News from the internal elements of IFSA.
Biocities Facility in Rome European Forest Institute is growing and expanding its operations! On April 13, there will be a grand opening of the EFI's Biocities Facility in Rome! The opening will be accompanied by the seminar on the Cities in the Age of Forests - a cross-sectorial international seminar [...]
Summer School PROMOWOOD Promotion of wood as key element for achieving net zero The goal of the Summer School “PROMOWOOD”, jointly organized by the ETH-Domain initiatives MainWood & SCENE, the SwissForestLab and the NFZ.forestnet, is to provide a holistic view on the promotion of wood along the wood value chain. [...]
IFSA LC UNHAS Goes to Fields Come Upon The Call From The Hill and The Street IFSA LC UNHAS was invited to present about climate change and clean up the street to make the city clean. The decision of accepting the proposal and invitation was finalized after a discussion on [...]
Bi-monthly Report (January-February) Internal Department The new year of 2023 has been a productive start for the Communication and Capacity Development Commissions of the Internal Department. Read more about the projects and future plans of the sub-commissions below. Communication Commission Capacity Building Workshop: Social Media & Design On the [...]
Open Call Northern Europe Regional Representative Dear IFSA World, IFSA wishes to announce the open call for the position of Regional Representatives for Northern Europe. This is a call for enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals who will serve for the term 2023/24 starting from September 2023 till August 2024. Introduction IFSA [...]
Open Call NERM Organizing Committee Dear IFSA’s Northern European Region! Would you like to host the next Northern European 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 one of the most [...]
Open Table Discussion on Indigenous Rights and their Empowerment LC Project of the month, February 2023 LC Collaboration: LC Eberswalde (Germany) & LC FRI (India) Date of Event: 13th & 14th February 2023 Point of discussion: Role of indigenous communities in the forestry sector Objective: To spread awareness about [...]
Open call for delegation to the 18th UNFF session 2023 The Eighteenth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF18) will be held in New York from 8-12 May 2023. The Forum welcomes the participation of the nine major groups as identified in Chapter 23 of Agenda 21, [...]
OC Experience: IFSA Interim and Departments Meeting 2023 with IFSA LC UNHAS From The Resolute Heart to The Glorious Forest! International Night Picture. Photographed by A.Afiq Zakwan Madani (Undergraduate Student of Forestry Faculty of Universitas Hasanuddin). Location: Educational Forest of Universitas Hasanuddin. In the middle of the year [...]
Apply for the Young Leadership Programme - Mediterranean! The European Forest Institute’s Young Leadership Programme, Mediterranean 2023 (YLPMED 2023), organised in partnership with the Union for the Mediterranean, will provide an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay between land abandonment, Mediterranean forests, and cultural landscapes. This programme will equip [...]
Bimonthly Board Report February 2023General maintenance of the associationInterimDuring the first two weeks of February IFSA celebrated its interim 2023 and Department Meetings in Indonesia. We would like to congratulate the amazing work done by LC UNHAS, Hasanuddin University, without you none of this would have been possible to achieve. [...]
Development Fund Open Call - IFSS 2023 📣Calling IFSA members! Welcome to our IFSS Special of the IFSA Development Fund and guide for further Funding opportunities! The Development Fund is a part of the IFSA budget that is used to support IFSA members to engage with IFSA Activities. As part [...]
Calling for Tree Planting Volunteer Participants on “Nusantara ASRI Village Day”A Global Forestation Movement Initiated by the Ministry of Village, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration in Indonesia What is Nusantara ASRI Village Day?The Nusantara ASRI Village Day or what we called in Indonesian “Hari Desa Asri Nusantara” is an initiative forestation [...]
This 8 March, IFSA is excited to announce a second season of Webinar Series on Gender and Forestry 📣 After working on gender and forest education for over two years, publishing the IFSA Open Letter on Gender and Forest Education, raising awareness within and outside of IFSA, and connecting with [...]
Delegation Open Call to UNFF Special Events UNFF Special Event to celebrate the International Day of Forests Thematic focus: Forests and Health Date: Tuesday 21st March 2023, from 10:00 to 13:00 EST Location: CR 6, UN Headquarters, New York, USA Event description This year’s event will showcase how forests [...]
