm solutions, discuss challenges, share insights, and analyse problems together for addressing a different aspect of sustainable wood construction.

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).

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The WoodStock Horizon Europe project is funded by by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.