Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Castilla-La Mancha (Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo). 173 municipalities.

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2026

End date:

2028

Duration:

18/02/2026 – 30/09/2028

Total budget:

1.688.131 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€1,434,911.35

The project seeks to transform the regulatory framework and business obligations of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) into a structured and articulated demand for territorial forest bioeconomy projects in Castilla-La Mancha, bringing out local initiatives with the potential to be integrated into sustainability reports, and acting as a scalable and replicable vector for activating economic opportunities. social and environmental problems in rural areas, making companies contribute to the development, improvement and consolidation of green infrastructure, connectivity and ecosystem restoration.

The project proposes a double transformation through six actions that manage to promote multi-stakeholder public-private governance, identify business needs and obligations linked to the new regulatory framework on sustainability reporting, and strengthen the capacities of a co-creation laboratory, connecting participants trained in sustainability (and in this new framework) with companies that seek to integrate reportable initiatives into their reports. It is a new training model complementary to the one initiated in the project at UFIL II (forest bioeconomy, sustainability, leadership, startup ventures, and design and innovation), financed with RTRP funds.

• Governance and coordination of the innovative ecosystem.
• Identification of business sustainability needs (CSRD/NEIS) and potential for the forestry sector of Castilla-La Mancha.
• UFIL for the CSRD: laboratory for articulation with companies and entrepreneurship.
• Territorial prospecting and rural-forestry dynamization of initiatives in Castilla-La Mancha.
• Systematization of the proposal for scalability, replicability and durability.
• Forest communication and dissemination.

• Territorial governance for business sustainability.
• Clear identification of the needs and new obligations of business sustainability (CSRD/NEIS) for their translation in the rural and forestry environment of Castilla-La Mancha.
• Generation of territorial and forestry solutions linked to compliance with the CSRD from the UFIL device and consolidated ecosystem.
• Development of a replicable and scalable model of connection between CSRD and territorial bioeconomy.
• Public and business recognition of the link between corporate sustainability and territorial activation of the forest bioeconomy.
• 3 promotions of the training program with a duration of 6 months each and 45 participants
• Deployment of a network of rural-forestry facilitators, as well as new professional profiles trained in sustainability.
• Creation of a catalogue of solutions aligned with business sustainability and a methodological guide to integrate it into the forest bioeconomy.
• Search for synergies from Cuenca in all provinces, with special focus on the Serranía de Cuenca, the Alto Tajo and the municipalities of the Cabriel Valley Biosphere Reserve.
• It is estimated that of the 15 reportable projects, 200^km2 of green infrastructure will be added with access to 116,886 inhabitants of 172 municipalities and 500 hectares restored as a reportable pilot project and 9 entrepreneurship projects.