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…
Women’s voices are not optional in forest management – they are essential for its future. By bringing women’s expertise into integrative forest management, we can unlock knowledge that better balances biodiversity, production, and social needs. When women are at the table, forest governance becomes more legitimate and democratic – reflecting the realities of all those who depend on and care for…
By Silvester Boonen, with Jonas Simons, Yannick De Win and Raghav Sharma In Belgium, we say, “meten is weten”, which translates to measuring is knowing. That idea quietly guided us on a crisp January morning in the Sonian Forest, where local researchers, forest managers, and practitioners gathered for a training event organised within the context…
For one semester, Simon Musin, Antoine Van Lede, Samuel Konsdorff, Louis Uytterhaegen and Tom Schriewer shared a mission: To figure out how to set up a new marteloscope close to their Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech faculty in Belgium. But how does one set-up a 1-hectare forested, monitored, and mapped site, used to train forest managers, owners or students on the intersection of biodiversity conservation and timber production? We sat down…
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…