Dear Meliaceae Working Party: Your participation is needed in the survey below on forestry education. Thanks! Sheila Ward Deputy Coordinator IUFRO 1.02.04 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: IUFRO Headquarters &lt;office(a)iufro.org&gt; Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:29 AM Subject: Invitation to participate in an important study on forest education To: Dear IUFRO Officeholder &lt;mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com&gt; <https://www.iufro.org/> * International Union of Forest Research Organizations * Invitation to participate in an important study on forest education Dear colleague, Also on behalf of our partners FAO and ITTO, I am pleased to *invite you to participate in an unprecedented survey* that will inform a global assessment of forest-related education. Your responses will be invaluable in our efforts to chart a path forward for forest education and to shape a new international initiative to reinforce it. The survey is being undertaken by a project led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and funded by the Government of Germany. For information on the project please see: http://www.fao.org/forestry/forest-education/en/. *The survey should take less than 30 minutes to complete.* Please use a computer instead of other devices to fill out the survey questionnaire. We ask that you submit your response within 7-10 days of receipt of this invitation*.*Responses to the survey will be treated anonymously. *To access the survey, please go to *http://webropol.com/s/Forest-Education-Survey-2 All respondents, if they wish, will be entered into a *lottery for a fully funded prize* to participate in the International Conference on Forest Education to be held at FAO Headquarters in Rome, tentatively in November 2020. All travel and boarding expenses will be paid by the conference organizers. We would be grateful if you would *forward this invitation to others* whom you think will be willing to participate in the survey. They could include people working for organizations, agencies or private sector entities involved in the forest sector; teachers of forestry-related subjects; and students in forest programmes in technical and vocational schools, colleges or universities. *Many thanks you for your cooperation!* Alexander Buck, Executive Director, IUFRO pdf of invitation in English for download <https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/news-records/EN-Invitation-forest-education-snowball-survey.pdf> pdf of invitation in French for download <https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/news-records/FR-participer-enquete-education-forets.pdf> pdf of invitation in Spanish for download <https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/news-records/ES-participar-encuesta-educacion-forestal.pdf> --------------------------------------- *You are receiving this message, because you are an IUFRO member or officeholder or have registered for one of our web-based email distribution lists. **If you wish to unsubscribe from **IUFRO mailings, please email us at: burger(at)iufro.org &lt;burger(a)iufro.org&gt;.* *IUFRO Headquarters, Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Website: https://www.iufro.org/ <https://www.iufro.org/> - Email: office(a)iufro.org &lt;office(a)iufro.org&gt;* *Imprint: https://www.iufro.org/legal/ <https://www.iufro.org/legal/>*