Multi-level Education Towards Advanced Forestry

Programme 2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (EN): METAFor project’s objective is to develop and apply an innovative multi-level cross-border educational platform with new digital applications in the field of the sustainable forest management in the region.

Description (FI): METAFor hankkeen tavoitteena on kehittää ja soveltaa innovatiivista sekä monitasoista rajat ylittävää koulutusalustaa, jolla käytetään uusia digitaalisia sovelluksia alueen kestävän metsänhoidon alalla.

Description (RU):

Целью проекта METAFor является разработка и применение инновационной многоуровневой трансграничной образовательной платформы с новыми цифровыми приложениями в области устойчивого лесопользования в регионе.

Achievements (EN):

The objective of METAFor has been to develop and apply an innovative multi-level cross-border educational platform on sustainable forest management in the region. Specific objectives of the project have been to: 1. Reveal potentials and obstacles for sustainable forest use in the region and find the ways to solve the problems through providing cross-border information exchange and cooperation by using the expertise of the project group, steering committee and other experts. 2. Improve practical and theoretical skills of forestry practitioners and students and thus improve forestry practices already during the project implementation and in the long run. 3. Disseminate the project results on various levels: local, national and international, aiming at increased cross-border information exchange and cooperation. The activities included 1) Survey (analysis of the current situation in education related to forestry and environment) and development (suggesting means to improve it), 2) Training (developing study curruculae and organizing a set of courses) and 3) Communication (communicating the results to media; developing study curriculae and guidelines for end-users). The project outputs included 1) The seminar organized by the project together with the Steering Committee with the involvement of decision makers, stake holders, end users, researchers and practitioners helped in defining the problems that hamper sustainability in forest use and stimulate the cross-border cooperation in solving these problems, 2) 15 courses and trainings on different levels targeted for the university students, forestry practitioners and school students, 3) eight communication outputs incl. publications on current cross-border problems in forest sector of the region and recommendations for sustainable forest management as well as revised conceptual and methodological issues. All project outputs have both short- and long-term nature, i.e. their impact is much longer than the project period of financing. The activities of METAFor have been directed to fill the gaps in cooperation, knowledge, and education. The successful implementation of these activities has been ensured by participation of the best regional organizations and experts in the regional forestry sector. The activities enabled the information exchange between decision makers, stake holders, increase cross-border cooperation in forestry and environmental education, improved the knowledge of sustainable forest management and forest ecosystem services in the region.

Website: https://www.luke.fi/en/projektit/metafor/

Expected Results (EN):

Main activities include high-level forest seminars to identify regional challenges and to find solutions on them through cross-border cooperation. By utilizing digital applications, the project also develops and executes education and training for the forestry practitioners, and for the university and school students.

Expected Results (FI):

Keskeisinä toimenpiteinä hanke toteuttaa korkean tason seminaareja metsäalan toimijoille, ja joiden avulla voidaan tunnistaa alueelliset haasteet sekä löytää niihin ratkaisuja rajat ylittävän yhteistyön avulla. Digitaalisia sovelluksia hyödyntämällä hanke kehittää ja toteuttaa myös metsäalan ammattilaisten sekä yliopistojen ja koulujen opiskelijoiden koulutusta.

Expected Results (RU):

В рамках проекта будет проведена серия семинаров высокого уровня по тематике лесопользования для выявления региональных проблем и поиска решений на базе трансграничного сотрудничества. Проект также использует цифровые приложения для обучения и подготовки специалистов в сфере лесного хозяйства, а также для студентов университетов и школ.

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Sustainable management of natural resources Education and training Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Thematic Objective: Support to education, research, technological development and innovation

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Luonnonvarakeskus

Address: Finlandiantie 18, 58450 Punkaharju, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.luke.fi

Total budget: EUR 280 171.55

Forest Research Institute, Karelian Research Centre, RAS

Name: Forest Research Institute, Karelian Research Centre, RAS

Address: Pushkinskaya Str., 11, 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.forestry.krc.karelia.ru

Total budget: EUR 49 191.60

LUT-yliopisto

Name: LUT-yliopisto

Address: Skinnarilankatu 34, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lut.fi

Total budget: EUR 45 894.10

Helsingin yliopisto

Name: Helsingin yliopisto

Address: Fabianinkatu 33, 00014 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.helsinki.fi

Total budget: EUR 59 136.89

Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Name: Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University

Address: Institutskii per 5 , 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.spbftu.ru

Total budget: EUR 57 408.84

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Summary

Project name (EN): Multi-level Education Towards Advanced Forestry

Project acronym: METAFor

Project start date: 2019-09-01

Project end date: 2022-08-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 491 802.99

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 274 986.26

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 48.00%

Co-financing sources:

Third-country contribution: Russia: EUR 124 256.00

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2014 - 2020 South-East Finland - Russia ENI CBC

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2024-01-29

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71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

320 / 320 (100%)

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Multi-level Education Towards Advanced Forestry

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