MEDFOREM Innovative and integrated approaches, methods and tools for Mediterranean forest ecosystem management

Project Coordinator

Palahí, Marc (marc.palahi@ctfc.es)

 

Project Manager

Rois, Mercedes (mercedes.rois@ctfc.es)

 

Schedule

01.09.2005 – 31.12.2007

 

Homepage

http://www.medforex.net/medforem/

 

Co-ordinator

Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)

 

Objectives

Over the past 10 years forest management decision-making has rapidly evolved in order to address the multifunctional and complex nature of forest ecosystems through the combination of forestry, ecological, economic and policy principles as well as the use of modern computing technology. However, these new multifunctional and quantitative approaches and tools have not yet been employed to address the most threatened Mediterranean forest ecosystems of the southern and eastern sub-regions located in countries like Lebanon, Tunisia and Syria, where forest natural resources are under increasing pressure from over-exploitation, grazing, agricultural development, urbanization and industrial pollution.

 

The objective of the project is to update and improve teaching staff knowledge and skills in relation to current Mediterranean forestry challenges as well as to develop and implement a new international specialised Master Course on Multifunctional Mediterranean Forest Ecosystem Management. The Course will be held twice during the project life, once in Solsona (Spain) and once in Tunisia. The Course will transfer the newest approaches, methods, techniques as well as decision support tools to the higher education institutions from the partner countries taking advantage of the latest scientific results and technological development achieved in European Mediterranean countries.

During the first project year, the Master course will be addressed at teaching staff of the partner institutions. During the second project year the international Master Course will be aimed at Master students in Lebanon, Tunisia and Syria, and it will be given jointly by European experts and a selection of the first year participants.

 

The course will be recognised by the MEDA project partners as an official Master course.

 

Partners

  • Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Spain

  • University of Tuscia, Italy
  • Univeristy of Teshreen, Syria
  • University of Aleppo, Syria
  • National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia (INAT), Tunisia
  • Institut National de Recherches en Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêts (INRGREF), Tunisia
  • Lebanese University, Lebanon