International Partnership for Forestry Education

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International Partnership for Forestry Education
Hosny El Lakany Chair, IPFE
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Background

• Forestry Education Workshop, UBC, 2001
• Status of global forestry education
• Lack of an international forestry education forum
• Creating an entity that would link forestry
  institutions through curriculum development and
  networking

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International Partnership for Forestry Education
(IPFE)

• The IPFEs founding members met at FAO, Rome in
  2006, and agreed to initiate a Secretariat for
  the Partnership jointly between UBC and the
  University of Joensuu, Finland. The Founding
  members are
• UBC, Faculty of Forestry
• University of Joensuu, Finland
• Australian National University
• Oregon State University
• University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Univesidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
• World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Kenya
• Centre for International Forestry Research
  (CIFOR), Indonesia
• International Forestry Students Association
  (IFSA)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
  nations (FAO), Italy
• International Union of Forest Research
  Organizations (IUFRO), Austria

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What is the IPFE?

• A new global partnership and a network to share
  information, experiences, resources and skills
  regarding forestry and its allied fields

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Vision

• By 2015, forestry education is responsive to
  globally agreed needs and contextualized in
  locally relevant social, economic and ecological
  settings

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Mission

• Helping institutions concerned with forestry
  education meet societies needs, through
  facilitating forestry educators and students
  engagement with relevant knowledge and
  understanding among each other, and with society

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International Partnership for Forestry Education
(IPFE)

• Approaches
• Sharing learning and experiences of curricula,
  courses, methods and joint programming
• Strengthening and connecting regional networks
  in order to share knowledge and address needs

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Approaches (cont.)

• Partnering with student bodies IFSA
• Fostering dialogue among diverse interests about
  forests and forestry education
• Enhancing societies understanding of forests and
  forestry a key role for universities

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Approaches (cont.)

• Joint programming among forestry schools
  (national and international)
• Faculty exchange (e.g. to fill some gaps), and
  participation in inter-governmental forums to
  inform and influence decisions
• Student exchange
• Training student abroad
• Joint research

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International Partnership for Forestry Education

• Activities
• The First Regional Workshop on Forest Education
  in Africa was held under the auspices of IPFE at
  the World Agroforestry Center, (ICRAF) in
  Nairobi, Kenya in October 2007
• Maintaining the information portal about forestry
  education institutions globally www.ipfe.net .
  The portal will link with other forestry
  information providers such as the Global Forestry
  Information Service of IUFRO and SILVA network

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International Partnership for Forestry Education

• Activities (cont.)
• Supporting the Development of International
  Forest Policy course (several universities)
• Supporting regional forestry education workshops
  in Latin America and Asia
• Facilitating the Canada-China Forestry Education
  Symposia

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IPFE contact

• www.ipfe.fi/
• Jorma NeuvonenDirector, Special Projects
  Faculty of Forestry, University of British
  Columbia
• jorma.neuvonen_at_ubc.ca
• Dr Sari Pitkänen
• Secretary General, IPFE,
• University of Joensuu Faculty of Forest Sciences
  P.O Box 111
• sari.pitkanene_at_joensuu.fi