Activities and events

From/To Units Title Location

2024-05-15

6.09.00

IUFRO webinar on digital teaching materials in forest sciences online
Contact: Mika Rekola, Email: mika.rekola@helsinki.fi
From/To Units Title Location

2024-01-23

6.09.00

IUFRO Webinar: AI in Forest Sciences Education online
Contact: Mika Rekola, Email: mika.rekola@helsinki.fi
From/To Units Title Location

2024-01-10

6.09.00

IUFRO Webinar: Introduction to Forest Sciences Textbooks online
Contact: Mika Rekola, Email: mika.rekola@helsinki.fi


Calendar of Meetings

Upcoming IUFRO meetings

IUFRO webinar on digital teaching materials in forest sciences; 15 May 2024, 3:00-4:00 pm UTC. Webinar homepage  


Past IUFRO meetings

  • IUFRO Webinar: AI in Forest Sciences Education; online; 23 January 2024, 2:30-3:30 pm UTC. Report
     
  • IUFRO Webinar: Introduction to Forest Sciences Textbooks; online; 10 January 2024, 2:30-3:30 pm UTC. Webinar link
     
  • Forest Education – Merging theory and practice with help of digital tools; online and Helsinki and Hyytiälä, Finland; 2-4 October 2023. Units involved: 6.09.00, Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education. Conference homepage - 1st announcement - Flyer - Report    
     
  • IFSA-JTF Scholarship Application Workshop; online; 25 February 2023, 2:00 pm UTC+0. Units involved: Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education, 6.09.00. Registration 
     
  • International Conference on Forest Education; Rome, Italy; 22-24 June 2021. Units involved: 6.09.00, Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education. Conference homepage  
     
  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: Digitalization in Higher Forest Education - Teaching and Learning Revisited; Sarajevo,  Bosnia and Herzegovina; 8-10 July 2020. 1st announcement  
     
  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: The Bologna Principles and Higher Forest Education – Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead; Tharandt, Germany; 19-21 June 2019. Units involved: 6.09.00, Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education. Conference homepage       
     
  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: Quality Management and Accreditation for study programmes in forest sciences and related disciplines; Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy; 27-29 June 2018. 3rd announcement  
     
  • 5th Asia-Pacific Forestry Education Conference - Globalization of Higher Forest Education in a Digital Era; Beijing, China; 27-28 March 2018. Call for abstracts 
     
  • SILVA Network annual conference: Forest Science Education: Forests for university education: examples and experiences; Prague, Czech Republic; 26-28 June 2017. Conference homepage1st announcement      
       
     
  • SILVA Network annual conference: Forest Science Education: Self-study and activation of the learner; Tartu, Estonia; 21-23 September 2016. Conference homepage1st announcement   
     
  • ICA - Edu Colloquium: "E-Learning in the life sciences: exploiting open source materials in the curriculum";  University of Helsinki, Finland; 16-17 June 2016. Units involved: 6.09.00, Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education. Colloquium homepage - 2nd Call
     
  • 11th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources; Stevens Point, WI, USA; 25-27 February 2016. Conference homepage   
     
  • SILVA Network Conference: Should all Forestry Students learn the same? Generalization versus Specialization; Vienna, Austria; 16–18 April 2015. Conference homepage1st announcement
     
  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: Practice orientation in forestry curricula in Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences; Bern, Switzerland; 13-15 August 2014. Units involved: 6.09.00, Task Force on Education in Forest Science. 1st announcement
     
  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: From teaching to learning – when will we take it seriously in forest sciences education?; Istanbul, Turkey; 1-3 November 2013. Units involved: 6.09.00, Task Force on Education in Forest Science. Programme - 2nd announcement - Report
     
  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: Do our students learn what they will need later? About expected learning outcomes and competences of graduates; Lleida, Spain; 22-25 November 2012. Units involved: Task Force on Education in Forest Science, 6.09.00. Conference homepage - 2nd announcement
     
  • III Taller sobre Educación Forestal en América Latina; Lima, Perú; 18 y 20 de octubre de 2011. Units involved: Task Force on Education, 6.09.00. Llamado - Programa
     
  • Competence development for forestry; Freiburg, Germany; 26 September - 1 October 2011. Units involved: 6.08.00, 6.09.00 9.01.03. Conference homepage - 1st announcement
     
  • Meeting multiple demands for forest information: New technologies in forest data gathering; Mount Gambier, Australia; 17-20 August 2009. Units 4.01.00, 4.02.03, 6.15.00, 3.01.00. Conference homepage

Meetings of interest

  • SILVA Network Annual Conference: Higher Forestry education in times of multiple crises: crises as framework conditions, topics, challenge and as a trigger for improvements; online and Dublin, Ireland; 28-30 June 2022. Units involved: 6.09.00, Joint IUFRO-IFSA Task Force on Forest Education. 1st announcement  
  • 12th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources; hosted by Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA; 8-10 March 2018. Conference homepage  
     
  • 2nd Webinar of the Educators' Forum; online; 15 February 2018. Webinar website 
     
  • 4th World Conference on Science and Technology Education (WorldSTE2013): Live Science, Love learning, Create Change; Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia; 29 September - 3 October 2013. Conference homepage