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 [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees – Opeyemi Hi IFSA world! My name is Opeyemi Adeyemi, a Nigerian. I recently completed my doctoral degree in Forest Science (socio-ecological systems) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. I have a master’s degree in Sustainable Environmental Management from the University of Greenwich, [...]
Research, practice and perspectives on integrated forest management and urban foresty - Contributions by young researchers and practitioners Vera Knill one of the Dare to Explore! trainees, is currently working with the EFI Urban forestry team. Read her account of an exciting session showcasing the work of young [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees – Vera Hi IFSA world! My name is Vera and I am currently finishing my MSc in Sustainable Resource Management at Technical University Munich, where I am focusing on management and protection of forest ecosystems. My background is in ecotourism. Before I [...]
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 [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees - Hiromi Get to know Hiromi Waragai from Japan, who is currently a remote trainee at IUFRO HQ in Vienna, Austria. Who are you? I am Hiromi, a third-year undergraduate student studying forest economics at Hokkaido University in Japan. [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees - Junaid Happy to introduce to you Junaid Peters from South Africa, whos is currently doing a remote traineeship with IUFRO headquarters in Vienna: Who are you? My name is Junaid Peters. I had recently graduated with my Bachelor’s Degree in Forest [...]
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 [...]
Promoting Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ (IPLC) ownership over traditional knowledge is essential to upholding rights and building resilience in the face of increasingly complex and intense environmental problems. But exploitative appropriation of traditional knowledge remains pervasive, in part due to the lack of comprehensive, multi-level, participatory governance frameworks. But pathways [...]
Caros amigos do IFSA, I am Rodrigo, a Brazilian student doing the master’s program in European Forestry at the University of Eastern Finland (Finland) and Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania). At the end of October, I completed my Dare to Explore! Traineeship (DTE) at the International Union of Forest Research [...]
Meet Fredy, our final trainee for the year 2019. He has just started his traineeship on the rewilding of forests at the EFI office in Bonn. Can you give us a short introduction about yourself ? Hola Amigos/as de IFSA! I am Fredy Polo, a Peruvian student of the [...]
Here it is the interview to the third trainee, Damiano, who has just started his traineeship at the EFI Bonn office. Who are you? Ciao a tutti! My name is Damiano and I am from Florence, Italy. I am currently finishing my Master’s degree in Forestry Sciences at the University [...]
The EFI-IFSA-IUFRO project team is looking for highly motivated individuals, with a passion for forest employment and education in their home country and beyond. On the 18th and 19th of November 2019 the project team will host an expert workshop at the EFI office in Bonn. Experts on forest sector [...]
