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Forests are crucial for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. As the future of forests is being charted, it is essential that European policy and management practices support and enhance this vital function. That is the objective the Horizon Europe projects ForestNavigator, ForestPaths and PathFinder have set for themselves, having embarked on a multi-year journey of research and collaboration. A new infographic,...

Members of the European scientific community came together in support of remote sensing technologies in forest monitoring in an open letter that was recently made public. Seventy-eight researchers and experts in the forestry field backed the document’s primary objective - to stress the importance of this type of solutions to the future of forest management and conservation in Europe. To the signatories, it is crucial that this fact is considered now...

The beginning of February 2025 saw the presentation of bw_timex, an open-source tool developed as part of the ForestPaths project, at an event by the Swiss Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Zurich. This edition was titled “The use of prospective LCA to support sustainability transitions”. It brought together experts for a deliberation on LCA as an important method for evaluating the factors shaping the transition from sourcing to...

Horizon Europe projects ForestPaths, ForestNavigator and PathFinder are collaborating once again to organise the next edition of their joint Forest Talks webinar series on 17 March 2025. The format brings together experts and professionals to uncover insights and approaches vital to the future of forest management and its role in addressing climate change.  Following the first webinar’s showcase on efforts to build up a European-wide Common...

In 2025, ForestPaths invites you to immerse yourself into the domain of forest research via a new medium - the ForestChats podcast. The series will explore outputs and findings surrounding the project, with expert interviews winding their way through the scientific results, technological innovations and policy pathways. All of this will familarise listeners with the core aim of ForestPaths – to help co-design a forward-oriented policy landscape...

This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.  21 November 2024 saw the most recent Policy Engagement Forum (PEF) activity organised by ForestPaths, an EU-funded project dedicated to co-designing forest-based policy pathways for Europe. The online event (a dedicated report on which will be published in the near future) was the result of efforts by the Prospex Institute, a member of the research consortium...

Last year, ForestPaths partners from the European Forest Institute (EFI) and the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) collaborated with the Finnish Forest Centre on a group interview with forest owners from the Nordic country. Held in conjunction with field visits in the Punkaharju region, the piece explored attitudes to forest management at a time when climate change challenges are making their presence increasingly felt. Forest owners Aulis,...

Between 11 and 12 February 2025, the city of Brussels will bring together a number of notable actors and stakeholders in the domain of forest research, policy and management for the 6th edition of the Forest Innovation Workshop and the Mid-Term Conference of the OptForEU research project. This joint undertaking has been titled: “Inform-Prioritise-Collaborate: Building a Sustainable Forest Future through Regional Cooperation and Innovation”. It will...

The next generation of forest disturbance maps, updated as part of the ForestPaths project, can now be accessed via the Horizon Results Platform. The online repository, instituted as part of the Commission’s Funding and Tenders Portal, has positioned itself as a focal point when it comes to sharing EU-funded research and its innovations. As such, it will help enhance the public visibility of this crucial output and ForestPaths in general by exposing...

As part of ForestPaths’s activities dedicated to the forestry industry in Europe, the open-source Python tool aiphoria was developed to allow a dynamic assessment and visualisation of wood material flows. Following its introduction in 2024, Cleo Orfanidou from the European Forest Institute sat down for an interview on the instrument as the researcher heading this endeavour. The conversation took place as part of the project’s annual general meeting...

Last month, ForestPaths partner from Teesside University Chidiebere Ofoegbu attended the sixteenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This significant global event brought together policymakers, scientists, practitioners and stakeholders to address pressing issues related to land degradation, desertification and sustainable land management. At the...

2024 saw the update of the European Forest Disturbance Atlas, introducing a new standard for forest monitoring. Alba Viana-Soto, a postdoctoral Earth Observation scientist at the Technical University of Munich and ForestPaths partner, was part of the team behind this crucial undertaking. At the project’s most recent annual general meeting in September 2024, she gave an interview on how the Atlas was improved and why it was...