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🆕EFI Policy Brief: “3×3×2030 – Nine priorities for implementing the EU’s Forest Strategy”

📖 doi.org/10.36333/pb17
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🌳🌲💧Forests and water are deeply interconnected. With the increasing water-related risks in Europe, forests are vital to sustaining water quantity and quality and must be central to future resilience strategies.

Read more in our latest policy brief: doi.org/10.36333/pb16
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
🐝 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐇𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬

The BEEHive is a new online space for exchanging knowledge, resources and ideas on biodiversity footprinting and natural capital accounting.

Learn more and join a hub: circhive.eu/beehive
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Read the recap from our final Bigger Picture event of 2025 as we explored the topic of science communication with Welsh scientist, adventurer and film maker Huw James.

🔗 efi.int/news/every-s...
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join us at #COP30 in Belém, Brazil!

We are happy to invite you to the side-event “Building partnerships and solutions for deforestation-free value chains”!

📅 19 November 2025
📍 French Pavilion (Blue Zone), COP30, Belém, Brazil
⏰ 11:30
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You still have time to sign up for the webinar 'How horizon scanning shapes the forest bioeconomy' on 17 November at 14 CET.

Join to explore how horizon scanning can inform strategic management, develop research agendas, and guide scientific research.

Register here: forhorizonweb1.eventbrite.fi
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Do you know what the Genetic Conservation Unit (GCU) network is? If not, check out the latest addition to our "What is" series!

🔗 efi.int/sites/defaul...

@amfarsakoglou.bsky.social @euforgen.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) is an entry point for data, information and knowledge on European forests – gathered or derived through key forest-related policy drivers. EFI and @w-u-r.bsky.social have been working on updating the site!

🔗 Explore the website: forest.eea.europa.eu
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our new forest questions shares insights by Moses Kazungu and Marcel Hunziker from @wslresearch.bsky.social as they set out to ask what do people in 12 European countries think about forest restoration. The work was done within #SUPERB project.

🔗 efi.int/forestquesti...
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
What is genetic monitoring and is it important to forest(ry)?

As climate change and environmental pressures reshape our forests, understanding how tree populations adapt is more important than ever. This is where forest genetic monitoring comes in.

Read more: efi.int/forestquesti...
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
How do windstorms affect forests in Europe?

In the latest addition to our Key Questions on Forests series, @drtomlocatelli.bsky.social from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social explores the complex impacts of windstorms on forests.

🔗 efi.int/forestquesti...
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Join Huw James, Science Presenter, Adventurer and Content Creator from Wales, UK, as he explores how storytelling transforms research into resonance - bridging the gap between knowing and understanding.

📆19 November 2025
⏰ 10-11 am CET
📍online

www.eventbrite.fi/e/the-voice-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Are you a creative based in Europe? 🎨
Join the REWRITE + WILDCARD art initiative exploring #rewilding and renewal through art, photography, and film.

No experience needed — just creativity & vision.
Submit your work wildcard-project.eu/rewilding-th...

#OpenCall #ArtForNature #HorizonEurope
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📣EUFORE project just launched its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) setting out a long-term framework for research and innovation to strengthen the resilience, sustainability and multifunctionality of Europe’s forests and forest-based sector.

Download it here: doi.org/10.36333/rs12
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🌲 Forests and fresh perspectives – the Integrate Network convenes in the Irish North Atlantic!

👉 Read the latest feature on what makes this network unique – through the voices of its members: integratenetwork.org/2025/10/06/n...
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Our Scientific Seminar on 18 September in Prague explored the challenges facing forests, and looked at how we can navigate uncertainty, build resilience and guide policy responses.

Read more ⬇️

efi.int/news/forests...
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🎙️ The Bigger Picture – Part 2

AI & the Law: What You Need to Know

📅20 October 🕒 14-15 CET 💻 Zoom

Join us for a quick dive into the EU AI Act, IP rights, and data protection in AI.

Register now: www.eventbrite.fi/e/european-r...

#TheBiggerPictureAI #AIRegulation #EUAIAct
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Our Annual Conference 2025 has started in Prague today with a Members’ Dialogue session. Today is such a great opportunity for our member organisations' representatives and staff members to meet up! More photos in comments!
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Have you noticed that our "Key questions on forests" has a new section on Forests and monitoring?

Check it out here: efi.int/forestquesti...
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Ever wondered what 100,000 trees can tell us about Europe’s forests? #IntegrateNetwork has an interactive map with data from 270+ marteloscope sites in 27 countries with insights ranging from big-picture patterns down to the details of a single tree.

👉 integratenetwork.org/2025/09/03/n...
September 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
📣New publication! What are the perceptions of employers and recent graduates on the changing demands in forest sector employment? Read about the trends in employment of graduates from forest science programmes between 2000-2020, and up to 2030 in five countries.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
August 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🌳 How do we bring people closer to topics of #forest #management and #biodiversity? In Zurich, the answer is the so-called #Waldlabor – Switzerland’s first outdoor Forest Lab.

🔗 Read more: integratenetwork.org/2025/08/21/w...
August 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM