> Five new FORWARDS-funded projects to characterise European forest disturbances kicked off

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FORWARDS at the XV SISEF National Congress and in dialogue with regional stakeholders

News release

– 12-10-2026

The FORWARDS team at the University of Molise (UNIMOL) recently presented project results at the national congress of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF). The congress follows a stakeholder workshop the team organised earlier this year to inform climate-smart forestry strategies.

FORWARDS welcomes the last batch of third-party projects

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– 08-10-2026

All FORWARDS calls for grants to third parties are now closed, and the last batch of new projects is now under way.

FORWARDS at the Forest Dialogue in Basel: connecting forest monitoring, science and practice

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– 17-09-2026

The project presents its flagship monitoring and evaluation tool, the ForestWard Observatory, to the forest community and gathers their feedback.

The Meaning of Climate-Smart Forestry – A Narrative Literature Review

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– 29-07-2026

Climate-smart forestry (CSF) is gaining attention as forests are increasingly expected to support climate action while remaining resilient, biodiverse, and socially relevant. This review shows that the concept brings mitigation, adaptation, and the social dimension into a single discussion, but it is understood in different ways across the scientific literature.

Swiss Forests Under Pressure: Declining Growth Across All Altitudes

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– 14-05-2026

Forests play a crucial role in absorbing CO₂ from the atmosphere — but this capacity cannot be taken for granted. A new study published in Functional Ecology (Etzold et al., 2026) draws on 30 years of continuous forest monitoring at 18 sites across Switzerland, spanning elevations from lowland forests at 500 m up to mountain forests near the treeline at almost 1,900 m. The result is one of the most comprehensive long-term assessments of how climate change is affecting forest growth in Central Europe.

Supporting the Biosphere Reserve Action Plan in Alto Molise

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– 07-05-2026

At the end of March, project partner UNIMOL was invited to an event discussing the development of the first Action Plan for the UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserve in Alto Molise.
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