?Dear colleagues, IUFRO unit 4.05 - Managerial economics and accounting with all five subunits (4.05.01, 4.05.02., 4.05.03, 4.05.04 and 4.05.05), the Institute for Regional Development of Eurac Research and the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Padua, in cooperation with IUFRO Task Force: "Unlocking the bio-economy and non-timber forest products organize the forest science conference "The social and ecological value added of small-scale forestry to the Bio-Economy". The conference will take place from 6th to 9th October 2020 at Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy. The website for the event is online now. Please, find the link here: https://www.iufro2020.eurac.edu/ which is reachable also from IUFRO page https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40500/activities/ We would like to invite you not only to have a look at the web page, but also to submit your abstract within 12th July 2020. Registration for the symposium will open on 24th July 2020. The web-page https://www.iufro2020.eurac.edu/ will be regularly updated. We hope that you find this conference topic of great interest, and we encourage you to inform other potential participants in your networks. Thus, we would be pleased if you could advise all colleagues and contacts, who might be interested. We are looking forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Bolzano. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions. With kind regards, Christian Hoffmann, conference coordinator, Eurac Research; christian.hoffmann@eurac.edu<mailto:christian.hoffmann@eurac.edu> Davide Pettenella, conference coordinator, University of Padova; davide.pettenella@unipd.it<mailto:davide.pettenella@unipd.it>; Lidija Zadnik Stirn, IUFRO 4.05 coordinator, lidija.zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si<mailto:lidija.zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si>; James Chamberlain, IUFRO TF4 coordinator, james.l.chamberlain@usda.gov<mailto:james.l.chamberlain@usda.gov>; ?