September 5, 2018

Workshop: Green Forest Jobs

This Joint UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section expert workshop will explore how the forest sector can adapt to the emerging employment trends and seize opportunities for the creation of new green forest jobs in the UNECE region.  The workshop will identify forest related activities with the highest potential for the creation of green jobs and […]

May 17, 2018

8th Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference 2018

8th Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference – NWBC 2018 Mark your calendars! The next Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference will be held at Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland on October 23-25 2018. Check out the program and topics for call for papers here.  Registration to the conference will be open on April 16 2018. 

May 3, 2018

ThinkForest seminar: Role of bioeconomy in controlling forest fires

The next ThinkForest event, aims to provide a better science-policy understanding of the problem of forest fires. Forest fires have become an increasingly important environmental and economic global challenge. At worst, they cause human and fauna disasters, lost opportunities for livelihood, and play a major role in global CO2 emissions. In southern Europe, the cumulative effects […]

April 24, 2018

Green Chemistry and White Biotechnology: From Innovation to Business

The 4th Edition of the International Conferences aims to make an inventory of innovative technologies and valuation approaches of green chemistry and white biotechnology activities in the world, to realize the sharing of knowledge and foster the creation of new research and development projects in the sector. Michel Hartman is the Managing Director of Burgo Ardennes, […]

April 18, 2018

European Summer School – Creating Forest Experiences

Do you want to meet people from all over Europe? Do you want to raise your voice as the future generation? Do you want to implement your own forest project? The Association for the Protection of the German Forest (“Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald”) invites you to a five day Summer School at the Freusburg from the […]

EFI 2018 Annual Conference and Seminar

EFI’s Annual Conference 2018 will be held in Alghero, Sardinia on 26-28 September.  The Associate and Affiliate Members of EFI meet on annual basis at the Annual Conferences. The Associate Members have a right of vote at the Conference and they thus approve matters such as budgets and work plans, and make decisions on the […]

April 12, 2018

G-STIC 2018

G-STIC is a series of conferences that aim to accelerate the development, dissemination and deployment of technological innovations that enable the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  G-STIC is focused on building knowledge bases and global expert networks to support the technological transitions that are needed for the implementation of the Paris Agreement and […]

Operations Management in Wood Products Industries 2nd Symposium

The goal of this conference is to introduce and discuss new challenges and solution approaches for the process improvement in the wood industry and its supply chain. We invite and welcome everybody interested in operations management in forest based industries to spend a pleasant and informative day at BOKU. Registration via email until 24 April 2018 to ulrike.knaus@boku.ac.at

FORMEC 2018 Improved Forest Mechanisation: Mobilizing natural resources and preventing wildfires

​The Symposium “Forestry Mechanization” (from 1994 named with the acronym “FORMEC”) was held for the first time in 1966 at Zvolen in former Czechoslovakia. The original idea of the organizers of this scientific meeting was to give an opportunity for scientists from Eastern and Central European countries to gather, discuss about forest engineering matters, deepen […]

European Biotech Week: Celebrating Innovation

The sixt edition of the European Biotech Week will take place from September 25 to October 1, 2017. Biotech National Associations, in collaboration with companies, academic and government institutions, science museums and the media, will organise events across Europe to celebrate this cutting edge technology. No matter if your knowledge of biotech is vast or […]