News - Slovenian Forestry Institute

Integrating forest genetic resources into public education

FORGENIUS brought science related to forest genetic resources into the everyday learning of 10–12-year-old schoolchildren in Finland and Slovenia. Within the FORGENIUS H2020 project, funded by the EU, which studies genetic diversity of European ...

Nov 2025

Eyes on the Forest soils: from pioneering soil monitoring at the Slovenian Forestry Institute to the first European soil law

At the Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI), monitoring of the forest soils and processes in them has been one of the fundamental threads of our scientific research since its establishment. As early as 1957, a laboratory was established within the ...

Mar 2025

Apply for the Young Researcher Positions 2025

The Slovenian Forestry Institute is looking for ambitious candidates for young researchers that will start their doctoral training programs with their selected supervisor in 2025. The research areas: Intra-annual agreement and synchrony ...

Nov 2024

International Conference on Equality and Diversity in Forestry, Slovenia

The two-day international conference entitled "Equality and Diversity in Forestry: Changing the Image of Forestry" brought together forestry experts, researchers and everyone involved with the forest in Portorož on 24 and 25 October 2024. The event ...

Oct 2024

Kick-off meeting Soil:OurInvisibleAlly

On Thursday and Friday, October 10 and 11, 2024, Slovenian Forestry Institute hosted kick-off meeting for our new international project Soil:OurInvisibleAlly (2024-2027), under the Interreg Alpine Space program. The project focuses on the protection ...

Apr 2024

Invitation for summer school on Scientific Writing, Reviewing and publishing 2024

Call for participants 29 July – 2 August 2024 Logarska dolina, Slovenia The 12th Summer School on Scientific Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing: “The untapped potential of forest fruit trees” trains students, early career ...

Apr 2024

International Summer School - Climate-Friendly Agricultural Practices

As part of the LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project, the Slovenian Forestry Institute is hosting an international summer school entitled "Climate-friendly agricultural practices". Date: July 15 - July 19 Location: Murska Sobota, Slovenia The ...

Feb 2024

INSECTS PESTS AND URBAN TREE HEALTH: current challenges and solutions

COST Action CA20132 “UrbanTreeGuard” Training school Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-30, 2024 Urban trees provide essential ecosystem services, including temperature regulation, cultural and aesthetic values, and support for biodiversity. ...

Mar 2023

Apply for the Young Researcher Positions 2023

The Slovenian Forestry Institute is looking for ambitious candidates for young researchers that will start their doctoral training programs with their selected supervisor in 2023. The research areas: Forest protection and health: ...

Dec 2022

OptFORESTS, a new Horizon Europe project to enhance diversity and resilience of future European forests

The 5-year project aims to support the protection and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe in the face of environmental and societal challenges. Faced with the challenges posed to forests by climate change, new European policies ...

Nov 2022

A Novel EU Project Provides Forest Information for Europe’s Roadmap Towards Climate Neutrality

A better monitoring of Europe’s forest will help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. - Our overall aim is to aid Europe’s transition to a climate-neutral and resilient society and economy, says Johannes Breidenbach, coordinator ...

Aug 2022

16th European Forest Pedagogics Congress

This year, we set off on a trip to Switzerland to meet like-minded people again and make plans for positive changes in forest pedagogy. We went on the trip together with colleagues from the Slovenian Forest Service (ZGS) and thus filled the car to ...

Jul 2022

International forestry summer school Slovenia

International forestry summer school is inviting students of forestry and forestry-related students! As part of the LIFE-IP CARE4CLIMATE project, the Slovenian Forestry Institute is organizing an international forestry summer school ...

Oct 2021

ALPTREES 15th Steering group meeting

In the second half of September, more precisely on 22nd and 23rd September, we hosted the project partners of the Alptrees Interreg Alpine space project at the institute. We met at the 15th meeting of the steering group, where we reviewed, in ...

Feb 2021

The State of Europe’s Forests 2020 (SoEF 2020)

The area of forests in Europe1 has increased by 9% over the last 30 years. At 227 million ha of forests, more than one-third of Europe’s land surface is forested. About three-quarters of the net annual wood increment is felled. However, in the last ...

Jul 2020

Special Issue "Impact of Climate Change and Globalisation on Endemic and Emerging Forest Diseases"

Welcome to Special Issue of Forests "Impact of Climate Change and Globalisation on Endemic and Emerging Forest Diseases". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Forest_Diseases

Jun 2020

Setting up experimental plots of project LIFE SySTEMiC

Project collaborators started to pinpoint exact location of of LIFE SySTEMiC research plots at sites, previously determined from remote sensing and forest stand data. During first stage, location of plots will be determined on the basis of projects ...

Apr 2019

Monitoring of carbon balance in the karst grasslands

In order to provide a basis for large-scale monitoring of carbon balance in the karst grasslands in south-west Slovenia, the present study combined eddy covariance and meteorological data to various vegetation indices derived from Proba-V and Landsat ...

Feb 2018

The start of the EU project "CirculAlps"

On February 6, 2018, a kick-off meeting of the CirculAlps project took a place in the Kuchl University campus in Kuchl-Salzburg, Austria. The project is promoting the circular economy and the bio-economy in the Alpine timber sector. Slovenian ...

Mar 2017

“Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest” continues its journey across our country

“Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest” continues its journey across our country. “Handbook for Learning and Play in the Forest” was published by Slovenian Forestry Institute. Handbook is a useful tool for kindergarden educators, ...