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Obituary
© Archive material of the Forest Research Institute of theGeneral Directorate of State Forests in PolandProf. Dr. habil. Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki 26. November 1954 – 23. April 2024We were deeply saddened to receive the news last week that our friend and colleague Prof. Dr. habil. Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki passed away in Warsaw at the age of 69.Between 2002 and 2007, he made a significant contribution to establishing the first international Master's degree programme in Forest Information Technology (FIT) at our university in cooperation with the Warsaw University of Natural Sciences; from 2005 ...

Autumn School finishes in good spirits!
The Autumn School at Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde with the Theme; Virtual Forest has successfully been completed as part of one of the Erasmus Plus Projects . Students from France, Spain, Brazil and Vietnam participated in this program. Participants acquired practical knowledge and experience in the use of LiDAR device and flying of drones to obtain terrestrial and point cloud data respectively.Students were obtaining their “own” point cloud data with drones, LiDAR device and the 360 degree camera for panorama images. They were also taught the use of R programming software, ...

The Faculty of Forests & Environment celebrates its 30th anniversary - A look back!
On 30.09.2022 the Faculty of Forest and Environment celebrated its 30th anniversary. The celebration took place on the forest campus of the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde!In the morning festive lectures were held in the auditorium, in the afternoon exciting insights and visions for the future from graduates from our five study programmes and 30 years of faculty, as well as other great activities such as wood moving with horses, archery, music and a wide range of culinary offerings!

Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Forest & Environment
Dr. Helmut Volk from the Forest Research Institute Freiburg held a highly regarded lecture on 'Cultural Forests of Europe' at the HNEE on 14.10.2022. In the center of his remarks were recent landscape-historical-vegetation-scientific research results that numerous Central European forests have already been strongly changed by human settlement and use history for two to three thousand years, thus representing 'cultural forests'. It can therefore by no means be assumed, says Volk, that the main clearing activity in the forests, especially from the Middle Ages onwards, came from beech-dominated 'virgin ...

Foundation of the Competence Center „Transformation for a Sustainable Future in South-East-Asia“ 
In 2018, fhe HNEE has founded an implenented an interdisciplinary competence center named "Transformation for a Sustainable Future in South-East-Asia" (TranSEA) , funded by the BMBF in the DAAD project, "HAW-Modul B". This transdisziplinary competence center aims at further development, expansion and intensive academic networking of HNEE with partner universities in South-East-Asia.Within the framework of such international networking activities about 20 international scientists, scholars and academic staff from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are visting HNEE within the next two weeks. This TranSEA ...