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SOIL:OurInvisibleAlly - Facilitating implementation of EU soil legislation in Alpine municipalities, thus seizing transnational knowledge, mutual learning & concrete, cross-sectoral implementation on local level
SOIL addresses the issue of soil quality decline by bridging the gap between knowledge, legislation, and implementation of Sustainable Soil Management measures. By converting existing knowledge into applied solutions, it makes Sustainable Soil Management accessible, enabling stakeholders to learn and adopt these practices for better soil conservation.
Interreg
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.09.2024 - 31.08.2027
GROWTH: Growth potential and wood properties of selected tree species of various provenances: modification options, prospects and challenges in response to climate change
The project aims to link the entire forestry timber product chain from cradle to grave, with a particular focus on its application in construction. The foreseen project activities will seize the opportunities and promote sustainable and reliable construction by introducing new bio-based concepts with high material efficiency, low climate impact and improved functionality.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.07.2024 - 30.06.2027
Wildfire CE - Enabling cross-boundary assessment, communication and management of wildfire risks in Central Europe
The overall project objective is to enable border regions, the communities and landscapes within them, to prepare, respond & adapt to the increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change. It will broaden cross-border & crosssector implementation of risk management through raising awareness with policy-makers, land managers, communities, infrastructure providers and emergency responders. Through improved and harmonised forecasting and fire risk mapping across borders it will reduce the exposure to wildfire risk.
Interreg
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.06.2024 - 31.05.2027
RE-ENFORCE - Transnational Cooperation on nature-based solutions for restoring degraded forests of Central Europe
The main objective of the project is to facilitate the restoration of degraded forest ecosystems through naturebased solutions (NBS). The project aims to strengthen transnational cooperation to develop nature based forest restoration strategy, test NBS in Pilot Actions and integrate NBS into a web-based Decision Support System. The project outputs will help forest conservation managers, policymakers, and resource planners to allocate resources better and implement NBS for restoring degraded forest habitats.
Interreg
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.06.2024 - 31.05.2027
FoRESisT - Conservation and Evaluation of Forest and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Cross-Border Area
The objective of the FoRESisT project is to improve the conservation status of habitats, support biodiversity, and evaluate ecosystem services, particularly in relation to forests, agricultural, and freshwater habitats. The project will involve extensive activities to protect forest and agricultural ecosystems in the area of Opatija (in Dobreć), on the island of Krk, and in the Karst region.
Interreg
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.03.2024 - 31.08.2026
In the forest as in the classroom
The primary goal of the project is to train preschool and elementary school teachers to implement forest pedagogy. The Slovenian Forestry Institute will contribute together with the leading partner 'Model Forest Istra' to the development of forest pedagogy in Croatia. This will be achieved primarily through the education of professionals and employees in partner organizations.
Erasmus+
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 15.02.2024 - 15.03.2025
EIP 16.5 project – Water elements in farmland
The core aim of the project is to raise awareness and train stakeholders – farm owners, the wider and/or narrower professional and general public - to acquire key knowledge, experience and skills for the long-term sustainable conservation and restoration of biodiversity and better use of the ecosystem functions and services of water bodies as an element or a landscape feature of the agricultural landscape.
Rural development programme
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.02.2024 - 01.02.2027
Fem2forests - Innovative pathways for efficient involvement of girls and young women in the forestry sector
With this project, we want to contribute to strengthening the forestry sector in the Danube region at local, regional and international level by involving young women and girls to a greater extent. The project involves 15 partners from 9 countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine), with the Slovenian Forestry Institute as the lead partner.
Interreg
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 30.06.2026
FruitDiv – Exploiting the untapped potential of fruit tree wild diversity for sustainable agriculture
FruitDiv project will explore the potential of fruit tree Crop wild relatives (CWR) for Sustainable Agriculture. FruitDiv aims to monitor, characterise, use, and conserve the diversity of fruit tree CWR, with a particular emphasis on pome (Malus, Pyrus) and stone (Prunus) fruits.
Horizon Europe
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2028
TRANSFORMIT - Transforming Forest Management for multiple ecosystem services and nature conservation via the Integrative approach
The aim of the project is to improve and showcase the effectiveness of Integrative Forest Management as a viable pathway for merging biodiversity conservation and societal demands. By integrating both practical and scientific knowledge, we will stipulate collaboration, mutual learning and new synergies amongst science, policy, and practice.
Horizon Europe
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2027
Non-native tree species – adaptability, potential and risk evaluation (Introspeces)
Douglas fir is one of the most important introduced species in southern and central Europe. Douglas-fir shows best results in the mountain belt in the zone of beech and oak forests, but such habitats have recently been significantly threatened by climate change. Research on adaptability in such forests will shed light on the adaptability of Douglas fir of unknown origin.
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2025
Future wood properties in pine and oak in Central Europe (J4-50130)
The main objective of the project is to evaluate the effects of changing environmental conditions on productivity, but also on structural, physical and mechanical properties of pine and oak species adapted to temperate (i.e. Pinus sylvestris L. and Quercus robur L.) and sub-Mediterranean growing conditions (i.e. Pinus nigra J. F. Arnold and Quercus pubescens Willd) at different sites in Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
ARIS
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.11.2023 - 31.10.2026
Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia - SPOZNAJ
The project will greatly accelerate the adoption of open science practices among project partners and make a substantial contribution to the digital transformation of scientific research. Partners will collaborate to share knowledge and experiences related to implementing open science principles and disseminate them to public infrastructure institutes (IZUM, ARNES), public agencies (ARIS, NAKVIS), privately owned higher education and research institutes, researchers and experts from the commercial sector, private researchers, and the broader interested public.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Management
Duration: 02.08.2023 - 30.06.2026
Optimizing the relationship between sustainability and timber quality in European forests: quantifying the effect of close-to-nature silviculture on wood properties (ForQual)
Close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) is becoming more and more important, as it can maintain forest carbon stock and produce an annual yield of timber at the same time. However, relatively little is known of the effect this type of forest management can have on timber quality. The overall objective of this project aims to address this gap by studying the relationship between CNS and timber quality by examining it at three different levels.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 15.06.2023 - 30.06.2026
Evaluating the impact of precipitation interception on erosion
The main objective of the project is to build on the knowledge of interception of rainfall by different vegetation types and the impact of interception on rainfall erosivity based on high frequency measurements on existing research plots.
ARIS
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2026
Cooperation to strengthen the performance of project offices (SKUPP)
The SKUPP project aims to strengthen the competences of the consortium of project offices and researchers at our institutes through the organisation of numerous events, networking between partners, with external stakeholders and other consortia, and with new jobs in project offices. The aim of the SKUPP consortium is to strengthen the supporting environment of project offices in public research organisations and to increase performance in centralised EU programmes during the application, implementation and reporting phases, which will contribute to the wider reputation and visibility of our institutes and, in the long term, to a greater reputation in the international environment.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Management
Duration: 14.04.2023 - 30.06.2026
GIFT - Green Infrastructure for Forest and Trees
The Green Infrastructure for Forest and Trees (GIFT) Project, funded by the Interreg Europe financial mechanism, represents a collaborative effort involving 10 partner institutions from 9 European countries. The project aims to empower and involve the crucial role of green infrastructure, particularly forests and trees, in contemporary regional and urban development, environmental and biodiversity conservation, agricultural, landscape, forestry and other legislation and strategies.
Interreg
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.03.2023 - 31.05.2027
FOREST4EU – European innovation partnership network promoting operational group dedicated to forestry and agroforestry
FOREST4EU is a Horizon Europe project aiming at connecting existing Operational Groups (OGs) from different countries around Europe, to favour the transfer of knowledge and best practices between experts in this field. The main goal is to develop a European multi-actor network to promote and disseminate best practices related to the innovation of national forest and agroforestry among EU countries.
Horizon Europe
Department for forest Technique and Economics
Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
OptFORESTS
OptFORESTS, a Horizon Europe project financed by the EU, will support the protection and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe, by increasing cooperation and knowledge sharing to foster adaptation to climate change and biodiversity-supporting practices in forestry. The project will generate research outputs supporting the choice of more diverse FRM adapted to future climates, and inform assisted gene flow and migration, foster the sustainable use, adaptation and resilience of naturally-regenerated forests, develop methods to expand and diversify nursery production, analyse and develop nature-based solutions, tools and new cultural trajectories and demonstrate biodiversity restoration solutions for degraded forest ecosystems.
Horizon Europe
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.11.2022 - 31.10.2027
Natural regeneration processes in beech forests after disturbance
This bilateral project is built upon the complementary expertise of the researchers from Slovenia and the Czech Republic and uses the existing experimental settings in Slovenia. The main objective of this project is to define the roles of mycorrhizal fungi, saprotrophic fungi and bacteria in forest soils with the aid of experiments that manipulate their relative abundances by cutting trees.
ARIS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.11.2022 - 31.10.2025