The partnership's website, relaunched on April 15th, has already registered quite a lot of positive feedback. It features a revised design and new content elements that may eventually evolve into an online dialogue forum for the partnership. To avoid frequent circulation of emails with large attachments to the partners, we have begun posting documents and messages sent in by the partners in dedicated sections for news, events and documents. We would like to thank all members who have already contributed to the website's interactive content!  At a later time, the pages reserved for "working topics" and working groups may allow partners to post documents and information directly and could develop into topic-related forums for registered members. Finally, this information bulletin is an integral part of our communication strategy striving to "fully develop CBFP's coordination potential and to emphasise its role as a forum for dialogue among all the stakeholders of the forest sector".

Enhancing coordination of partner activities: on-going discussions
Are you familiar with the German proverb from the forestry sector, "da, wo gehobelt wird fallen auch Späne" (literally: where you plane wood, shavings fall to the ground)? Unfortunately, the English and the French prefer to use a different image, referring to culinary activities: you cannot prepare an omelette without breaking eggs! The ongoing discussion concerning the facilitation's proposal to group partners around specific working areas, with the interest to help improve the coordination of activities in the region, has shown once again the force of our partnership's as a non-binding network: Every members is asked to express his/her opinion in an open dialogue, and each opinion is considered by the community of CBFP partners. And you can be sur e that, in the end, we will  enjoy together a well-prepared omelette!