The primary objective of the SILVA Network is to stimulate and facilitate educational co-operation in the field of Forestry in Europe.

The secondary objectives will be realised at four levels:
- Students: to make it possible for students to carry out part of their studies abroad
- Teachers: to stimulate and facilitate sojourns of teachers abroad
- Curriculum: to encourage the exchange of information on the development of curricula and the development of 
  joint  curricula
- Courses: to stimulate and facilitate the development of joint courses

SILVA Network  Annual Conference 2020:

July 8-10, 2020, hosted by the

University of Sarajevo

DIGITALIZATION IN HIGHER FOREST EDUCATION –

TEACHING AND LEARNING REVISITED

>>> SILVA Network Annual Conference 2020 First Announcement

SILVA Network  Annual Conference 2019:

June 19-21, 2019, in Tharandt, Germany, hosted by the

Technische Universität Dresden

TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE BOLOGNA DECLARATION -

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR HIGHER FOREST EDUCATION?

>>> Programme

>>> Travel information

>>> Second Announcement 

>>> Registration Form

SILVA Network  Annual Conference 2018: 

University of Padova, Department of Land,

for study programmes in forest sciences and related disciplines

>>> Third Announcement

>>> Second Announcement

 >>> First Announcement

Life Sciences

FOREST SCIENCE EDUCATION:

Forests for university education: examples and experiences

>>>NEWS: Conference Communique Prague 2017

>>> First announcement

>>> Second announcement

>>> Third announcement

>>> Registration form (new)

NEWS: The IUFRO Anniversary Congress in Freiburg 2017

will include sessions on higher education in forest sciences:

>>> Announcement

SILVA Network

Annual Conference 2016: 

September 21^st -23^rd, 2016, in Tartu, Estonia, at the Estonian University of Life Sciences

FOREST SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Self-study and activation of the learner

NEWS: SILVA Network Publication14 Tartu 2016 Proceedings

Please register using this registration form

Second Announcement for Annual Conference 2016

NEWS: SILVA Network Publication13 Vienna2015 Proceedings Version2

SILVA Network

Annual Conference 2015: 

April 16th -18th, 2015 in Vienna, Austria, at BOKU

Should all Forestry Students learn the same? Generalization versus Specialization

following the conference of ICA-Edu Symposium Life Science Graduates Fit for Europe 

15 and 16 April 2015: http://www.ica-ls.com/ 

A photo of the Vienna conference group (by Claudia Becker)

you find here

List of accepted contributions (as of April 2nd): ---> pdf

Second Announcement (venue changed, including hotel list): ---> pdf  

Announcement: ---> pdf

Registration form: ---> pdf   ---> doc

Annual Conference 2014:

August 13th -15th, 2014 in Bern, Switzerland
Practice orientation in forestry curricula
in Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences

Photo: Daniela Rommel

more photos:

conference and excursion --> ppt   -->ppt

Bern walk -->

mountain flowers --> ppt

First announcement --> pdf

General Assembly: topics --> pdf

Accomodation and Travel Information --> pdf

Presentation by H.H.Heinimann:

Qualification Profiles – Key to Design Outcome-Oriented Educational Programs --> pdf

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Annual Conference 2013:

Nov. 1st - Nov. 3rd 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey
From teaching to learning –
when will we take it seriously in forest sciences education?

Presentations Annual Conference --> link

Picture links: 01.11.2013, 02.11.2013, 03.11.2013, 04.11.2013

SILVA Network annual conference 2013: Programme --> pdf

Programme CONDEFF and SILVA Network: Joint technical field trip --> pdf

Agenda annual conference --> pdf

Second announcement --> pdf

NEWS: Proceedings 11 (Istanbul 2013) now online available -->pdf   Istanbul 2013 Proceedings

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 NEWS: Proceedings 10 (Lleida 2012) now online available -->pdf

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Annual Conference 2012:

Nov.22nd - Nov. 25th 2012 in Lleida, Spain
DO OUR STUDENTS LEARN WHAT THEY WILL NEED LATER?
About expected learning outcomes and competences of graduates

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Annual Conference 2011:

Sept. 14th - 16th, 2011 in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Bologna cycles 1 to 3 and higher forest education
- objectives and reality -

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Annual Conference 2010:

June 14th – June19th, 2010 in Zagreb, Croatia
Jointly organised by the Association for European Life Science Universities (ICA) and the University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture

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Annual Conference 2009:
NOVEMBER, 3^rd-8^th 2009
ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, FACULTY OF FORESTRY AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THESSALONIKI , GREECE.
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Annual Conference 2008:
May 15^th till May 17^th 2008
University of Copenhagen 

Field trip: "Learning and Teaching in the Forest", Danish Forestry College, Fredensborg.

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Proceedings Freiburg 2007 online:
Design and Functioning of International Forestry Curricula: Considerations and Experiences.
2008 SILVA Publications 5: Proceedings of the SILVA Conference August 26^th – 30^th 2007 Freiburg, Germany.
Eds.: P. Schmidt, S. Lewark --> pdf
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