European Forest Institute

Rina Tsubaki looks at the power of story telling on Youtube videos about forest restoration.

Venla Wallius and Fredric Mosley from EFI share some of the results of a recent survey targeting life science students in Europe. They found out that nearly 30% of respondents are very interested in becoming entrepreneurs in the field of bioeconomy, but that there are also barriers that prevent students from pursuing business opportunities.

When thinking about the European Union, we can get the impression that policymaking is complicated, distant, and not relevant to citizens in the EU member states. Think about forest policy. Isn’t it true that forest-related policy decisions are made in our own parliaments guided by our elected politicians only? Well, not really. The decision process is more complicated than that.

When the former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson became the President of EFI’s ThinkForest science-policy forum in 2012, he stated that the EU...