The previous session of the Commission has been held from 9th to 11th march 2010 in Midi-Pyrénées, at the Abbaye de Sorèze (France).

Since its creation in 1980, the objective of joint french finnish forest Commission is to promote exchanges and cooperation between these two important forest countries that are Finland and France, in different domains as public and private forests, development and extension services, training and education and research. Each domain being represented through a college, which groups French and Finnish counterparts.

Its sessions take place alternatively in France and in Finland, every 2 years : in 2006 at the Centre Forestier de la Bastide des Jourdans (France), in 2008 at Joensu (Finland).

In 2010, under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests and with its support, the organisation of the event has been entrusted to CNPF. In particular in the cover of a project entitled ForCoop – that aims to facilitate exchanges between Finnish Forest Regional Centres and French Regional Centres for Forest Ownership, and that organizes a first seminar at the same time and in the same place.

Then the union of these two events will give a large echoe to the results of the workshops, and the occasion for the participants to share a field visit.

Contact person for the Joint French Finnish Forest Commission and for ForCoop project : Clotilde Giry, CNPF Tel. +33 (0)2 38 71 95 51 - clotilde.giry@cnppf.fr

Jointly created by Forêt-Entreprise (magazine published by IDF-CNPF – France), and Sherwood (magazine published by Compania delle Foreste – Italia), the European network of forest sector magazines EUFORMAG has been launched.

Starting from the simple and shared conviction that there is a wide range of forest magazines in Europe, and that quite a lot of the articles published by those magazines are likely to interest others readers, out of their respective frontiers.

And that it is possible then - and desirable - to share part of this common publishing resource, and to open a sort of window on Europe. To enrich concretely the readers’ knowledge with the  practices and actions identified at a European scale, to better appreciate some varied implementations and outputs from different projects, to better identify stakeholders, to facilitate networking, and why not, some common initiatives.

At the moment, the EUFORMAG comprises six magazines from five countries. These target regularly more than 10 000 forest owners, engineers and forest related actors.
Each partner provides to the others some articles, the exchanges being free of rights within this network.

The tool may be useful to facilitate circulating the results from forest projects of a wider European interest. The EUFORMAG partners contribute with a translation.
The network is open, and is supposed to be broadened to some others European partners in 2010.

Please visit the EUFORMAG website: http://www.euformag.eu/


Contact :
Samuel Six, CNPF-IDF - Tél. : 01 40 62 22 85
samuel.six@cnppf.fr