Research training in forest sciences

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Research training in forest sciences
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
Marketta Sipi 24.11.1005
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Forestry departments

• Department of forest ecology
• Forest ecology
• Forest tree ecology, Forest soil science,
  Peatland ecology and forestry, Silviculture,
  Tropical silviculture
• Department of forest economy
• Forest economics
• Business Economics of Forestry, Social Economics
  of Forestry
• Forest products marketing
• Department of forest resource management
• Forest resource science and technology
• Forest inventory, Forest planning, Forest
  technology, Wood technology

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Staff and PhD students

• Academic staff
• 17 professors, 9 university lecturers, 3
  assistants financed by the budget
• Other staff
• Secretaries, administration, financed by the
  budget
• Total number of PhD students
• about 80-100
• about 50-60 active post-graduate students working
  at the departments, research financed by external
  sources

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Graduate schools

• Ministry of education and Academy of Finland are
  financing
• Students can get salary for 4 years, at most
• Graduate schools are offering PhD courses
• Present graduate schools forestry departments are
  participating
• Forest Sciences
• Forest ecology and forest economy
• University of Helsinki
• International Doctoral programme in Pulp and
  Paper Science and Technology
• Wood technology

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International Doctoral Programme in Pulp and
Paper Science and Technology

• International graduate school
• Teaching language is English
• Latest pulp and paper technologyu and related raw
  material questions
• About 40 Finnish and foreign students (amount of
  foreign students about 1/3)
• About 15 students are financed by ministry
• Seven Finnish universities are involved, about 40
  PhD courses are offered by the universities