Swedish Peat Reserach Foundation (TorvForsk) is a charitable reserach foundation. Established in 1983 by representatives of the Peat Industry. TorvForsk is to initiate, plan, inplement and evaluate research and development relevant to peat and peatlands. The Congress is a colloboration with the International Peat Society (IPS) which is a non-govermental, non-profit, multidisciplinary organisation of scientific, industrial and regolatory members. The vision of the IPS is to be the authoritative intenational organisation on all of aspects of peatlands and peat.