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The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU has recently announced a new vacancy for a forestry sector expert at its headquarters in Ispra, Italy. More specifically, the position is of a scientific project officer within the Land Resources & Supply Chain Assessments Unit of the Sustainable Resources Directorate. It is the primary objective of the Unit to accumulate scientific data supporting policy-making in the field of sustainable natural resource...

A crucial dimension of the research undertaken in ForestPaths is mapping the effects of different types of forest management on biodiversity. The intricacies of this process were laid out in a recent interview with Hanneke van ‘t Veen, researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and ForestPaths partner. The conversation took place during the project’s annual consortium meeting in September 2024.  The interview...

Less than a year ago, aiphoria emerged as a new tool for dynamic wood material flow assessment and visualisation that was developed in conjunction with the ForestPaths project. Since then, its developers at the European Forest Institute and VITO have been working to improve upon the original design. This all feeds into aiphoria’s core objective of providing accessible, comprehensive and reliable data on wood and its carbon storage potential as...

ForestPaths marked the onset of 2025 with the fifth edition of its newsletter, which contains all notable project-related updates, milestones and developments from the past six months. Here are the highlights: ForestPaths' Annual General Meeting in Italy last autumn; the Policy Engagement Forum the project organised in November 2024; the launch of the ForestChats podcast; our latest project videos - highlights from 2024 and interviews...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From all of us at the ForestPaths project, we wish you warmth and joy for the winter holidays and a 2025 filled with sustainable choices! 

2024 marked another 12 months of successful collaborations and insightful outputs for ForestPaths. Watch the video below to find out about the research developments, technological innovations and stakeholder events that the project was involved with over the past year.

Following its roll-out on the EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo platforms, the most recent press release of ForestPaths has now been published by WIT News as well. This has once again placed the project’s new policy brief and the third output in the ForestPaths Features series in the spotlight. As previously reported, the document provides a comprehensive overview surrounding the effects of climate and biodiversity policies on forests and wood use in Europe. WIT...

A call for grants has recently been made public by fellow EU-funded research project FORWARDS. The call targets activities related to charting the disturbances apparent in European forests.  This latest opportunity relates to the project’s stated aim to develop the ForestWard Observatory, which will serve as a resource hub for decision-makers as they seek better understanding of the effects forests can have on climate change. Naturally, any...