Forest’s events calendar: 2022
- United Nations (UN): Department of Economic and Social Affairs Forests
https://www.un.org/esa/forests/events/index.html
- 15th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 15), 9-21.05.2022, Côte D’Ivoire, UNCCD Secretariat;
Related events:
- UNFF Expert Group Meeting: Assessment of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Forests and Forest Sector
- COP 26 | ITTO–IPB–FFPRI event | Prevention of forest fires in the tropics: lessons from Indonesia and Peru
- COP 26 | SDG Pavilion: Addressing the risk of wildfires to Contribute to Climate Change mitigation and adaptation
- COP 26 | SDG Pavilion: Advancing Implementation of the Paris Agreement Through Making Progress Towards the Global Forest Goals
- UNFF Expert Group Meeting on Preparations for the Midterm Review of the International Arrangement on Forests
- FORECOMON 2022 – The 10th Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Conference
LUKE, Helsinki, Finland, 30 May – 1 June 2022
Forest dynamics in the Anthropocene – Integrated monitoring toward a whole system approach
Forest ecosystems play a key role in the ongoing global change as they possess a great proportion of terrestrial carbon and biodiversity. Their response to the large-scale environmental changes of our time such as anthropogenic air pollution, rising air temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and increasing occurrence of weather extremes (drought, heat, floods, storms etc.) have crucial implications for terrestrial flora, fauna and human societies.
Forests are growing in local, national, and global importance for ecosystem services such as timber production, water purification, carbon sequestration and soil erosion control. Although societal expectations of forest and forestry are expanding, the provision of these key ecosystem services is becoming more and more endangered. To assess the impact of global change on forest ecosystems and their resilience, long-term data series are indispensable to evaluate the status, new phenomena, trends and processes in forest ecosystems. These data series are the foundation for scientifically sound decision making. Consequently, the need for target-oriented cooperation within and between international monitoring networks is clear.
More than three decades of monitoring effects of air pollution within ICP Forests operating under the UNECE Air Convention have furnished a harmonized and standardized asset: long-term data series. These allow scientists, stakeholders and policy makers to assess the status, investigate the processes and forecast changes of European forest ecosystems and their functioning in a dynamic environment.
In the light of the scope of this conference, we particularly welcome contributions from long term monitoring networks, such as sister networks under the UNECE Working Group on Effects, ICOS, eLTER, DANUBIUS, ACTRIS, and AnaEE. We aim for a balanced program comprising traditional evaluations as well as the latest approaches using remote sensing techniques. Our goal is to stimulate an inspiring discussion on future monitoring, integrating information from the range of monitoring networks with a whole system approach.
As an enrichment of the scientific scope of the conference, we are delighted to announce the following keynotes:
Annemarie Bastrup-Birk (Forest Expert, European Environment Agency): Synergies and challenges among long-term forest monitoring networks
Jaana Bäck (Professor, University of Helsinki): Integrated approach to long-term observations in ecosystems, critical zone and socio-ecology (eLTER)
Arthur Gessler (Professor, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL): New approaches for monitoring forest functioning – crossing scales from the cellular metabolome to the stand wide photochemical reflectance index
Raisa Mäkipää (Professor, Natural Resources Institute Finland Luke): European forest soils in mitigation of climate change – which management practices can increase soil C stock or reduce emissions?
FORECOMON 2022 – The 10th Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Conference will take place on 30 May – 1 June 2022 and will be followed by the 38th Task Force Meeting of ICP Forests, taking place on 1 – 3 June 2022. The Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) is the host of both events and is kindly making local arrangements. Both events will be organized as hybrid meetings to account for the possibility of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more information see: https://www.unccd.int;
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- European Forest Institute (EFI): For more information: https://efi.int/events/international-forest-policy-meeting-2022-04-27
- International Forest Policy Meeting (Online):
Event start date: 27.04.2022 ; Event end date: 29.04.2022
- XV World Forestry Congress – Building a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests
Event start date: 02.05.2022 ; Event end date: 06.05.2022 , Venue: Coex, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
- European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF)
Event start date: 17.05.2022 and Event end date: 21.05.2022 , Venue: Belgrade, Serbia;
- 0 Final Event: Fostering Innovation Towards a More Sustainable Forest Sector in Europe
Event start date: 14.06.2022 and event end date: 15.06.2022; Venue: Barcelona, Spain / online (hybrid);
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III: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) envisions a more equitable world where forestry and landscapes enhance the environment and well-being all.
December 7, 2021, 7:00-9:00 PM EST (GMT-5), via ZOOM
For more infromation: https://www.cifor.org/events/
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- International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO):
For more information: https://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/current/
“Interconnecting Forests, Science and People”..
Events:
- Forests and Sustainable Production and Consumption – Webinar on the occasion of the International Day of Forests 2022 (Online), 19.03.2022; Contact: James Chamberlain, Email: l.chamberlain@usda.gov;
- Unlocking the Bioeconomy for Nontimber Forest Products”: NWFP in Agroforestry: Farmer’s Perceptions in Europe (Online), Contact: James Chamberlain, Email: l.chamberlain@usda.gov;
- Forest mortality dynamics in Germany – how can we cope with it? (Online), Contact: Henrik Hartmann, hhart@bgc-jena.mpg.de;
- Social Entrepreneurship Training in the Forest Introduction to Nature Based Solutions – Pre-Congress Event at the XV World Forestry, Seoul, South Korea, Contact: Sandra Rodríguez-Pineros, spineros@uach.mx;
- 2022 13th Short Rotation Woody Crops International Conference, Mills River, North Carolina, United States, 02.05.2022, Contact: Ron Zalesny, Zalesny@usda.gov;
- Building data foundations for sustainable forest management: integration, collaboration and experience in reporting at global and regional scales to show progress towards green, healthy and resilient forest. Side event at the World Forestry Congress 2022, Seoul, South Korea,04.05.2022; Contact: Stefanie Linser, linser@efi.int;
- Socio-Ecological Conflicts in Forest Management: Risks of (Not) Adapting?, Nancy, France, 31.05.2022; Contact: Rasoul Yousefpour, yousefpour@ife.uni-freiburg.de
Contact: Marielle Brunette, marielle.brunette@inrae.fr; - IUFRO LE Symposium at the IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress: Forest expansion, landscape dynamics and ecosystem services in Europe, 11-15.07.2022; Contact: Joao Azevedo, jazevedo@ipb.pt;
- 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2021), 24-27.07.2022, Estes Park, Colorado, United States, Contact: José G. Borges, joseborges@isa.ulisboa.pt;
- INTECOL2022 – Session: Forest Biodiversity Crisis: Resilience & mitigation options, 28.08-2.09.2022, Geneva, Switzerland, Contact: Anna Barbati, Email: sisfor@unitus.it
Contact: Sandra Luque, Email: sandra.luque@inrae.fr; - INTECOL2022 – Session: Ecology from space (Remote sensing applications on forested systems), 28.08-2.09.2022, Geneva, Switzerland, Contact: Sandra Luque, Email: luque@inrae.fr;
- Managerial forest economics and accounting as a base for decision making in a changing world, 5-7.09.2022, Hamburg, Germany, Contact: Lydia Rosenkranz, rosenkranz@thuenen.de, Contact: Lidija Zadnik-Stirn, lidija.zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si ;
- ForestSAT2020 – Last Call for Forests!, 12-16.09.2022, Krakow, Poland, Contact: Piotr Wężyk, Email: wezyk@ur.krakow.pl, forestsat2020@gmail.com
- 7th IUFRO International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions in Forestry Understanding forest tree-antagonistic interactions in a changing world, 12-17.09.2022, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, Contact: Richard A. Sniezko, Email: sniezko@usda.gov;
- Natural Resources, Green Technology and Sustainable Developement/4 – GREEN2022, 14-16.09.2022, Zagreb and Jastrebarsko, Croatia, Contact: Maša Zorana Ostrogović Sever, masao@sumins.hr;
- Abies & Pinus 2022. Fir and pine management in changeable environment: risks and opportunities, 19-22.09.2022, Contact: Dalibor Ballian, balliandalibor9@gmail.com, Teresa de Jesus Fidalgo: Fonseca, tfonseca@utad.pt, Andrej Bončina, Boncina@bf.uni-lj.si;
- Small-scale Forestry International Conference 2022: Progress in Small scale Forestry beyond the Pandemic and Global Climate Change, 26-31.10.2022, Contact: Ikuo Ota, Email: iufro2022okinawa@gmail.com;
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- Funding donor’s opportunities for 2022:
- Funding for wastes: SGP on plastic waste (Basel Convention);
3rd call for proposal
The third call for project proposals is now open for submission by the Basel and Stockholm Conventions Regional Centres. The deadline for submission of the proposal is 25 May 2022. Parties that are interested in receiving support from the regional centres on the above-mentioned results areas should contact the regional centers.
- SGP-3 Modalities for the third call for proposals for the SGP on Plastic Waste
- Template for project proposals
The SGP on Plastic Waste seeks to identify and implement low-cost high impact pilot projects on the ground, supported by Basel Convention regional and coordinating centres and Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres. The projects are implemented at the national or regional levels with full engagement of relevant focal points of the Basel Convention or official contact points or national focal points of the Stockholm Convention.
The SGP on Plastic Waste contributes to one or several of the following four results areas:
- Controlling the transboundary movements (TBM) of plastic waste;
- Improving the environmentally sound management (ESM) of plastic waste;
- Preventing and minimizing the generation of plastic waste;
- Reducing the risk from hazardous constituents such as persistent organic pollutants in plastic waste.
The projects should build on results achieved and make use of the tools developed under the technical assistance activities on plastic waste undertaken by the BRS Secretariat, for example the Plastic Waste Inventory Toolkit developed under the BRS-Norad-1 project.
The projects may be implemented in one or several countries that are eligible to receive funding under the technical assistance programme of the Basel and Stockholm Conventions and are listed on the development assistance cooperation list of overseas development assistance (ODA) recipients and can feature activities at municipal, national and regional levels.
Project proposals can be submitted by the Basel Convention Regional and Coordinating Centres or Stockholm Convention Regional Centres. Proposals received from any other stakeholders will not be considered.
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- DRC-Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation: https://www.drkfoundation.org/apply-for-funding/what-we-fund/
DRK’s hope is to support outsized impact through entrepreneurs and enterprises that create a transformational paradigm shift to meaningfully address a pressing societal problem affecting people’s lives.
DRK Funds:
- Organizations addressing a critical social or environmental issue as the focus of their work.
- Founders who intend to expand their impact significantly over time.
- Organizations operating in Africa, Europe, India, Latin America, and the United States.
- Independent nonprofit and impact first, mission-driven for-profit entities, including US 501(c)3 and its non-US equivalents, C corporations, B corporations, and hybrid organizations.
- Fiscally sponsored organizations in select cases where there is a plan to spin out (in our experience, independence creates stronger enabling conditions for growth).
- Post-pilot, pre-scale organizations. This typically means:
—Your program, product or service is already in the market or in the field.
—You have early indication that your model is having its intended impact.
—Your organization is 3-5 years old (this is not a rule, but a guidepost). - Organizations with one or more founders who are full-time or intend to be.
—We believe that full-time leadership from the organization’s founder(s) is critical to an early stage organization’s growth.
—We recognize that going full-time requires resources that you may still be putting together, and if that is the case we are happy to start a conversation with you in the meantime. - We value diversity of people proximate to the problem at hand and a commitment to foster justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging practices.
DRK Prioritizes:
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- Evidence of focused alignment, systemic social change, data-based decision making.
- Leaders who are continually learning and iterating and welcome a deep working relationship with DRK for 3 years. Leaders who intimately understand the opportunity and the communities they serve. Leaders committed to advancing justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all.
- Organizations who are designed to realize their impact at scale.
- 3. LIFE Calls for proposals 2022 – publication dates
https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/life/life-calls-proposals_en
All LIFE Calls for proposals 2022 are expected to be published on the Funding & tender opportunities portal on 17 May 2022.
Anticipated submission deadlines:
- Standard Action Projects (SAPs) for circular economy and quality of life, nature and biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation sub-programmes: 4 October 2022
- LIFE Action Grants for clean energy transition sub-programme: 16 November 2022
- Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) and Strategic Nature Projects (SNAPs):
- Concept notes: 8 September 2022
- Full proposals: 7 March 2023
- Technical Assistance preparation for SIPs and SNAPs: 8 September 2022
- Specific Operating Grant Agreements (SGA OG) for non-profit making entities: 21 September 2022
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- European Outdoor Conservation Association (EACA):
https://www.eocaconservation.org/project-info.cfm?pageid=20,
deadline: 1-15.11.2022
Tue, Jul 20 at 11:29 AM
How to Apply for Funding from EOCA
Applications for funding are invited from 1-15 June and 1-15 November.
EOCA will next be accepting funding applications from 1 – 15 JUNE 2022, for funding in autumn 2022. Please keep checking this page for any further updates.
There is an increasing urgency and awareness of the double threat that our world currently faces: the loss of biodiversity and climate change. These two issues are intrinsically linked, and both are of enormous importance to wildlife, nature, people and the future of the planet.
Imagine standing at a viewpoint, looking out at the environment around you. You can see the highest mountains, the valleys between them, the streams that become a meandering river leading to a lake, to an estuary and then out to the ocean. Within this landscape are a wide variety of different ecosystems, vital for biodiversity, mitigating against climate change, and for communities. These include alpine meadows, forests, peatlands, freshwater habitats, salt marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows, to name but a few.
EOCA is looking to fund projects which benefit biodiversity in a wild landscape. Our definition of ‘landscape’ includes marine environments, and a broad range of wild, non-urban spaces. Projects must conserve, protect, enhance, restore, and/or reconnect habitats within a given landscape that are particularly important for the biodiversity there.
This focus on biodiversity will also address the importance that EOCA places on the issue of climate change. Projects should ensure that the habitats being conserved are those that sequester carbon, reduce emissions, enable adaptations to climate change, and/or protect against further habitat and biodiversity loss.
It is also very important that the projects are beneficial to the local communities that live in, or near, these habitats. Projects should highlight how they encourage local stewardship of habitats, alleviate poverty, support local ecosystem services, while at the same time, having a link to outdoor enthusiasts who value these precious wild spaces.
Who can apply?
Non profit organisations can apply to EOCA for grants of up to €30,000 to implement a conservation project of up to 24 months in duration in any country around the world except North America (US and Canada – where the Conservation Alliance provides funding for conservation efforts from the North American outdoor industry).
Project applications are shortlisted according to their ability to meet EOCA’s criteria for funding (see below). Using this criteria, the shortlist of projects is drawn up at the sole discretion of the General Managers, the Scientific Advisors and EOCA’s Board of Directors. The General Managers will seek further advice from EOCA’s Scientific Advisors if required. Due to the many diverse nationalities making up the whole panel, all applications must please be written in English.
The projects to successfully win funding will be chosen from the shortlist via a public vote and/or an EOCA’s members vote (in March for applications received in November and October for applications received in June). In Spring 2017, 60.4 million people were reached through this process!
The public vote involves some effort on the part of the projects involved, to mobilise supporters and generate votes for their project over a two week period. However, the process also gives projects a very valuable opportunity to raise the profile and awareness of their organisation and its work in an international arena.
Members of EOCA can nominate up to three projects (from different, or the same organisations) each year. If you, as a conservation organisation, do not have any personal contacts to our members, please do not worry! Just apply directly!
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- The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges:
https://unifor.no/stiftelser/the-minor-foundation-for-major-challenges/?_sf_s=Minor
Deadline: 8.04.2022
The Foundation supports advocates of climate change mitigation. The calls for applications are open to international applicants.
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges (MFMC) is a Norwegian foundation that supports communication projects which advance the transition to a low carbon economy.
MFMC supports projects that support urgent, large-scale transformation, with a focus on changing policies and practices in public or private institutions. The foundation’s priorities for the 2019-2023 period are to
– encourage and support innovation in climate communication
– increase the number of voices and narratives in climate advocacy
– help strengthen social and political movements that open up for radical change
– concentrate on supporting European proposals
The foundation will only consider applications that clearly fall under its strategy. Further information about the foundation, including its bylaws and its complete strategy for the period 2019–2023, is available on the MFMC website.
Please note that the foundation will not consider applications that have a purely local focus, that focuses on implementation of community-level projects such as forest conservation, tree planting, climate change adaptation, or that primarily seek to disseminate climate-related information to the general public.
MFMC traditionally announces six calls for applications every year, in two different categories: large and small grants.
LARGE GRANTS In this category, MFMC is looking for projects typically in the range of EUR 20,000 to EUR 200,000, although larger projects may be considered. The application process consists of two steps, where interested organizations are asked to initially submit a short pitch. Based on this, the organization may be invited to submit a full application if the MFMC board finds the project appealing.
SMALL GRANTS In this category, it is possible to apply for smaller grants of up to EUR 10,000 in a simplified one-stage process. Applications will be assessed by the MFMC board based on its aims and strategy.
Please choose the relevant category below for further details about the application process.
LARGE GRANTS
Application deadline: 26.11.2021
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges – larger grants (step 1)
In this call for applications the foundation is looking for projects above EUR 10,000 – typically in the range of €20,000 to €200,000, although larger projects may be considered. The foundation will only consider applications that clearly fall under its strategy. Please consult the MFMC strategy carefully before considering submitting an application.
The application process for larger grants is in two steps. In the first step, you are welcome to submit a short pitch on behalf of your organization. After thorough evaluation by the foundation’s board, applicants may be invited to the second step, in which a full application will be submitted.
Step one of the application procedure may be completed electronically by clicking “Apply here”. In order to prepare your application ahead of time, click here to download a screenshot of the application form
Applicant with a Norwegian ID?
In order to submit an application to the Minor Foundation for Major Challenges your organization must submit a short description of the planned application to the secretary of the MFMC board. The purpose of the description is to determine whether or not your project clearly falls within the MFMC strategy and thus merits the attention of the board.
The secretary to the MFMC board, Mr. Tore Brænd, may be contacted at tore.braend@minor-foundation.no.
Please note that processing a description may take several days, and contact should therefore be made well in advance of the deadline for the relevant call.
Upon receiving preapproval, applicants with a Norwegian ID can easily access and register in UNIFOR’s application portal through “ID-porten”.
Applications by organizations not preapproved by the secretary of the board will be rejected.
International applicant without a Norwegian ID?
In order to access UNIFOR’s application portal without a Norwegian ID, you have to request a user profile by contacting the secretary of the MFMC board. A user profile will be set up if the project is found to clearly fall within the MFMC strategy and thus merits the attention of the board. When contacting the secretary of the MFMC board, prospective applicants must provide the following information:
- Name of organization
- Full name (as is written in passport) of organization’s contact person
- Organization’s full postal address
- Contact person’s phone number
- Contact person’s e-mail address
- A short description of the planned application, for example the pitch or short description to be submitted in the application form, that clearly explains how the project falls within the strategic aims of MFMC (copy directly into e-mail, not as an attachment)
- Documentation that you represent an organization, in the form of an officially certified proof of registration (f. ex. tax registration) of your organization must be included as an attachment to your inquiry
The secretary to the MFMC board, Mr. Tore Brænd, may be contacted at: tore.braend@minor-foundation.no. Please note that processing a request for a user profile may take several days, and that contact therefore should be made well in advance of the deadline for the relevant call.
Technical assistance
After your request for a user profile in the UNIFOR portal is granted, the UNIFOR staff will set up your profile and may assist with the rest of the application process as needed.
UNIFOR is a Norwegian organization and our working hours are 08:00-16:00 CEST. If you contact us on the day of the current deadline, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to assist you in time to submit your application. In such case you have to wait until the next call for applications is announced.
Please note that most of UNIFOR’s website is in Norwegian language. It is possible to use the Google translate button on the bottom left of the page. However, please be sceptical about the accuracy of the resulting translations. If you find the translated text difficult to understand, please contact UNIFOR’s administration for an explanation.
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