ForestPaths marks its fourth anniversary on 1 September 2026. Over the past four years, the project has worked to develop policy pathways that help European forests advance climate, biodiversity, and ecosystem goals. Here, you can read about what the team accomplished this past year. We begin with the project's recent key achievements: The ForestPaths European tree genus map became available as an open, early-access dataset The third Policy...

A study involving ForestPaths researchers, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution looks at how forest disturbances - like storms, fires, and insect outbreaks - shape habitat conditions for Europe's large herbivores. The research team combined GPS tracking data from 3,069 animals (European bison, moose, red deer and roe deer) with satellite-based maps covering nearly four decades of forest disturbance across the continent. This allowed them...

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is expanding its bioeconomy team with three new positions aimed at strengthening the data and evidence base behind EU bioeconomy policy. The roles will support multidisciplinary research feeding into political discussions on the sustainability of bioeconomy-related policies. Open positions: Scientific Project Officer – Biomass Supply and Demand in EU Lead Markets (deadline for application:...

On June 11, ForestPaths partners Amelie Müller and Timo Diepers presented the bw_timex package and the time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment methodology developed within ForestPaths at an online webinar organised by the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) subgroup of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE). The webinar introduced a new framework that accounts for both the timing of processes and the changing conditions under...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In a new ForestPaths explainer video, Clint Richards offers insight into an important element of our policy engagement work: the Policy Labs. The Policy Labs are a series of four flagship events, held approximately once a year, designed to bring a broad range of stakeholders into active dialogue with the project. Each lab builds on the previous one: the first focused on identifying challenges and opportunities, the second on developing a shared...

Der Spiegel, one of Europe’s largest weekly news magazines, recently published a data journalism piece drawing on ForestPaths research. The article is based on data from the European Forest Disturbance Atlas (EFDA), developed by project partner Technical University of Munich (TUM). The EFDA is a tool that uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to monitor and understand forest disturbances across Europe. It covers 38 European countries...