EDUFOREST European Network of Forestry Training Centres 

What is EDUFOREST?

EDUFOREST is a network making purpose of international development and improvement of forestry training, which is deemed necessary to carry out tasks and operations in forestry.

Its activities are more specifically:

- Being a representative and a common voice of training centres in the European context (Eg. UNECE, FAO, ILO, European parliament, European Commission, ENFE, forest industry, forest owners, MCPFE, PEFC, FSC, and Ngo’s…).
- Anticipating and meet the challenges face by the training centres using strong relationships and synergies with the partners of forestry training at a European level.
- Anticipating the future trends and major challenges in the forestry development and adapting their future training on a European level.
- Lobbying in favour of forestry training issues.
- Developing, maintaining and updating the database of forestry training centres on Eduforest website.
- Opening this database to trainers, trainees and training centres.
- Disseminating the results of European programs to promoting their real use
- Offering a common internet platform to European forestry programmes
- Promoting partnerships.
- Openness, networking, cooperation and partnership.
- Promoting European certificates of competences.
- Disseminating any valuable information to training centres.
- Facilitating communication between training centres.
- Facilitating contacts
- Organizing the International Conference of Forestry Training Centres each 2 years.
- Improving and developing quality of training through the network.
- Building capacity and awareness for the demand of forestry training.
- Exchanging ideas, experience, knowledge, tools, methods and people.

Who are members?

So far, members of Eduforest network are:

- Forestry training providers.
- A health and safety authority on European National Level
- A representative body on European or transnational level active in one of the following activities:

• Forestry training providers.
• Forestry entrepreneurs.
• Green Jobs in the Forest Sector.

Next Conference

Each 2 years, Eduforest is organising an international conference of forestry training centres, each time in a different country. The previous conferences took place in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Spain.
The next one will be held in Belgium in 2019.
More about the latest conference...