University of Eastern Finland

School of Forest Sciences

Founded in 1982, the School of Forestry at the University of Eastern Finland is an international research and education centre, providing the highest level of expertise in forestry and related sciences. The School of Forestry is an internationally renowned research and education centre which produces highly competent and responsible professionals with excellent management skills for forestry and other environmental management fields for Finland and the rest of the world. The School's situation in the City of Joensuu places it at the core of a dynamically developing national centre of expertise in the forest, wood, and environmental sciences as well as education.

The School of Forestry has over 300 undergraduates and approximately 80 post-graduate students. Each autumn about 45 new forestry students begin their studies.

Majors

Students major in forest science or in European forestry. At Master’s level they spezialise in selected area of forest science. The spezialisation options are forest ecology and forest protection, silviculture and forest bioenergy, forest mensuration and forest planning, forest economics and forest policy, and forest technology and forest products technology.

CBU students can choose as their major topic bioenergy production, or forest policy and economics.

Research priorities

• Effects of climate change on forests
• Forest ecology and biodiversity
• Multi-objective and participatory forest planning
• Wood science
• Wood procurement
• Forest resource inventory and GIS
• Economic evaluation of forest benefits
• Forest economy and marketing
• Forest energy and its procurement