News from the internal elements of IFSA.
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. [...]
IFSA-Maderacre Internship opportunity As part of the new partnership between IFSA and Maderacre (Peru), IFSA members have the opportunity to conduct a 2-4 months internship with this company in the region of Madre de Dios. In order to apply for this opportunity, please fill in this application form attaching [...]
Shaping Tomorrow's Forestry Leaders (UNFF Delegation Report): Youth Perspectives and Lessons from The 18th United Nations Forum and Forests Session 2023 Introduction The UN Forum on Forests is a vital commission of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with a diverse membership from around the globe. Since its [...]
Open Call - Development Fund June 2023 What is the Development Fund? The development fund is a part of the IFSA budget that is used to support IFSA members to engage in IFSA Activities. The lack of financial resources is one of the major factors that limit the involvement [...]
Official Of The Month May 2023 Congratulations to the Language Sub-Commission, Meynard Sitorus, Cynthia Gamboa, and Elif Dübüs, for being the May 2023 Officials of the Month! The team has exceptionally executed the Spanish and German Language Schools, which both concluded this month. They also translated the IFSA presentation into five languages. [...]
Southern Europe Regional Meeting 2023 Event Report This spring, between the 15th and 21st of May, LC Dren from the Faculty of Forestry, Landscape Architecture, and Ecoengineering “Hans Em” in Macedonia hosted the 2023 edition of SERM. After the earthquakes in Southeastern Turkey, LC Istanbul could not host SERM. [...]
“Forests and Climate TransparencyWebinar Series from FAO Introduction Countries have made substantial advances in developing and operationalizing their National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) to comply with the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) framework under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as to provide better forest data to [...]
[Call for abstracts] IUFRO Symposium on Forest Education Merging Theory and Practice with the Help of Digital Tools The IUFRO Symposium on Forest Education will consist of invited keynotes and seminars, voluntary papers and round table discussions, short communications, field visits, and teaching observations. These activities take place in Helsinki [...]
Join the four regions' Interregional Call! Huge interregional call between FOUR regions of Africa and Europe Northern Africa, Northern Europe, Southern Africa, and Southern Europe are organizing a four-region Interregional Call to learn about each other better and create a place for different regions to meet. As it is [...]
IFSA Delegation at the UN Water Conference ‘23Event OverviewThe UN Water Conference 2023 was an international conference organized by the UN aiming to provide a platform to discuss topics around SDG 6, ”Clean Water and Sanitation.” This year’s conference took place from March 22 to March 24 at the UN [...]
2023 IFSA Job Fair Event Report On the 27th of May, 2023, around 120 IFSA members joined the 2023 IFSA Virtual Job Fair. It was the second installment of the event, after the first one in March 2022, where global organizations were invited to present their job and internship [...]
