The main objective of this Action is to achieve improvement in bonding timber and wood towards a higher common technical, economic and environmental standard. In particular the Action aims to take into account specific issues as evaluation and examination of the technical potentials of bonding timber and wood, improvement of the quality of the European databases on the technical, economical and statistical information concerning the overall topic of bonding timber and wood and to promote the development of appropriate systems for bonding timber and wood on a European level to optimize the use of wood resources.