News - Slovenian Forestry Institute

International Conference on Equality and Diversity in Forestry, Slovenia

The two-day international conference entitled "Equality and Diversity in Forestry: Changing the Image of Forestry" brought together forestry experts, researchers and everyone involved with the forest ...

16 Oct

Kick-off meeting Soil:OurInvisibleAlly

On Thursday and Friday, October 10 and 11, 2024, Slovenian Forestry Institute hosted kick-off meeting for our new international project Soil:OurInvisibleAlly (2024-2027), under the Interreg Alpine ...

29 Apr

Invitation for summer school on Scientific Writing, Reviewing and publishing 2024

Call for participants 29 July – 2 August 2024 Logarska dolina, Slovenia The 12th Summer School on Scientific Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing: “The untapped potential of forest ...

9 Apr

International Summer School - Climate-Friendly Agricultural Practices

As part of the LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project, the Slovenian Forestry Institute is hosting an international summer school entitled "Climate-friendly agricultural practices". Date: July 15 - July ...

19 Feb

INSECTS PESTS AND URBAN TREE HEALTH: current challenges and solutions

COST Action CA20132 “UrbanTreeGuard” Training school Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-30, 2024 Urban trees provide essential ecosystem services, including temperature regulation, cultural and ...

Mar 2023

Apply for the Young Researcher Positions 2023

The Slovenian Forestry Institute is looking for ambitious candidates for young researchers that will start their doctoral training programs with their selected supervisor in 2023. The research ...

Dec 2022

OptFORESTS, a new Horizon Europe project to enhance diversity and resilience of future European forests

The 5-year project aims to support the protection and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe in the face of environmental and societal challenges. Faced with the challenges posed to ...

Nov 2022

A Novel EU Project Provides Forest Information for Europe’s Roadmap Towards Climate Neutrality

A better monitoring of Europe’s forest will help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. - Our overall aim is to aid Europe’s transition to a climate-neutral and resilient society ...

Aug 2022

16th European Forest Pedagogics Congress

This year, we set off on a trip to Switzerland to meet like-minded people again and make plans for positive changes in forest pedagogy. We went on the trip together with colleagues from the Slovenian ...

Jul 2022

International forestry summer school Slovenia

International forestry summer school is inviting students of forestry and forestry-related students! As part of the LIFE-IP CARE4CLIMATE project, the Slovenian Forestry Institute is organizing an ...

Oct 2021

ALPTREES 15th Steering group meeting

In the second half of September, more precisely on 22nd and 23rd September, we hosted the project partners of the Alptrees Interreg Alpine space project at the institute. We met at the 15th meeting of ...

Feb 2021

The State of Europe’s Forests 2020 (SoEF 2020)

The area of forests in Europe1 has increased by 9% over the last 30 years. At 227 million ha of forests, more than one-third of Europe’s land surface is forested. About three-quarters of the net ...

Jul 2020

Special Issue "Impact of Climate Change and Globalisation on Endemic and Emerging Forest Diseases"

Welcome to Special Issue of Forests "Impact of Climate Change and Globalisation on Endemic and Emerging Forest Diseases". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Forest_Diseases

Jun 2020

Setting up experimental plots of project LIFE SySTEMiC

Project collaborators started to pinpoint exact location of of LIFE SySTEMiC research plots at sites, previously determined from remote sensing and forest stand data. During first stage, location of ...

Apr 2019

Monitoring of carbon balance in the karst grasslands

In order to provide a basis for large-scale monitoring of carbon balance in the karst grasslands in south-west Slovenia, the present study combined eddy covariance and meteorological data to various ...

Feb 2018

The start of the EU project "CirculAlps"

On February 6, 2018, a kick-off meeting of the CirculAlps project took a place in the Kuchl University campus in Kuchl-Salzburg, Austria. The project is promoting the circular economy and the ...

Mar 2017

“Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest” continues its journey across our country

“Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest” continues its journey across our country. “Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest” was published by Slovenian Forestry Institute. Handbook ...

Jul 2016

Launch of the LIFE ARTEMIS project

IFE project ARTEMIS on Awareness Raising, Training and Measures on Invasive alien Species in forests started this week. The project is lead by dr. Maarten de Groot from Slovenian Forestry Institute in ...

Mar 2016

Forest physiology and genetics goes Airborne!

A pair of forestry researchers pull up in their vehicle at a convenient spot near their sampling area. They unload their equipment and launch a remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) that ...

Aug 2015

2015 - The International Year of Soils

2015 - The International Year of Soils and World Soil Day (5th of December) On 20th December 2013 United Nation General Assembly decides to designate 5th December as World Soil Day and to declare ...