FOREXT Fridays

FOREXT Fridays is a webinar series bringing together forest advisors, professionals, and stakeholders from across Europe to share knowledge, exchange experiences, and explore tools and practices in forestry.

Learn and discuss topics such as sustainable forest management, agroforestry and non-wood forest products. Each session features a guest speaker or practitioner presenting a case study, tool, project, or policy topic, followed by an open discussion.

Who is it for?

FOREXT Fridays is open to anyone with a professional or research interest in forestry and forest advisory services, including:

Forest advisors and extension workers
Forest owners and managers
Researchers and academics
Policymakers and public authorities

Whether you are looking to discover new approaches, share your own experience, or simply stay connected with what is happening across Europe’s forest sector, FOREXT Fridays is your meeting point.

FOREXT and FORADVISE

In 2026, FOREXT is partnering with the EU-funded project FORADVISE for FOREXT Fridays. The webinars cover topics prioritised by the FOREXT network and FORADVISE Working Groups.

Agenda

Webinar 30 October: Closer-to-nature forestry
Agroforestry
Marteloscope

Closer-to-nature forestry: from principles to practice on the ground

Closer-to-nature forestry promotes the processes and structures of natural forests and cultural woodlands at different stages, helping to increase biodiversity and safeguard ecosystem services. Yet this approach to sustainable forest management is sometimes not well known among forest managers and owners. Forest advisors play a crucial role in changing that: encouraging natural tree regeneration, ensuring respectful harvest conditions, minimising other management interventions, and preserving and restoring forest soils.

This session of FOREXT Fridays explores good practices and tools to promote closer-to-nature forestry, with practical examples from the ground.

Speakers (coming soon)

Agroforestry in practice: sharing knowledge and supporting adoption

Agroforestry is gaining ground across Europe — in policy agendas, on farms, and in the conversations between forest owners and their advisors. But awareness does not always translate into adoption.

This session of FOREXT Fridays brings together perspectives on what it takes to move agroforestry from concept to practice: the policy frameworks shaping its uptake and the latest tools and field evidence supporting its implementation.

13:00 | Welcome and introduction
13:10 | What to know about Agroforestry and EU policy support?
- Speaker: María Rosa Mosquera Losada, USC
13:20 | Monitoring grazing and landscape functioning in mountain commons: lessons from Northeast Portugal
- Speaker: José Castro, UPB
13:30 | Silvopastoralism in Practice: the Celta Pig and Sustainable Land Management in Galicia
- Speaker: Iván Rodríguez Paz, ASOPORCEL
13:40 | Questions & Answers
13:55 | Announcements and opportunities board

Speakers

María Rosa Mosquera Losada
University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)

José Castro
Bragança Polytechnic University (UPB)

Iván Rodríguez Paz
ASOPORCEL

Marteloscope: a tool for closer-to-nature management

A Marteloscope is a tool used in forest management to closely evaluate which trees to keep, thin or harvest. In practice, a Marteloscope is a precisely mapped forest plot where every single tree has been recorded, numbered, and assessed.

This session of FOREXT Fridays introduces the Marteloscope and explores two cases in Ireland and Germany.

13:00 | Welcome and introduction
13:10 | Integrate Network: what is a Marteloscope?
- Speaker: Andreas Schuck, European Forest Institute
13:20 | Marteloscope case study in Ireland
- Speaker: Jonathan Spazzi, Teagasc Forestry
13:30 | Marteloscopes in North Rhine-Westphalia as tools for stakeholder engagement
- Speaker: Carolin Stiehl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
13:40 | Questions & Answers
13:50 | Wrap-up: how the Marteloscopes can support forest advisors
- Speaker: Andreas Schuck, European Forest Institute
13:55 | Announcements and opportunities board

Speakers

Andreas Schuck
European Forest Institute

Jonathan Spazzi
Teagasc Forestry

Carolin Stiehl
Wald und Holz NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia’s forest administration)

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