Date | Type of event | Online or In person | Title of the event | Details of the event | Time | Agenda |
27/01/2025
| Workshop | In person | Workshop on the implementation of the European Commission’s forest guidelines in the Boreal Region | The workshop will focus on the 2023 guidelines’ role in enhancing the resilience of forests in the boreal region, a topic of particular importance in light of the challenges faced by forests from both increased climate stressors and the needs of the bioeconomy. | Helsinki (Finland) UTC+2:00 27/01/2025 - 13:00 - 17:30 28/01/2025 - 09:00 - 17:30 | |
08/04/2024 | Workshop | In person | EU Forest Strategy 2030: Workshop on Biodiversity-friendly Forest Management in the Alpine Biogeographic Region | The workshop will focus on the critical theme of sustainable forest management, emphasising the preservation of biodiversity, through the presentation and discussion of the European Commission Guidelines published in 2023 and synergies with the activities of the Alpine Biodiversity Board of the Alpine Convention. The workshop aims to facilitate collaborative discussions among experts, policymakers, and practitioners focusing on biodiversity-friendly approaches to forest management. By sharing experiences, challenges, and best practices from various Alpine countries, the event seeks to enhance our understanding of sustainable forest management and promote ongoing cooperation. | Turin (Italy), 9:00 - 17:30 CET | |
03/04/2024 (afternoon) 04/04/2024 (morning) | Workshop | In person | Expert workshop on the knowledge base for strenghtening sustainable and closer-to-nature forest management in line with the EU Forest Strategy 2030 | The workshop will be dedicated to state-of-the-art scientific knowledge in forest ecology and silvicultural practices underpinning sustainable and closer-to-nature forest management as foreseen in the EU Forest Strategy 2030. Having in mind the objectives of EU policy on biodiversity, climate change and bioeconomy, the discussion will focus on the spatial and temporal scale of applying the principles of sustainability in the context of a changing climate and its impacts; the criteria and indicators of sustainability and their thresholds at different scales; as well as options for their dissemination and uptake in forest management. The focus will be on the specificities of the Continental and Alpine biogeographic regions. | Freising (Germany) 03/04/2024 13:00 - 18:00 CET 04/04/2024 9:00 - 13:00 CET | |
05/03/2024 | Webinar | Online | EU Forest Strategy 2030: Mapping EU Primary and Old-growth forests | The objective of the webinar is to get an overview of the process of developing and applying the Primary and Old-Growth Forest mapping methods, to understand the different approaches across the EU. Specific topics will address, among others, how the guidelines have been valuable in the process, what the national specificities or challenges encountered so far have been, and how different stakeholders have been or will be involved. | 14.00 - 16.30 CET |
