Livia Shamir has been granted the Young Urban Forester of 2024 Award

by Rik De Vreese | Jul 9, 2024 | EFUF2024, YUFA

Livia Shamir, Director of the Research Department at Stefano Boeri Architetti, has been awarded the European Young Urban Forester Award 2024! The award panel in particular noted her outstanding contribution to the World Forum on Urban Forestry held in the United States last year. Moreover, Livia is involved in other urban forestry projects in Italy, such as Forestami, Parco Italia, and the Uforest ERASMUS+ project.

The award was started in 2010 by EFUF to recognise an individual’s outstanding contribution to the field of urban forestry in Europe. The award is been given on an annual basis to a person who is at the time of the award under the age of 40.

The European Young Urban Forester of the Year is sponsored by MD² Consulting Ltd and the scientific journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (published by Elsevier).

#EFUF2025 – Save the Date – 3 to 7 June 2025

by Rik De Vreese | Jun 6, 2024 | EFUF2025, Events

#EFUF2025 - Urban Forests for resilient and healthy cities (3 - 7 June 2025)

The City of Zürich, ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landsape (WSL), the Waldlabor Zurich, ArboCityNet and the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) invite you to attend the 27th European Forum on Urban Forestry from Tuesday evening 3 June until Saturday afternoon 7 June 2025.

The draft programme and many more details are available at the presentation here (pdf) and in the video recording below.

EFUF Association Annual General Assembly, 22 May 2024, Zagreb

by Rik De Vreese | May 16, 2024 | EFUF2024, General Assembly

We kindly invite all EFUF members and EFUF enthousiasts to participate in the Annual General Assembly on Wednesday 22 May 2024, between 18:00 and 19:30, in the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology of the University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 23, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.

The agenda for this meeting is (Presentation in pdf including background information):

Approval of the 2023 annual account (Rik)
Approval of the 2023 annual report (Clive)
Approval of the 2024 activity plan (Clive)
Approval of the 2024 budget plan (Rik)
Presenting and inviting candidate Board Members (Clive)
Election of the new members (Clive)
Discharge from liability of the directors (Rik)
Short open forum (Clive)

All interested are welcome to join the meeting.

Related documents

Report of the General Assembly Meeting 22 May 2024

Official annual account (in Dutch)

EFUF 2024 Book of Abstracts

by Rik De Vreese | May 13, 2024 | EFUF2024

The Book of Abstracts for EFUF2024 is now available.

Follow this link to see and download your copy.

Corrections

page 129 – correction of affiliation for Sitzia, Tomasso: Sitzia, Tommaso | Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF), Università degli Studi di Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD)