News - Slovenian Forestry Institute

Feb 2014

Sleet damage estimation in forests with unnmaned aircraft

With cooperation of Slovenian company C-ASTRAL Ltd. researchers of the Slovenian Forestry Institute used a small unmanned airplane to estimate damages in forests after devastating sleet. With the airborne photography the researchers involved want ...

Jan 2014

SIMWOOD - Sustainable, innovative forest use for Europe

Munich – Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation especially in privately owned woods falls short of its potential. The ever-increasing demand for wood for material and energy applications is becoming more ...

Sep 2013

Workshop on forest monitoring

Slovenian Forestry Institute organized a workshop networking two LIFE + projects EMoNFUr and MANFOR C.BD and Public Forestry Service task. Its purpose was the presentation of contents and workflows of these projects, education for representatives of ...

Aug 2013

Life, Environmental and Geo Sciences Committee Opinion Paper

LEGS_Careers_OpinionPaper_FIN.pdf

Apr 2013

Expert meeting on the Role of wood and biomass in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions

Expert meeting on the Role of wood and biomass in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions. The meeting was organized by the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry and the Slovenian Forestry Institute. More about the event can be found here.

Apr 2013

ICP Forest – on Wednesday lecture on ring test for soil, deposition and foliar, at afternoon two meetings, first for expert panel on soil and soil solution and second for expert panel on deposition

This week Slovenian Forestry Institute hosts the Combined Expert Panel Meeting on Foliage and Litterfall / Soil and Soil Solution / Deposition / Working Group on QA/QC. On Wednesday, April 10 2013, there were three lectures on ring test for soil, ...

Apr 2013

ICP Forest – on Tuesday workshop for foliage and litterfall experts

This week Slovenian Forestry Institute hosts the Combined Expert Panel Meeting on Foliage and Litterfall / Soil and Soil Solution / Deposition / Working Group on QA/QC. On Tuesday, 9 April 2013, there was the workshop for foliage and litterfall ...

Apr 2013

ICP Forest – on first day the excursion to southern west part of Slovenia

This week Slovenian Forestry Institute hosts the Combined Expert Panel Meeting on Foliage and Litterfall / Soil and Soil Solution / Deposition / Working Group on QA/QC. The meeting started on Monday with excursion to Škocjan Caves. Nearly 20 ...

Feb 2013

COST Action FP1204 was launched- action for “Green Infrastructure approach”

On the 14th of February in Brussels within COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), one of the longest-running European frameworks supporting cooperation among scientists and Researchers across Europe) the Action FP1204 was launched. It ...

Feb 2013

The 2012 “Young People in European Forests” Project Concluded with an Awards Ceremony

On Friday, 22 February, 2013, the Slovenian Forestry Institute hosted the final event in the “Young People in European Forests” international youth competition, which was organized in Slovenia by the Slovenian Forestry Institute and the Scout ...

Feb 2013

THE SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE’S NEW DIRECTOR, PRIMOŽ SIMONČIČ, INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO THE WORKERS’ ASSEMBLY

On Tuesday, 12 February 2013, the Slovenian Forestry Institute’s new director Primož Simončič, who was appointed during the government’s 47th regular meeting on 1 February 2013, introduced himself to the workers’ assembly. He greeted the workers’ ...