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  • Annual meeting on November 30th and December 1st-2nd 2021: it will take place “face to face” and “online” in Agripolis (map). The three main objectives of the meeting are: 1) to verify the implementation of the project, 2) to agree on the training activity of the ESRs, 3) to know the ESRs and introduce the supervisors.
  • Webinars on December 1st, 2021: within the annual meeting we organized three webinars as a part of our training activities. A vision on the networking in EU forest and wood industry, the importance on how disseminate and comunicate the research results and a vision on sustainable forest operations are the three topics. Here you find the leaflet of the webinars
  • Training activities 2022: a first draft of the planning activities has been defined according to the Skill-For.Action proposal s4a_training_first_year_drafted
  • Training activities (WEBINAR) on Jannuary 14th 2022 at 9.00: Webinar on Forest Dynamics – from understanding to utilisation. The main topics will be “Principles of forest dynamics and its utilisation in forest management” (Pretzsch and Uhl, TUM) and “Dynamics of strictly protected forests using Białowieża Strict Reserve (NE Poland) as an example” (Bogdan Brzeziecki and Kamil Bielak, SGGW) and “Effect of ungulates on forest dynamics using Polanow Forest District (NW Poland)” (Tomasz Kurek, PFD). You can access to the zoom link to the moodle platform
  • The ETN Skill-For.Action media channel is activated, here you find the webinar playlist – link –
  • Applied workshop on LiDAR tecnologies and Carbon cycle will held in Spain in the week from March 7th to March 11th
  • Workshop and field visit on forest certification schemes, due diligence and reforestation project by ETIFOR in Italy on December 12th and 13th, 2022
  • Second annual meeting in Freising (Germany) hosted by TUM on December 14th-16th, 2023 – here the recorded lectures on: Synergies and trade-offs between forest adaptation and mitigation (Prof. Roberto Tognetti – Full professor on Forest Ecology and Management at the University of Molise – Italy) and What could the Circular Bioeconomy mean for the forestry? (PhD  Diana Tuomasjukka Head of Bioeconomy Programme of the European Forest Institute) – link –
  • Applied training courses on UAV, SfM and TLS for forest resource assessment by SCIMOND in Freising on December 16th-17th and December 19th-20th
  • Training activities 2023-2024: the Agenda of the training activities has been defined according to the ETN Skill-For.Action proposal – link –

Who we are

A group of 10 academic partners and 12 non-academic partners working together for a contamination of “ideas” between the domains of forest growth and forest operating efficiency

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Do you know that in several European countries the revenue coming from timber production is often less than the respective harvesting costs? 📉 This is mainly due to the difficult working conditions in which forest operations take place. An example is the mountain areas where the steep slope conditions, adverse weather conditions and close-to-nature forest management regime greatly reduce the harvesting productivity.🌲 🌳 Did you know that uneven-aged forestry can lead to more sustainable forest resource usage and continuous ecosystem service provision? By forming structurally diverse stands, we can achieve a higher level of forest stability, which is crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems. The research topic of the Earlier Stage Research Mihail Bacescu (@tesaf.unipd @unipd) of the ETN Skill-For.Action project is the evaluation and measurement of the fuel consumed by the machines that perform forest harvesting operation. The estimation of macchine efficiency in terms of CO2 emissions is a key element to understand how to reduce the negative impacts for ensuring a higher level of sustainability management of forest. Planning the ESRs secondments @stellenboschuni and @yorktimbers, a great opportunity to apply innovative methodology and tecnologie in forest plantations. Disturbances from biotic (insects, fungi, viruses and bacteria) and abiotic (wind, heavy-snow, drought, fire) have increased in Europe’s forests throughout the last decades. The 2023 training activity od the ETN SkillForAction has ended with this week. 📌 The ETN Skill-For.Action Project has reached its second annual hybrid meeting organized in Freising in Germany with the support of the School of Life Sciences of the Technical University of Munich. How to analyze raw forest machine data acquired by telemetry? And how to analyze machine efficiency in difficult terrain? Mihail Bacescu (UNIPD) and Filippo Guerra (FBZ) early stage researchers has been working in synergy at the University of Padova learning in the use of machine acquisition systems and data telemetry. 👀 Gaming? ... not really 🙂!

Contacts

Project coordinator: TESAF Department, Università degli Studi di Padova ITALY

E-mail: skillforaction.tesaf@unipd.it

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EU – Horizon 2020

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Grant Agreement 936355