Upcoming summer school – Adapting forests to climate change: Operationalizing assisted migration
Building on the success of its inaugural edition in 2023, the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU), and EVOLTREE will collaboratively host the third Summer School on Adapting Forests to Climate Change: Operationalizing Assisted Migration, to be held at the Forestry Training Centre of Austrian Research Centre for Forests, FAST-Traunkirchen, from 28th July to 1 August 2025.
This summer school aims to provide in-depth insight into the Assisted Migration of forests in climate change with a focus on models to guide decision support. Specific topics are:
- Develop machine-learning based models to identify and spatially map adapted and maladapted populations of forest tree species in climate change.
- Quantitative genetic mechanisms of local adaptation and, through excursions to forest provenance trials.
- Integration of assisted migration with forest tree breeding, and the primary delivery systems of adapted forest reproductive material, including seed orchards and forest nurseries.
- Digital Innovation Technologies in Forestry: high- throughput phenotyping for analyzing biotic and abiotic stressors and much more under controlled conditions
👩🎓 WHO CAN APPLY?
Master’s students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and professionals in forestry, genetics, and climate adaptation.
🎓 Earn ECTS credits from CZU upon course completion!
You can find more details and application instructions here.
