Webinar: What’s forest education up to in Africa and Europe?
Are you studying forestry or a forest-related field? Or are you teaching at a university in one of these fields? Great! You might be interested to know that FAO published six regional assessment reports on forest education around the globe in 2021. Those reports reflect on the current status and needs of formal forest education […]
Expert Group meeting on the pan-European Forest Risk Knowledge Mechanism (FoRISK)
The preliminary agenda will focus on a comprehensive exchange on the updated FoRISK concept paper including the proposal of the FoRISK Pilot implementation (to be circulated before the meeting). In this context, Forest Europe signatories and observers feedback will be summarized building on the guiding questions related to FoRISK concept paper (“Annex4-202201_Guiding_Questions_ConceptPaper-WS2_V0”) . In addition, […]
ROSEWOOD 4.0: Fostering Innovation towards a more sustainable Forest Sector in Europe
Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, Barcelona St. Antoni M. Claret, 167, 08025, Barcelona, SpainOn 14-15 June the H2020 ROSEWOOD4.0 project will hold its final event in Barcelona, Spain (hosted in a hybrid format). The event is co-organised by the European Forest Institute (EFI) and Steinbeis Europe Zentrum (SEZ) and will consist of 3 sessions with innovation toward a more sustainable forestry sector in Europe as the cornerstone. Attendees will […]
SILVA Network 2022 Conference: Higher Forestry education in times of multiple crises: crises as framework conditions, challenges and triggers for improvements
Resilience is the ability to emerge stronger from crisis situations. But how resilient is higher education in forestry? How does teaching and learning about forests address or respond to crises? It could be said that higher education in forestry only really developed as a result of a crisis; in response to the devastation of forests […]
FOREST EUROPE High-Level Talks
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft Rochusstraße 1, 53123, Bonn, GermanyWe are glad to invite you to a High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) titled “Sustainable Forest Management: unlocking forest biodiversity’s potential” on 30 August 2022 (from 1 to 5 pm CEST). FOREST EUROPE develops common strategies at the pan-European level for its 46 signatories on how to protect and sustainably manage their forests (www.foresteurope.org). The HLPD […]
FOREST EUROPE Open House
Forest Europe invites all forestry students and students from related fields to join this Open House. We will present this unique pan-European process and explain the structure, work programme and idea behind it. Certainly, there will be time for questions and answers as well. And whoever is able to answer the most questions correctly in […]
Scientific-Technical Symposium “Assessing Forest Damage and Disturbance”
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , AustriaThe natural disasters, diseases and pests of the past years have shown the vulnerability of forests. Research and the assessment of forest damages and disturbance indicate an urgent need for improving monitoring and reporting. Therefore, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the […]
Joint Workshop: Develop, adopt and transfer innovative solutions and actions to prevent and control wildfires
Antalya, Turkey , TurkeyThe intensity, frequency, and widespread of wildfires are rapidly increasing and despite advanced firefighting mechanisms and increasing public and political awareness, the increasing complexity and consequences related to wildfires demand for international cooperation to support the development, adoption and transfer of innovative solutions and actions to prevent and better control wildfires across Europe. In the […]
Youth Forest Policy Days
Online eventThis is a conference-like online event organized by the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA). The objective is to enable the youth community to exchange knowledge and gain more insights about international forest policies. The conference will have well-known forest policy experts that will explain how forest policy works and bring real world examples. It is […]
SILVA Network Annual Conference: Communication – a neglected topic in higher forestry education and further education?
University of Sopron - SOE, Faculty of Forestry, Sopron Bajcsy-Zsilinszky street 4., Sopron, HungaryHuman life on Earth can only be sustained with the survival and proper functioning of natural systems, especially forests. However, large-scale deforestation and forest degradation takes place in many countries in the world. In other parts of the World, the unstoppable process of urbanization increasingly leads to the physical and mental separation of people from nature. More and more this is resulting in total refusal of active measures in forests aiming at wood production. In political decision-making and economic processes, you barely find representatives of forest related sciences. While we are exceeding the limits of our planet's carrying capacity, awareness of that wicked problem is limited and nature-based solutions are underrepresented in the political discussions on problem solving.
Joint Workshop: Managing Biotic Threats in Forests – Lessons Learned from Bark Beetle Calamities
Equitania Hotel Resort Martinice 1, Březnice, Středočeský kraj, 262 72, Březnice, Czech RepublicThe workshop is part of FOREST EUROPEs work towards the implementation of a pan-European forest risk knowledge facility (FoRISK) to support forests adaptation to changing climatic and site conditions as well as to enhance the resilience and mitigation potential of forests at a pan-European level.
17th European Forest Pedagogics Congress 2023
JUFA Hotel Königswinter Bergstraße 115, Königswinter, Germany„Learning to create together ‒ How can forest-related ESD build partnerships and empower people?” The Forest Pedagogy Conference lead by the SDW is a nationwide conference on the professionalisation of forest pedagogues that has been held regularly since 2006. This year, we will carry out a Congress, which combines the established SDW Forest Pedagogy Conference […]