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Hi IFSA world! I am Doctor Tshego, from Witbank, a town in north eastern South Africa. I study forestry to dive into sustainable resource management and mainly contribute to global and national level management and global strategy. I have an interest in pursuing a master's degree in tropical forestry [...]
Open call for Dare to Explore! traineeships The European Forest Institute (EFI), the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) are collaborating in a joint capacity development project on global student networking and green jobs in the forest sector. The Dare to [...]
Dare to Explore! Experience: The potential of woody biomass and new ideas for a professional career I´m Ajdin Starčević from Bosnia and Herzegovina. From February to April, I have been a Dare to Explore! Trainee with CIFOR in Bonn, Germany. The scope of the traineeship was to assess the [...]
Dare to Explore! Experience: Towards The Same Goal, Beyond The Time Difference I am Hiromi Waragai, a student doing the Bachelor’s program in Forest Science at Hokkaido University in Japan. Since the beginning of February, I have been working as a Dare to Explore! trainee remotely at International Union [...]
Would you like to be part of a digital IFSA delegation and/or volunteer in the organizing team at an international forestry event on Non-timber forest products? Are you interested in communications, social media coverage of a conference, language support, or technology-based problem-solving? Then this open call may hold several [...]
Global Forest Resources Assessments To tackle climate change and deforestation, people need transparent and accurate information on the world's forests. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released an open data platform containing a wealth of information on forest resources in all six official UN languages. Launched in English in [...]
Are you a young talent in the field of peatlands, mangroves, or aquatic & wetland ecosystem restoration? Work with FAO and apply your knowledge while developing your skills in an international context. FAO internship programme is now open! French, Bahasa Indonesia or Spanish native speakers are especially encouraged to [...]
alpas – Forestry Beyond Borders Over the Horizon and Beyond the Borders. Together, let’s break free and explore the boundless opportunities in the world of Forestry! The Association of Filipino Forestry Students-UPLB invites you to the very first IFSA Awareness Webinar with the theme “ALPAS: Forestry Beyond Borders”, happening [...]
Taking Stock of Global Capacity for Ecosystem Restoration : The deadline to complete the survey has been extended to 30 April! To prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2021-2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. When the strategy guiding this UN [...]
Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector - One year in numbers "Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” is a two-year project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) financed by the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency [...]
Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement: the second edition of the massive online open courses 50 IFSA students have the opportunity to join the second edition of the Massive online open courses (MOOC) - Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement, from 24 May to 11 June 2021. [...]
Developing research to support decision making: My experience as EFI´s trainee By: Fredy David Polo Villanueva Jr. Researcher at the European Forest Institute (EFI) Doctoral Candidate at the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) Fredy Polo is a Peruvian forester and IFSA member who started his career managing forest [...]
ELearning course - Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement The objective of this course is to learn about the Enhanced Transparency Framework (EFT) under the Paris Agreement. It will be useful to those wishing to understand the importance of forest-related data collection, analysis, and dissemination in meeting the Enhanced [...]
Boosting transparency of forest data Recently FAO hold the webinar “Forest data for climate action: the importance of legal and institutional frameworks” Forests, and forest monitoring, in particular, are critical to ensuring that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals within the framework of the Paris Agreement. A robust [...]
[Open Call] Regional Meetings OC 2022 Dear IFSA World! Would you like to host your region’s next Regional Meeting? A new opportunity is here: you can now apply to become the 2022 host and Organizing Committee (OC) of your respective Regional Meeting! With the Online Regional Meetings just a [...]
