FutureForests Doctoral Network

FutureForests: An MSCA Innovative Doctoral Training Network

Connecting Flagship European Forest Research Infrastructures

FUTUREFORESTS builds a network among leading forest research facilities, training ecologists to better understand forest responses in a changing climate and improve ecological models.

ForesForests are at the forefront of our efforts to mitigate climate change and achieve ambitious goals within the European Green Deal. However, forests are particularly threatened by global change factors such as increasing frequency and severity of climate extremes (e.g., soil drought, heat, high evaporative demand), fires as well as increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen pollutants deposition.

FutureForests combines excellent trainings, diverse supervisions and international mobility for impactful research to benefit society and the economy and to inform forest policies under the EU Green Deal and international climate mitigation efforts (Paris Climate Agreement). FutureForests is timely and connects key facilities for the first time under a doctoral programme to provide next generation scientists with skills and knowledge “most wanted” in academic and non-academic employability sectors.

FuturForests Coordinator: Professor Sami Ullah, Chair in Biogeochemistry, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, UK (Contact: s.ullah at bham.ac.uk).

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