International Forestry Student Association

IPFE - International Partnership for Forestry Education

The International Partnership for Forestry Education (IPFE) is a not-for-profit, voluntary partnership to address the challenges and opportunities facing university-level forestry education globally. IPFE facilitates collaboration, and sharing of information, experiences, resources and skills, for education about forests and forestry.

Vision: Our vision is of forestry education that is contemporary, locally-relevant and globally connected, and responsive to the global development agenda.

Mission: IPFE is a global network to assist university-level forestry education to meet society’s needs. It facilitates partnerships between university forestry educators and other relevant institutions to jointly improve the quality and relevance of forestry education programmes.

Priorities: IPFE’s priorities are defined as:

sharing learning and experiences of curricula, courses, methods and joint programming;

strengthening and connecting regional networks in order to share knowledge and address needs;

partnering with student bodies to learn from, support and enhance their learning;

fostering dialogue among diverse interests about forests and forestry education;

enhancing societies’ understanding of forests and forestry; a key role for universities

Homepage : www.ipfe.info

Memorandum of Understanding with IFSA : IPFE_Charter_2007.pdf