On Thursday, April 23, Dominik Saladin from Forst Baden-Württemberg visited with three foresters in training (Benedikt Debes, Louise Harms and Daniel Zeggl) the Freiburg City Forest Enterprise and there the Mooswald with the forest district manager Markus Müller, who is also the managing director of the WaldHaus Freiburg. Dominik being Deputy Forest Head for the Southern Black Forest...
The Bio Valley College Network “Life Sciences Symposium” targets secondary school teachers and aims at enriching biology teaching with tried-and-tested modern experiments, working techniques, and up-to-date specialist knowledge. The programme centres on two specialist lectures and two 90-minute workshops, during which teachers engage in practical work and gain hands-on experience. In an exchange forum, ideas,...
From 15–16 April, 30 forest practitioners, researchers, and representatives from 12 European countries gathered in Binzen, Germany, for a very special two-day workshop – the first-ever “Train the Trainers” event on IBP, organised by the Integrate Network in collaboration with the EU Horizon TRANSFORMIT Project. We specifically invited a small group of participants to allow...
By Lenka Lehnerová, Integrate Network member representative from Czech Republic On 24 March 2026, the final training session on tree microhabitats for staff of the Czech National Forest Inventory (NFI), carried out by the Czech Forestry Institute (NLI), took place – marking an important step towards integrating biodiversity-related indicators into large-scale forest monitoring. Starting this year,...
Applications are now open for the Summer School “Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration”! Date: 16–21 August 2026 Location: Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland Application Deadline: 30 April 2026 The Summer School is organized by the ETH-Domain Joint Initiative SCENE – Swiss Center of Excellence on Net Zero Emissions, the TriNational...
The BOKU article for the International Day of Forests, written in German and accessible here, highlights how sustainable forest management can reconcile wood production, climate protection, and biodiversity conservation, using the Austrian Living Lab Wegscheid as a real-world testbed for new integrative practices. It showcases how integrative forest management approaches – such as ecological landscape...
Guest article by Vasyl Lavnyy and Peter Spathelf, originally written in German and published here. One of the central tasks of forest management is deciding when, where, and what kinds of interventions are needed in a forest. But what factors should influence those decisions? Participants of forestry workshops often bring very different goals, motivations, and levels of experience to...
The marteloscope Sailershausen 2. Written by Andreas Schuck, Senior Researcher at the European Forest Institute Integrating multiple forest management objectives and increasing forest resilience despite the uncertainties of our climatic and socioeconomic future is a challenge for forest managers. Marteloscopes are field plots in which every tree has been mapped and measured. They are thus...
Guest article by Vasyl Lavnyy1, Peter Spathelf2 1Vize-Rektor für Forschung an der Nationalen Forsttechnischen Universität der Ukraine in Lviv, Dr. habil.; 103 General Chuprynka st., Lviv, 79057, Ukraine; lavnyy@gmail.com 2Professur für Angewandten Waldbau, Hochschule für Nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde; Schicklerstrasse 5, D-16225 Eberswalde, Germany; peter.spathelf@hnee.de Eine Hauptaufgabe der Waldbewirtschaftung ist es, zu entscheiden, wann, wo und welche Art von Eingriffen durchgeführt werden müssen. Was sind Faktoren,...
As Ireland concludes its term as Chair of the Integrate Network, this address offers a moment to reflect on the past year and the shared progress made in advancing integrative forest management across Europe. Drawing on the experience of forest owners, the value of peer learning, and the use of practical tools to turn knowledge...
