Research projects: Innovative, novel, outside-of-the-box research that has a high potential to change forestry practice. Projects need to be participatory (including stakeholders) and can have an interdisciplinary approach. 10% of the budget needs to be spent for knowledge transfer and the proposed approach should be scalable to different contexts/regions.

Science-practice projects: Specific science-practice projects facilitating collaboration: communication, dialogue and knowledge exchange to promote mutual understanding as well as coproduction between researchers and practitioners working together to develop research questions or design studies. Applications must demonstrate the commitment of the collaborating parties and the sustainability of the approach.