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.

ForestNavigator, a sister project of Forest Paths, will host a session at the 2025 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2025). The event, which will take place between 27 April and 2 May in Vienna, brings together specialists in all disciplines of the Earth as well as planetary and space sciences. The forum’s aim is allowing specialists to present their work and exchange ideas in fruitful discussions. "Advances in Forest...

In December 2024, the fifth edition of the public webinar series of the FORGENIUS project will take place. Funded under the Horizon 2020 scheme, FORGENIUS’ primary goal lies in improving access to forest genetic resources information and services for end-users. Via innovative technologies and interdisciplinary knowledge, the project is working to improve the quality of genetic conservation across Europe. FORGENIUS’ public webinars are meant to...

November 2024 saw the INTERCEDE project’s first stakeholder forum in the city of Brussels and featured a presentation by ForestPaths WP1 lead Professor Diana Feliciano from Teesside University. The initial instalment of the Transdisciplinary Forum (TDF) format brings researchers and end-users together in an attempt to enable a knowledge exchange benefitting the future of forests. Professor Feliciano’s presentation covered the importance of a transdisciplinary...

Thomas Pugh, senior lecturer at Lund University and ForestPaths partner, presented some crucial outputs from the project at a recent workshop organised by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Founded in 1980, this international organisation has been at the forefront when it comes to the advancement of climate science. A testament to this is the WCRP’s provision of vital research data in the context of crucial global pacts like the Paris Agreement,...

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...

The latest edition of the newsletter penned by the European Forest Institute’s Mediterranean Facility (EFIMED) is out, with ForestPaths once again in the spotlight on its pages. Among the Facility’s most recent insights into the world of agroforestry, the project’s line-up of key events for fall 2024 was featured. More specifically, a section was dedicated to the ForestPaths Policy Lab that took place in September 2024 and fostered a discussion...

This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.   To support its objective of advancing forest management practices in Europe with a focus on climate and biodiversity, the EU-funded ForestPaths project has published a new feature examining the current landscape of policies in the sector. At a time when both environmental challenges and the measures addressing them are growing in scope and complexity,...

ForestPaths researchers from Leiden University and VITO joined a multi-institutional team to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of magnesium phosphate cement (MPC) made using recycled materials from the steelmaking industry. The study, titled “Life cycle assessment of the climate change impact of magnesium phosphate cements formulated with tundish deskulling waste compared to conventional cement,” was published in the journal Sustainable Chemistry...

MoniFun, a fellow project financed via the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, has set out to establish a network of actors involved or interested in the forestry sector. This effort is complementary to the initiative’s core objective - crafting a blueprint for a comprehensive European Forest Multifunctionality Monitoring System (EFMMS). This framework is meant to ultimately help tackle the stress factors affecting Europe’s forests as a result of climate...