News from the internal elements of IFSA.
Abstract submission for the 12th WEEC Don't forget to submit your Abstract for the 12th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC). The deadline has been extended until August 30, 2023 Why Submit? The Congress aims to build bridges between: Different approaches to environmental education and education for sustainable development [...]
Open Call: UNFCCC COP28 Delegation The 28th conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will convene from 30 November to 12 December at the Expo City Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It will also comprise the fifth meeting of the [...]
Tree Plantations in the Landscape The Forests Dialogue IFSA Delegation From June 12th to 16th, The Forests Dialogue organized a Field Dialogue in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, where IFSA had the opportunity to participate with a delegation confirmed by Neekita Urang from LC FRI, India, and Rizka Afif Muhammad from LC [...]
Northern Africa Regional Meeting 2023 Event Report Background of the Event: Northern Africa Regional Meeting 2023 The Northern African Regional Meeting 2023 was organized and hosted by the Federal University of Technology Akure Local Committee (FUTA LC) in Nigeria. The event lasted seven days and attracted 100 participants, with [...]
IFSOW Wageningen weekend The IFSOW LC Wageningen hosted many cool activities in Wageningen from the weekend of 9 June until 11 June, together with international guests of other LCs. A sawmill excursion, campus tour, Wageningen walk, forest nursery excursion, and forest arboretum excursion were all included in the awesome [...]
Forest Europe Expert-Level Meeting(ELM) 21st & 22nd of June 2023: An IFSA Delegate perspective FOREST EUROPE Expert Level Meeting, Dresden 2023 From the 21st to the 22nd of June, FOREST EUROPE (Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe) organized the Expert Level Meeting of 2023 (ELM for [...]
ForestNavigator - IFSA representation at the stakeholder workshop On June 19-20, the EU-funded ForestNavigator project held its first Stakeholder Board workshop at IIASA headquarters in Laxenburg, Austria. The project aims to model policy pathways and enhance the contribution of the European forestry sector to achieve climate neutrality. On this [...]
Official of The Month - June 2023 Chrispus Ongom As the Regional Representative of Southern Africa, Chrispus has been doing an excellent job helping the region to be active and updated. Besides the basic duties of an RR, he also steps beyond his responsibilities by for example helping with execution [...]
Open-Call Global Competition on Best Practices in Forest Education 2.0 The Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education is happy to announce for the second time "The Global Competition on Best Practices in Forest Education" to celebrate and reward the efforts of forestry teachers and professors around the world. [...]
Open Call for In-person IFSA Delegation to GLF Nairobi Description The climate crisis is already impacting every corner of the Earth – and it’s taking a heavy toll on rural communities dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods. It’s time for a new vision. This October, join us in-person [...]
Interim 2023 Report Interim is the mid-year meeting for IFSA officials which usually takes place between late December and early February for a week. This year, the meeting took place from the 1st to the 15th of February in Makassar, Indonesia hosted by the IFSA LC UNHAS. For the [...]
OPEN CALL - Regional Meeting OC, Southern Africa Dear IFSA’s Southern Africa Region! Would you like to host the next Southern African Regional Meeting? A new opportunity is here: you can now apply to become the 2024 host and Organizing Committee (OC) of your Regional Meeting! Regional Meetings (RMs) are [...]
Join RECOFTC E-Learning Course on Policy Analysis and Forest Governance 101 RECOFTC opened for enrolment the e-course Policy Analysis and Forest Governance 101. This free e-course introduces basic concepts of policy analysis to improve forest governance. Enrolment will be open until 25 June. The e-course will run from 13 [...]
Germany meeting 2023 - Freiburg/Schwarzwald Caption: Hinterzarten in the Black Forest The meeting took place between Thursday and Sunday - the 8th and 11th of June, in Schwarzwald (the Black Forest) near Freiburg, as LC Freiburg organized it. We stayed in a hut owned by the Faculty of [...]
OPEN CALL - SOUTHERN AFRICA REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE Dear IFSA World, IFSA wishes to announce the open call for the position of Regional Representatives for Southern Africa. This is a call for enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who will serve for the term 2023/24 starting from August 2023 till August 2024. [...]
