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 The regional project Silva Mediterranea-CPMF (project financed by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and executed by GIZ) offers six MEDFOR scholarships for female students from Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey with an amount of € 24,690 per student over two years, including university fees for the two year MSc programme and travel costs to Winter School.

 Applications will be opened until 20th of May.

MEDfOR is a two-year world-class Erasmus Mundus Master Course Programme that answers a call for a coordinated approach throughout the Mediterranean basin to develop reliable information and tools - based on sound science and a multidisciplinary approach, in order to improve Mediterranean forestry and natural resources management and policy-making.
09 January 2013
IFSS 2013 News

Dear IFSA friends,
Just four months has been since the last Symposium, which was take place last summer in Turkey, and we are about to start the next edition. As most of you know, the 41^st International Forestry Students’ Symposium will be celebrated in Spain from the 1^st to the 15^th August 2013.

Author(s): Andrea Vasquez
FAO has published the most recent inFOnews. In this issue you can take a look at the special section regarding the last COFO & WFW 2012. See all the detailed information af the side events: expert suggestions, milestone decisions, next actions to take, and agreements reached that are relevant to all the  world's citizens. Also you can learn about what FAO's forest section is doing now, and forthcoming meetings. Don't forget to read the article about IFSA!

Here the magazine: inFOnews

Author(s): Andrea Vasquez
Thanks to FAO support 19 students representing the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA) were able to attend to the  Committee on Forests (COFO) and World Forest Week (WFW) 2012. Attending COFO and WFW 2012 was very important for students as it allowed them to identify and get up to date in the most pressing issues facing the forestry sector.
Read the full report here: IFSA COFO & WFW report 2012

Author(s): Juliette Mouche
The story I want to tell you starts when, from an idea used during the IUFRO World Congress in 2010 in Seoul, South Korea, we drew, together with members from the LC BOKU, Austria, the IFSA tree with its birds and surrounding trees on a big white poster in order to create an interactive presentation of the IFSA structure and of its missions.
Read the full report here: Around Regional Meetings

29 May 2012
IFSS 2014 needs organizers

Last year the IFSS was in Finland, where this picture was taken. This year it will take place in Turkey and 2013 in Spain. But what is next? 2014 is seeking for another great organizing team for IFSS.

Is your LC/country ready to organize this great international event for August 2014?

Story of “IFSA 40 Stories”

IFSS-International Forestry Students’ Symposium has always been the most important annual event for IFSA. This year, 2012, will be the 40^th birthday of IFSS in Turkey. For this reason, we want to celebrate 40^th IFSS by collecting the stories of IFSA, the stories of YOU, into the booklet “IFSA 40 Stories”.

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