Basajaun is a European innovation action about sustainable building with wood. The main objective is to demonstrate how wood construction chains can be optimized to foster both rural development and urban transformation whilst being connected with sustainable forest management in Europe. The consortium comprises 29 partners from 12 countries including 8 leading research and technology organizations, 3 universities, 15 companies and 4 other public and sectoral organizations. The project is coordinated by the Tecnalia Research and Innovation Foundation in Spain and has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 862942.

The objectives of Deliverable 1.2 are to: 1) Describe the political, industrial, and market driven context for wood construction in Finland (pilot region North Karelia), France (Gironde), and Poland (West Pomerania); 2) Map the existing rural production – urban consumption relationships in wood construction; and 3) Set a framework for modelling and analyzing the socio-economic impacts of wood construction in the pilot regions by using North Karelia, Finland, as a case. Based on 3), we define the procedure for country and region wise analyses, which will be carried out in BASAJAUN WP7 Open innovation platform and rural-urban pilot demonstrators.