ForestPaths has been included in the latest edition of the OptFor-EU project newsletter. OptFor-EU is a Horizon Europe project building a Decision Support System to help forest managers optimise decarbonisation and other ecosystem services across European forest types. The newsletter featured three ForestPaths spotlights: the third episode of our ForestChats series, in which partner Dr. Florencia Franzini discusses how understanding decision-making...

ForestPaths partners took part in the EEA/JRC LULUCF workshop on 27-28 May in Copenhagen. The two-day event brought together researchers, modellers and policy experts from across Europe to exchange the latest advances in greenhouse gas reporting and forest carbon accounting.  ForestPaths was featured across several sessions: Gert-Jan Nabuurs (Wageningen University & Research) presented EFISCEN-Space results on forest biomass and soil carbon...

The fourth ForestPaths feature has been included in the May edition of the EFI Mediterranean Network News. The newsletter presents ten case studies from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East that showcase practical approaches to strengthening resilience in agricultural, forest, and agroforestry systems. Our latest feature, Effects of forest management on animal biodiversity in Europe and beyond, finds that forest management in Europe significantly...

ForestPaths project partners, namely Technical University of Munich and VITO, have released a suite of satellite-based map products covering forest disturbances, structure and tree genus composition across continental Europe. The datasets are publicly available on Zenodo and can be explored through dedicated web-mapping applications. Together, they provide a detailed picture of the state and recent...

Researchers, forestry professionals and 18 PhD students from 10 universities came together for an intensive week at the Euroleague of Life Sciences Universities International Summer School on Natural Disturbances and Restoration Activities in European Forests. The event was held May 10-16 and was co-organised by Wageningen University & Research and the University of Tuscia. The programme tackled pressing questions around forest adaptation to...

This fourth instalment of the ForestPaths Features series, which translates the project's research findings into concise, accessible summaries for policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders, focuses on the effects of forest management on animal biodiversity in Europe and beyond. Forests across Europe are under increasing pressure from commercial management, yet the consequences for animal biodiversity remain poorly understood at a policy-relevant...

In a new interview, Gloria Marzano (Prospex Institute) offers an overview of another key element of the project's stakeholder engagement work: the Policy Engagement Forum. The Policy Engagement Forum was designed as a complementary tool to the Policy Labs. While the Labs are in-person events with a defined group of participants, the Forum is intended to broaden the project's reach by drawing in a wider community of stakeholders through the project's...

Amelie Müller, PhD researcher and a ForestPaths project partner, has been awarded the Stans Award for Best PhD Paper 2025 by the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University. The award was given in recognition of her paper Time-explicit life cycle assessment: a flexible framework for coherent consideration of temporal dynamics. The paper addresses an important limitation of existing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods: their inability...

ForestPaths partners from the Technical University of Munich and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) collaborated with an international research team on a new study published in Science. The study looks at how disturbances such as wildfires, bark beetle outbreaks, and windstorms might change across European forests over the 21st century. The researchers developed a deep learning-based modeling framework, simulating disturbance patterns across...

ForestPaths partners met on 25–26 March 2026 in Joensuu, Finland, to prepare the project’s fourth and final Policy Lab (PL4), a key step toward developing recommendations for Europe’s forest and climate policies. The two-day meeting brought project partners both in person and online to align on the objectives, structure and expected outcomes of PL4, scheduled for October 2026.  Policy Labs are a central part of the ForestPaths process, designed...

The European Forest Institute has released a new brochure presenting aiphoria - an open-source modelling package for analysing wood-based systems and carbon flows, co-created by ForestPaths, MoniFun and eco2adapt. The brochure offers a clear and accessible overview of how aiphoria works, outlining its ability to track material flows from forest to final use, assess circularity pathways such as reuse and recycling and support carbon accounting....

The European Forest Institute has released a new policy brief on forest disturbance regimes across Europe, based on a study recently published in Science by researchers from the Technical University of Munich and EFI. The study used a deep learning framework to model future forest disturbance across Europe until 2100. Its projections show that disturbance rates - already at their highest level in at least 170 years in recent decades - could...