In this KA2-project Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik e.V. is responsible for:

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The KWF was founded in 1964 by the German Länder and the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The German Centre for Forest Work and Technology (KWF) is a registered non-profit association and is supported by more than 2600 members.

The KWF is the competence center for forestry work, forestry technology and wood logistics in Germany and Europe and provides advice to all key players in the forestry, wood and bio-energy sectors.

As a transnational non-profit organization, the KWF focuses on all major tasks for securing the future, preventing accidents and protecting the environment in a precautionary way.

The KWF examines and certifies forestry technology, tools, supplies and protection equipment.

Furthermore, the KWF fulfills a cross-sectional function bridging the worlds of research, practice and industry for the areas of forestry, wood and bio-energy.

The KWF-Tagung is the largest forestry fair worldwide and includes a congress, specialist excursions and a forestry machinery and novelty show.

In addition, the KWF organizes special shows on the subject of forest and wood, e.g. at INTERFORST, LIGNA.

At its headquarters in Groß-Umstadt, the KWF organizes specialist forums, seminars, workshops and expert talks on current topics related to forest practice. In 2017 the KWF organized a special event “IT applications in Forestry” where all aspects from Forest inventories to data management in harvesting operations but also IT based learning systems were presented and discussed.

The KWF has a leading role in evaluation and introducing IT application in forestry. Examples are the NAVLOG process were the potential for rationalization along the logistic chain is improved in applying geoinformation data . The process also includes safety aspects for example in the identification of places where accidents happen and the automatic information of rescue teams.

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