Projects
Arhiv projektov
Wildfire CE - Enabling cross-boundary assessment, communication and management of wildfire risks in Central Europe
The overall project objective is to enable border regions, the communities and landscapes within them, to prepare, respond & adapt to the increasing wildfire risk resulting from climate change. It will broaden cross-border & crosssector implementation of risk management through raising awareness with policy-makers, land managers, communities, infrastructure providers and emergency responders. Through improved and harmonised forecasting and fire risk mapping across borders it will reduce the exposure to wildfire risk.
Interreg
Department of Forest engineering and economics
Duration: 01.06.2024 - 31.05.2027
RE-ENFORCE - Transnational Cooperation on nature-based solutions for restoring degraded forests of Central Europe
The main objective of the project is to facilitate the restoration of degraded forest ecosystems through naturebased solutions (NBS). The project aims to strengthen transnational cooperation to develop nature based forest restoration strategy, test NBS in Pilot Actions and integrate NBS into a web-based Decision Support System. The project outputs will help forest conservation managers, policymakers, and resource planners to allocate resources better and implement NBS for restoring degraded forest habitats.
Interreg
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.06.2024 - 31.05.2027
In the forest as in the classroom
The primary goal of the project is to train preschool and elementary school teachers to implement forest pedagogy. The Slovenian Forestry Institute will contribute together with the leading partner 'Model Forest Istra' to the development of forest pedagogy in Croatia. This will be achieved primarily through the education of professionals and employees in partner organizations.
Erasmus+
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 15.02.2024 - 15.03.2025
Fem2forests - Innovative pathways for efficient involvement of girls and young women in the forestry sector
With this project, we want to contribute to strengthening the forestry sector in the Danube region at local, regional and international level by involving young women and girls to a greater extent. The project involves 15 partners from 9 countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine), with the Slovenian Forestry Institute as the lead partner.
Interreg
Department of Forest engineering and economics
Duration: 01.01.2024 - 30.06.2026
Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia - SPOZNAJ
The project will greatly accelerate the adoption of open science practices among project partners and make a substantial contribution to the digital transformation of scientific research. Partners will collaborate to share knowledge and experiences related to implementing open science principles and disseminate them to public infrastructure institutes (IZUM, ARNES), public agencies (ARIS, NAKVIS), privately owned higher education and research institutes, researchers and experts from the commercial sector, private researchers, and the broader interested public.
Recovery and Resilience Plan
Management
Duration: 02.08.2023 - 30.06.2026
Cooperation to strengthen the performance of project offices (SKUPP)
The SKUPP project aims to strengthen the competences of the consortium of project offices and researchers at our institutes through the organisation of numerous events, networking between partners, with external stakeholders and other consortia, and with new jobs in project offices. The aim of the SKUPP consortium is to strengthen the supporting environment of project offices in public research organisations and to increase performance in centralised EU programmes during the application, implementation and reporting phases, which will contribute to the wider reputation and visibility of our institutes and, in the long term, to a greater reputation in the international environment.
GIFT - Green Infrastructure for Forest and Trees
The Green Infrastructure for Forest and Trees (GIFT) Project, funded by the Interreg Europe financial mechanism, represents a collaborative effort involving 10 partner institutions from 9 European countries. The project aims to empower and involve the crucial role of green infrastructure, particularly forests and trees, in contemporary regional and urban development, environmental and biodiversity conservation, agricultural, landscape, forestry and other legislation and strategies.
Interreg
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.03.2023 - 31.05.2027
FOREST4EU – European innovation partnership network promoting operational group dedicated to forestry and agroforestry
FOREST4EU is a Horizon Europe project aiming at connecting existing Operational Groups (OGs) from different countries around Europe, to favour the transfer of knowledge and best practices between experts in this field. The main goal is to develop a European multi-actor network to promote and disseminate best practices related to the innovation of national forest and agroforestry among EU countries.
Horizon Europe
Department of Forest engineering and economics
Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
OptFORESTS
OptFORESTS, a Horizon Europe project financed by the EU, will support the protection and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe, by increasing cooperation and knowledge sharing to foster adaptation to climate change and biodiversity-supporting practices in forestry. The project will generate research outputs supporting the choice of more diverse FRM adapted to future climates, and inform assisted gene flow and migration, foster the sustainable use, adaptation and resilience of naturally-regenerated forests, develop methods to expand and diversify nursery production, analyse and develop nature-based solutions, tools and new cultural trajectories and demonstrate biodiversity restoration solutions for degraded forest ecosystems.
Horizon Europe
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.11.2022 - 31.10.2027
REWINNUSE
REWINNUSE project if focused on the reuse of discarded wood and alternative wood species and the development of wooden windows for complete disassembly. In cooperation with the project partners (M Sora, Biotechnical faculty of the University of Ljubljana, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research NIBIO and the Slovenian Forestry Institute), the project covers two main areas, through which we are promoting in implementing circular economy principles in the wood processing industry and beyond.
EEA and Norway Grants
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.04.2022 - 30.04.2024
PathFinder
It is often not the knowledge that hinders change but the acceptance of the knowledge by stakeholders and uptake in transformative policies. PathFinder aims to demonstrate a mobilization of scientific approaches in co-design of forest management pathways that navigate these trade-offs to identify the decisions and policies that act as steppingstones in achieving these pathways.
Horizon Europe
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.03.2022 - 28.02.2025
Forest-wood value chain and climate change: transition to circular bioeconomy (P4-0430)
The overall objective of this research programme is to identify current challenges along the entire forest-based value chain and to search for optimal solutions by using all available knowledge and resources (laboratories and databases).
ARRS
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2027
Ecophysiological, morphological and growth response of fir and beech along the geographical gradient - basis for predicting future development trends (J4-3086)
List of Work Packages: WP1: Ecology of beech and silver fir WP2: Beech and silver fir growth responses WP 3: Wood anatomy characteristics of beech and silver fir WP 4: Monitoring beech and fir forests with time series of satellite images WP 5: Modelling and future response scenarios of beech and silver fir
ARRS temeljni raziskovalni program
Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture
Duration: 01.11.2021 - 31.10.2024
ROVI – Innovative radar and optical satellite image time series fusion and processing for monitoring the natural environment
Earth observation plays an important role in achieving sustainable development by providing spatial information to support policy, planning, and decision making. The serious changes in the natural environment are becoming societal problems hence detailed and uptodate information is essential. The proposed project aims to contribute to this challenge by developing advanced solutions for monitoring and predicting processes in the natural environment. We focus on satellite-based observation of grasslands, wetlands, and forests, because these are valuable habitats as well as some of the most important natural carbon sinks.
The unrevealed information on soil biodiversity in leached waters (J4-3098)
The project aims to join in the team relevant national soil research institutions from various soil management environments (forests, arable soils, permanent crops areas, pastures, meadows) for bringing together current soil biodiversity monitoring approaches from different soil managements, standardise them at the comparable level, supplement these approaches with the proposed eDNA methodology, test the feasibility and reproducibility of the eDNA approach on specific research questions in various soil management environments, compare eDNA results with classical soil DNA biodiversity for standardisation, and finally propose the monitoring-level eDNA based methodology to existing soil biodiversity monitoring programmes.
ARRS temeljni raziskovalni projekt
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.10.2021 - 30.09.2024
FORGENIUS
FORGENIUS is a H2020 project, funded by the EU, which will give an insight into the diversity of European forests and their resilience to climate change. The project uses state-of-the-art technology and knowledge in plant and evolutionary biology, ecology, remote-sensing, genomics, genetics, modelling, and forestry. It aims to upgrade the current European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (EUFGIS) platform, by adding new types of data and information on the Genetic Conservation Units, allowing predictions of the fate of European forests in the short, medium, and long term.
Horizon2020
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2025
LIFE BEAVER - LIFE with the beaver, wetlands and climate change
In the project, researchers from the Slovenian Forestry Institute will assess the value of ecosystem services provided by beavers and create a model of the potential spread of the beaver population. It is high time that people adapt to the changes brought to aquatic environments by beavers, and not the other way around. Therefore, the LIFE BEAVER project welcomes the return of the beaver. The partners will make every effort to ensure that residents living near water bodies in Slovenia and Croatia accept the return of the beaver.
LIFE
Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring
Duration: 01.09.2020 - 30.04.2025
LIFE SySTEMiC - Close-to-nature forest Sustainable Management under Climate Changes
The aim of the LIFE SySTEMiC project (Close-to-nature foreSt SusTainablE Management under Climate Changes) is to use the “tool” of genetic diversity to protect our forests against climate changes. The basic idea is relatively simple: the higher the genetic diversity of the trees in a forest, the more likely it is that some trees will have genetic characteristics that make them more adaptable to climate change, thereby increasing the resistance and the resilience of the forest system.
LIFE
Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics
Duration: 01.09.2019 - 31.08.2024
LIFEWATCH - DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF THE SLOVENIAN DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE
The aim of the project is to provide Slovenian researchers with better conditions for carrying out research projects on monitoring and predicting the effects of global change on biodiversity by purchasing research equipment. The project aims at infrastructure development or investment in more sophisticated research equipment, which is essential for the implementation of international and national projects and for improving socio-economic impacts on biodiversity.
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 19.11.2015 - 31.08.2021
eLTER – INTEGRATED EUROPEAN LONG-TERM ECOSYSTEM, CRITICAL ZONE & SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
LTER-Slovenia brings together 16 highly equipped research sites where long-term socio-ecological research is conducted at two underground karst sites, two freshwater lakes, 11 terrestrial forest platforms and one marine site. These ecosystem research sites support, enhance and promote national and international multi- and interdisciplinary investigations of long-term biodiversity and ecosystem processes at different spatial and temporal scales. LTER-Slovenia has been on the national research infrastructure roadmap since 2016.
Department of Forest Ecology
Duration: 01.01.2015 - 31.01.2025