News - Slovenian Forestry Institute

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 ...

Aug 2015

AGRA 2015

Slovenian Forestry Institute is on the list of exhibitors of the 53rd International Fair Of Agriculture And Food in Gornja Radgona (SLO). Visit us in the hall "A" between 22nd and 27th of August, ...

Apr 2015

2nd Natural Science Day at SFI

The Slovenian Forestry Institute has hosted the pupils from the 5th grade at Šmartno primary school in order to promote, educate and raise awareness on the topics related to forestry, forest ...

Mar 2015

IFSA Winter Meeting 2015 at Slovenian Forestry Institute

On Wednesday, 11th of March 2015, a series of project presentations and workshops titled »IFSA Winter Meeting 2015 at Slovenian Forestry Institute« was held by the Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) ...

Mar 2015

Forest's Ecosystem Sevices: Their Economic Value and the Pitfalls That May Follow

On Monday, 9th of March 2015, Anže Japelj from the Slovenian Forestry Institute gave a talk on Forest Ecosystem Services titled: "Forest's Ecosystem Services: Their Economic Value and the Pitfalls ...

Oct 2014

Symposium: "Horticulture - the possibilities, opportunities and best practices on the topic of TREES, OUR WEALTH"

On Wednesday, 15th October 2014, a professional symposium titled: "Horticulture - the possibilities, opportunities and best practices on the topic of TREES, OUR WEALTH" was held at the School for ...

Sep 2014

Workshop: "Determining the Measures for Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources"

On Thursday 25 September a workshop titled "Determining the Measures for Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources" was held by the Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) in collaboration with the Slovenia ...

Sep 2014

Excellence in Science 2013 - Presentation of Achievements in Biotechnical Research" as part of the European Researchers’ Night

On Friday 26 September 2014 a presentation of scientific achievements in 2013 titled "Excellence in Science 2013 - Presentation of Achievements in Biotechnical Research" as part of the European ...

Jun 2014

Airborne Laser Scanning in Forestry

Airborne Laser Scanning ALS is a remote sensing method that is being used in different spatial sciences. It is becoming more and more interesting also in Forestry. In forestry, ALS can be used for ...

Jun 2014

The final conference of the International LIFE + project EMoNFUr "Urban forests - the lungs of cities"

The final conference of the International LIFE + project EMoNFUr (www.emonfur.eu) entitled "Urban forests - the lungs of cities" was held in Milan on the 17th of June 2014. In the course of a ...

Jun 2014

Excange of experts in Germany – »Storms in forests«

With the aim to maximize the success of recent ice storm sanitation foresters from different institutions, have participated in the field trip, which took place in Germany in Baden – Wurttemberg. Most ...

May 2014

LIFEGENMON – LIFE for EUROPEAN FOREST GENETIC MONITORING SYSTEM

LIFEGENMON combines efforts of 6 partners from 3 countries/states (Germany/Bavaria, Greece and Slovenia), and shall last from July 2014 till June 2020. The total finances are 5.484.162 M€, from which ...

Apr 2014

The project EMoNFUr was presented on the program "Encounters"

Date of publication: 09 April 2014 blog.emonfur.eu/2014/04/08/il-progetto-emonfur-si-presenta-nella-trasmissione-incontri/ (in Italian)

Feb 2014

Monitoring of ambient air quality (film)

During the last 10 years our ambient air quality monitoring was a part of many national and international research projects. In our research sites all over the country we use passive/diffusive ...

Feb 2014

Sleet in Slovenia on February 2014 (film)

Short film about sleet on Zaplana area, Slovenia on February 2014. It shows weather conditions and devastating impacts of sleet on forests as well as on infrastructure. With the author's ...

Feb 2014

Sleet damage estimation in forests with unnmaned aircraft

With cooperation of Slovenian company C-ASTRAL Ltd. researchers of the Slovenian Forestry Institute used a small unmanned airplane to estimate damages in forests after devastating sleet. With the ...

Jan 2014

SIMWOOD - Sustainable, innovative forest use for Europe

Munich – Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation especially in privately owned woods falls short of its potential. The ever-increasing demand for wood for ...

Sep 2013

Workshop on forest monitoring

Slovenian Forestry Institute organized a workshop networking two LIFE + projects EMoNFUr and MANFOR C.BD and Public Forestry Service task. Its purpose was the presentation of contents and workflows of ...

Aug 2013

Life, Environmental and Geo Sciences Committee Opinion Paper

LEGS_Careers_OpinionPaper_FIN.pdf

Apr 2013

Expert meeting on the Role of wood and biomass in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions

Expert meeting on the Role of wood and biomass in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions. The meeting was organized by the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry and the Slovenian Forestry Institute. More ...