FoResTTraC's main aim is to coordinate future research plans regarding  adaptation of forest trees to climate change  between Europe and North America. This will be achieved via a concerted strategic research roadmap linking different disciplines such as ecology, genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology.

FoResTTraC brings together a critical mass of research expertise in these disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic with 6 leading European partners, 3 American and 2 Canadian partners. Until now, large scale genomics projects have been conducted “in parallel" between North America and Europe, lacking in cooperative exchange and interaction. The leading institutions coordinating these projects are partners of FoResTTraC to ensure that the current state-of-art research is represented in the project.