Dear Officeholders
Cc: Justin, Sree, and Ellyn
To all those who will be participating at the IUFRO Stockholm, please note
that we have received confirmation for the all-Division meeting: *Thursday
(27 June 2024) evening from 18:00-20:00* (2h fixed slots). The room is not
yet confirmed.
In our next email when the room is confirmed, we would also like to know
your availability and interest to participate in the meeting (we will
use Doodle)
- so that a tentative meeting schedule can be prepared.
Kind regards,
Purabi.
Coordinator IUFRO Division 6 and Voting Board member
*I copy-pasted the below message from the IUFRO HQ*
Thank you for indicating your interest in holding your all-Division
meetings on the sidelines of the World Congress 2024, including the
estimated number of participants.
This is to confirm that we have blocked *Thursday (27 June 2024) evening
from 18:00-20:00* (2h fixed slots) for these all-Division meetings. There
are no other unit meetings taking place at the same date and time, and the
scientific programme has ended by then.
The exact rooms will be allocated to you in due course and we will inform
you about the room numbers/names accordingly.
Please also note that all the meeting rooms come with a screen for showing
slides if wished so, plus microphones and speaker system. *The rooms are
NOT equipped with full hybrid technology!*
To: Coordinators of Research Groups (RGs) and Working Party (WPs)
Cc: Deputy coordinators of Division 6, Alexander Buck and John Parrotta
*Dear Officeholders of Division 6:*
As we are gearing toward completing the IUFRO's five-year term in June, I
am required to present the work that our Division has accomplished in the
period 2019-2024 at the Extended Board meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, on the
19th of June 2024.
For those RGs that have been actively organizing research and extension
activities and have been reporting to us (including contributions to the
Division's newsletters), I would take this opportunity to request you to
share the photo(s) of one to max three specific activities that you would
like me to highlight at the Board meeting presentation (approx 5 minutes
per Division Coordinator).
A few RGs have never reported about their activities or the IUFRO's annual
strategic plan since I took over from Cecil Konijnendijk as Division
Coordinator in September 2022. I would like to include you in this process
and therefore leave it open for you to respond on what I should report
about your work for the period 2019-2024.
I look forward to hearing from you on or before *15th May 2024 *(of course
a polite reminder will be sent again around mid-April!)*. *Thank you.
Kind regards,
Purabi.
*Dr. Purabi Bose*
*IUFRO Division 6 Coordinator and Voting Board member*
*Associate Professor (docent) | Senior Lecturer in Forest Policy, SLU,
Sweden*
*International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and
Forestry *
Dear colleagues
I would like to share two announcements
1. The Sino-European CLEARING HOUSE project will run its concluding webinar next Friday 2 February 9:00 - 10:30.
**An Introduction to CLEARING HOUSE Tools: Improve Your City's Nature-Based Solutions**
In its concluding webinar, CLEARING HOUSE will present tools designed for municipalities to enhance NBS initiatives.
* Spatial Impact Assessment and Classification tool (SIAC): Models tree cover, assesses street tree density, and evaluates spatial relationships with streets or buildings.
* Spatial Information and Knowledge Hub (SIK-Hub): Facilitates a swift assessment of Urban Forest-NBS and their environmental, ecological, and social settings.
* CLEARING HOUSE Citizen Science: Assists in uncovering feedback loops between Urban Forest-NBS qualities and specific challenges, purposes, uses, or users.
Further info on the website : https://clearinghouseproject.eu/webinars/
Register at: <https://metropolis-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvde6uqT0pHdcbhEMtA171_cx…> https://metropolis-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvde6uqT0pHdcbhEMtA171_cx…
2. The European Forum on Urban Forestry has extended the deadline for submitting ideas and abstracts until 31 January.
The EFUF meeting will take place 22 to 24 May in Zagreb, under the theme: Urban Forests for All.
EFUF invites researchers and professionals dealing with urban forests and green spaces to submit abstracts for a wide range of contributions. EFUF emphasises the connection of practice and scientific knowledge, encouraging a variety of possible formats to contribute to the conference. We welcome practice-oriented contributions, research contributions as well as proposals for workshops and demonstrations.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2024 23:59 CET (Brussels time) through this form:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EFUF2024_abstracts.
Subtopics are
More information on the scope and requirements at https://efuf.org/2023/12/15/call-for-abstracts-efuf2024/
* Urban Forests for People and Society
* Urban Forests for a Sustainable Tomorrow
* Urban Forests for All Living Beings
1.
______________________________________
Dr Rik De Vreese
Senior Researcher and Team Leader for Urban Forestry - CLEARING HOUSE Project Coordinator
Resilience Programme
European Forest Institute (EFI Bonn)
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7
53113 Bonn, Germany
+32 485 36 00 78 (BE) or +49 173 658 1628 (DE)
http://www.efi.inthttp://www.clearinghouseproject.eu - outputs: https://linktr.ee/clearing_house - socials & blog: https://linktr.ee/clearinghouse_h2020http://resilience-blog.comhttp://www.efuf.orghttp://www.uforest.eu
To IUFRO Division 6
A reminder from IUFRO HQ... kindly find attached forms - please share
updates about your RG and WP. I am looking forward to receiving the
information* before 19th January 2024. *
With warm regards,
Purabi.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Andre Purret <purret(a)iufro.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Subject: REMINDER: Annual reporting by IUFRO Divisions following the
Strategy Action Plan
*From:* Andre Purret
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 6, 2023 8:04 PM
*To:* jps(a)slu.se; santiago.c.gonzalez.martinez(a)gmail.com;
santiago.gonzalez-martinez(a)inrae.fr; Woodam Chung (OSU) <
woodam.chung(a)oregonstate.edu>; dhodges2(a)utk.edu; Don Hodges <
dhodges2(a)tennessee.edu>; pekka.saranpaa(a)luke.fi; Purabi Bose <
purabib2(a)gmail.com>; Ramsfield, Tod <tod.ramsfield(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>;
sandra.luque(a)inrae.fr; monagabay(a)yahoo.com; mgabay(a)ambiente.gob.ar
*Cc:* Daniela Kleinschmit <daniela.kleinschmit(a)ifp.uni-freiburg.de>;
Alexander Buck <buck(a)iufro.org>
*Subject:* Annual reporting by IUFRO Divisions following the Strategy
Action Plan
Dear Coordinators of IUFRO Divisions,
CC: Vice-President for Divisions,
It is now again the time of the year to start preparing for annual
reporting following the IUFRO Strategy Action Plan 2020-2024.
Similar to last year, IUFRO HQ would kindly request you to coordinate the
collection of input from within your Division (from Research Groups and
Working Parties). Since this is the final reporting in the current Board
term (2019-2024), the Board decided at its meeting in March 2023 (Dehradun,
India) that all units should report on the activities undertaken in 2023
*and* plans until June 2024 (until World Congress 2024) using the filtered
Strategy Action Plan as a guiding framework (Board Meeting Action 19).
For your convenience and as done last year, the updated *Word version of
the filtered action plan* that can be used to collect input from within
your Division has been attached to this e-mail. Last time round, some of
you had uploaded the Word document and circulated it as a shared online
document. For your information and in case useful, also the full *IUFRO
Strategy Action Plan 2020-2024* has been attached to this e-mail message.
IUFRO HQ would thus like to ask *you as Division** Coordinators **to submit
the final aggregated report of activities of your Division through the
following online form**:* *https://forms.office.com/e/PDcB1DdJzK
<https://forms.office.com/e/PDcB1DdJzK>*. *Each Division is asked to enter
into the text field of each relevant action not more than three (3) bullet
points describing the activities/progress towards implementing a specific
action in year 2023 and not more than three (3) bullet points describing
plans until June 2024. *Please submit your input *latest by 31 January 202*
*4**.*
In addition to using your reports for various suitable purposes within
IUFRO HQ, e.g., for developing the Annual Report, your reports from the
entire Board term will be further analyzed and assessed by the IUFRO
Strategy Action Plan evaluation Advisory Committee (to be formally approved
by the Board shortly). The task of the committee is to evaluate both
quantitatively and qualitatively the implementation of the whole IUFRO
Strategy Action Plan 2020-2024, based on the submitted reports for 2021,
2022, 2023 and half of 2024. The results and recommendations from the
analysis will be presented to the MC and the Board in June 2024, and these
will serve as a basis for the proposal for the next IUFRO Strategy Action
Plan post-2025.
In case of any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you in advance and best wishes from Vienna,
Andre
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*Andre Purret *
Operations Manager
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-877-0151-13 / Fax: +43-1-877-0151-50
Mobile: +372 5370 6685
Website: https://www.iufro.org/
E-mail: purret(a)iufro.org
Skype: andre.purret
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