News from the internal elements of IFSA.
Desita is the current Head of Web Sub-Commission. Not only has she has consistently fulfilled her responsibilities since the beginning of the term, but she has also shown her excellence and creativity in projects such as the Official IFSA Email System, CommComms 101, and IFSA Zoom Request System. Desita has [...]
Interregional Call Latin America meets Southern Europe On Jan 23, 2022, the regions of Latin America and Southern Europe met together on a video call to get to know each other, learn about each other's culture, forestry, food, and more! Group photo of interregional call: Latin America meets [...]
IFSA Palencia Celebrates an Event to Introduce IUFOR Researching Topics to Students by Aitor Vázquez Veloso, IFSA Palencia President On November 24th, LC IFSA Palencia (Spain) hosted an event where the students had the opportunity to know the topics researched at University Institute of Sustainable Forest Management (iuFOR) groups. [...]
GLF Climate: Frontiers of Change A report by the IFSA Delegation Author: Yeji Lee, Aditi Mishra The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world's largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. The Forum takes a holistic approach [...]
Cultural Day of Indonesia By: Kyle Joseph Quijano Head of Cultural Competencies Sub-Commission The first Cultural Day for the year 2022 was held last January 21, 2022, at 1 pm UTC+0 on IFSA's Discord Chanel. Rahma Maulidhina who was the President of IFSA LC IPB 2021 and Faiha Azka [...]
Yuyo Yeh has served as the Head of Publication Sub-Commission under the Communication Communication for two consecutive years. Since then, she has consistently shown excellence in producing monthly newsletters with her outstanding writing skills for the information of all IFSA members. Therefore, the Board recognizes Yuyo as the Official [...]
Bimonthly Board Reports December Board’s work between November and December 2021 Erasmus Grant Proposal Throughout November and December, the Board was working literally every day on preparation of the grant application. In December, the application was submitted to the Erasmus committee which will decide by March whether IFSA receives [...]
Johanna currently serves as the Northern European Regional Representative. Together with her RR partner Carl, they have interacted with their region since day one, substantially increasing the number of active LCs and organizing monthly Coffee Hours. Johanna motivates her colleagues in the working group, ensures the fulfillment of all [...]
[Open Call] Regional Meeting OC 2022 Northern African Dear IFSA’s Northern African Region! Would you like to host the next Northern African Regional Meeting? A new opportunity is here: you can now apply to become the 2022 host and Organizing Committee (OC) of your Regional Meeting! With the [...]
UNFCCC COP26 Glasgow Experience Author: Nele Römer This year the United Nations Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) hosted the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland and IFSA had the opportunity to send a delegation of 10 persons. We want to give a small overview on COP26 importance, [...]
Cultural Day of the Philippines By: Kyle Joseph Quijano (Head of Cultural Competencies Sub-Commission) The second "Cultural Day" for the term 2021-2022 was held last November 19, 2021, at 2 pm UTC+0 via Zoom Meetings. The country that was featured for this month was none other than the "Philippines". With [...]
Each year, The European Forest Institute (EFI) organizes an annual conference in which associate and affiliate members of EFI meet each other. IFSA as one of the associate members, IFSA representatives participate in the meeting to represent international forestry students. It is my pleasure to become the IFSA representative [...]
Jazmín is currently serving as the Head of the Capacity Development Commission. In October, she spearheaded the “Capacity Building Workshop: Team Development” session and co-hosted the Cultural Day for Mexico. She has exhibited excellent leadership by regularly organizing monthly commission and individual sub-commission meetings and making an extensive work [...]
(by Carrera Calle, Vania*; Gutiérrez Sotelo, Joaquín*; Sánchez Chávez, Yamile*) The Amazon is located in Latin America and is shared by eight countries. It is established in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Suriname. This ecosystem contains great biodiversity in flora, fauna, and communities. It plays an [...]
Germany Meeting Göttingen 2021 In October 2021, the German LCs held their annual IFSA Germany Meeting which was the first IFSA in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic! For four days, 22 participants from five German LCs and LCs from Denmark, Serbia and Estonia met in Göttingen [...]
