[IUFRO Div 9] New years greeting IUFRO Division 9 - update website

Dear IUFRO Divison 9 colleagues, I 'd like to use the opportunity of the just started new year to send you my regards and best wishes for 2016. You have done a great work for IUFRO and Division 9 in the last year and there are already many exciting plans for activities for this new year. I am not able to name all of them (please have a look at the IUFRO website to grasp the full list of planned activities) but just exemplify the high grade of activity by naming those sending their call in the last weeks, e.g. RG 9.05 where all Division 9 groups are invited to propose sessions for a conference in Bogor/Indonesia in Autumn, WG 9.01.03 (Extension & Knowledge) who sent out a cfp for their next conference in Ontario in September or the 17th Int. Symposium of RG 9.06. on Legal Aspects of European Forest Sustainable Development that will be held in Slovakia / Czech Republic in May. I am aware that there will be many more meetings coordinated, organized and supported by Division 9 groups. Thanks for all of these efforts - it is great to work with such an inspiring and motivated team! There is a challenge we have to meet in this year and this is our website communication. Though we are pretty good in communicating our activities, we have been less good in communicating a few more information about our groups in general. I take the chance and the spirit of the new year to ask all of you to update the IUFRO website of your group. This will make your efforts and the groups work visible as well to the people outside IUFRO and can help to strengthen our network. You can directly send your changes to Brigitte Burger (burger(a)iufro.org) from the IUFRO secretariat. She will be happy to change the content. Let me end my new years email by once more announce the IUFRO 125 Anniversary Congress 2017 to be held in Freiburg from 19-22 September where we plan to have an All Division 9 meeting as well. You can keep this in mind when planning further activities in your groups as all of you are invited to contribute with sessions and other forms of meetings within that Congress. I hope to see you in 2016. With best regards Daniela Kleinschmit Coordinator Division 9 -- Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit Professur für Forst- und Umweltpolitik/ Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy University of Freiburg Tennenbacherstr. 4 D- 79106 Freiburg Tel: +49 (0) 761/203-3712 Secretariat: +49 (0) 761/203-3713