To the Members of the IUFRO Enlarged Board: Dear Colleagues, As you may be aware the XV World Forestry Congress<https://wfc2021korea.org/index.html> (WFC) will be held next May in Seoul, Korea. The WFC Secretariat has partnered with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) to develop a short-term mentoring programme that connects young people (ages 18-35) with seasoned forest sector professionals. The programme is called "Green Mentor". I am writing to you on the request of the WFC Secretariat with the invitation to consider becoming a mentor in this programme. The WFC Secretariat has received an overwhelming response of over 450 youth and young professional across the world desiring to be paired with a mentor. Given this strong interest by mentees in the programme, there is an urgent need to find additional forestry professionals, including scientists, who volunteer to serve as mentors. Therefore, I would like to ask you to consider joining this programme as a mentor. Please confirm your interest in joining the programme by getting back to me (with a copy to burns(a)iufro.org) by the end of this week (i.e. Sunday, November 28th), if possible. The programme will run from January through to June 2021 and will request a 2-3 hour time commitment each month. There will be training for both mentors and mentees offered if needed, and webinars to support. A 'career map' will be provided for the mentees to complete with the mentor. The process is completely mentee driven, so it is up to the mentees to initiate contact and guide the programme. There will be a space at the Congress to meet, in case the mentor and mentee will both attend the Congress, but it is not required. Further information about Green Mentor is available at https://bit.ly/PLTCWFC Please note that the official deadline for applications has passed, but the WFC Secretariat is prepared to manually add you to the list and link you to potential mentees. Kind regards, Alexander --------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Buck Executive Director International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43-1-877 0151-12 Fax: +43-1-877 0151-50 Website: http://www.iufro.org<http://www.iufro.org/> Email: buck@iufro.org<mailto:buck@iufro.org> [Beschreibung: cid:image005.png@01D467A8.ABAC4EF0] ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________