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Summer School 2026

Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration

16 - 21 August 2026

Monte Verità, Ascona

“Free access to the forest – is the right of free access reaching its limits?”

August 19, 2026 9.45 -16 p.m.

Grand Council Chamber, Bern City Hall

WaldDialog – Forest Dialogue – Dialogue Forestier

Biological diversity as the key to promoting adaptation and resilience in commercial forests

September 10 2026

University of Basel

Seminar: Should They Stay or Should They Go? The Responses of Tropical Trees and Tropical Forests to Global Warming

March 11 2026, 11 - 12 a.m.

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Engler-Saal

General Assembly 2026

January 30, 2026, 9 - 10 a.m.

Online event

Science Day 2026

"Understanding the Carbon Budget at the Organism, Tree, and Forest Ecosystem Levels"

January 16, 2026

University of Bern

Biodiversity Seminar: Monitoring Drought-Induced Tree Mortality as an Ecological Process

November 26, 2025 11-12 a.m.

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Engler-Saal

Summer School 2025

Forest Planning and Management in the 21st Century

August 25–29, 2025

Nancy, France

Insight into how forest ecosystems function under stress

June 17, 2025, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Engler-Saal

Biodiversity Seminar: Compositional and Functional Responses to Experimental Understory Removal in the Soil and Ground Vegetation of Former Wooded Pastures Nowadays Abandoned, After Millennia of Overuse

June 11, 2025, 11-12 a.m.

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf

Online event

Integrate Workshop – Forest Resilience through Biodiversity and close-to-nature forestry

2 – 4 June, 2025

Zurich, Switzerland

SwissForestLab Science Day

Forests in the face of accelerating environmental change

February 14, 2025

University of Basel