Conference on Life-Long Learning for sustainable forestry

Registration is open until 31^st of May. 

Registration link: https://axacoair.se/go?DihvIPvl

Instructions:

• a title (max 150 characters),
• author(s) with affiliation (authors presenting the paper or poster at the Congress should be designated as the Presenting Author), and text (max 350 words describing context, specific topic of the study, methods, main results, and conclusions in plain writing).
• No figures, tables or list of references should be added. Please note that abstracts may be submitted in English only.

Authors select one of the following options: oral only; poster only; oral or poster.

The length of a presentation is 15 minutes and 5 minutes for questions.

Poster areas will be open and free to visit during the whole Congress.

Authors are limited to a maximum of five abstracts as presenting author, although an individual may be listed as a co-author on several abstracts.

Abstracts must be associated with one of the sessions. Organizers might put you in another theme if they find so fit.

All accepted abstracts will be asked further for publication in Baltic Forestry. Deadline for submission is 31^st of June in the form of extended abstracts/short communication or full paper.

Congress organizers will review the abstracts for scientific quality, topical significance and relevance to the Congress themes and to the particular session to which the abstract is submitted, and assign them as oral or poster presentations. You will be informed by 30^th of April about the type and length of your presentation.

Abstracts will be accepted until 31^st of March 2025. Authors will be informed if their presentation is accepted by 30^th of April 2025.

We look forward to your active participation in the design of the scientific program for the 2025 Life Long Learning Congress in Latvia! 

Link to abstract submission: https://axacoair.se/go?P2mO5ZQ9

08:00 Poster session

09:00 Fika and registering

09:30 Keynote speakers

10:00 Parallel sessions (themes 1, 2, 3) presentations

Theme 1 - Competence providers and needs
Theme 2 - Concepts
Theme 3 - Sustainable development

Session times morning

• 10:00-10:20
• 10:30-10:50
• 11:00-11:20
• 11:30-11:50

11:50-13:30 Lunch with poster session

Session times afternoon

• 13:30-14:15
• 14:30-15:15

15:15 Paus, Poster session, fika
15:30 Session, all
16:15 Wrap-up

16:30 Finish

Competence providers and needs

Moderators:
The sessions are about education in a broad sense from training, vocational and academic courses in the field, campus or e-learning formats. We will discuss future needs and today’s education providers prospects of fulfilling them. Will knowledge be more subject specific or general and what future roles will emerge in the forest sector? Will the sector itself be remade? More specific subjects are:

• Which are the providers of education in participating countries and how is it organised?
• What knowledge and competences will actors need in the future?
• What are the prospects for education providers to fulfil the needs?

Education concepts for lifelong learning

Moderators:
Organised Life-long learning is increasingly acknowledged as a tool to maintain and develop societal and individual needs for a competitive workforce. For forest owners it is the essential path to education since they on average become so middle-aged. However, learning continues all life and attendance to forest days or events also promote learning. The concept of life-long learning has a close connection with flexible learning/distance education, since they fit with older student needs of flexibility, as they often work part time and to a larger degree have parental duties. In Life-long learning many ways to plan and conduct education flourish. In this session we discuss practical and theoretical concepts of life-long learning. Some specific areas are:

• Field education prevalence, guides and similarities with other disciplines.
• Competence development for company employees
• Role of MOOCS
• Set-up of courses
• Digital needs and use
• In/out evaluations
• Pedagogical issues

Learning for sustainable development

Moderators:
Sustainability is a key issue in all development and has since the Earth summit in Rio in 1992 widened into more areas. We will discuss:

• Equal opportunities
• Environment
• Climate
• Internationalisation aspects
• Attractive educations

• Presentation 15 + 5 min questions
• Poster (exhibition, before, lunch, sessions, after)
• Workshop (45 min)

• Bianca Ambrose Oji, Forest Research (UK)
• Dagnija Lazdina, Latvian State Forest Research Institute - Silava
• Aris Jansons, Latvian State Forest Research Institute - Silava
• Ahto Kangur, Estonian University of Life Sciences
• Henrik Hultman, Linnaeus University 
• Rikard Jakobsson,Linnaeus University 
• Erika Olofsson, Linnaeus University 
• Linda Reneland Forsman, Linnaeus University 

Joint transport point from Riga to Salaspils will be announced to participants later.

Getting to Riga airport: For example Air Baltic, SAS, Ryanair, Norwegian, Lufthansa. From airport to city with bus 22 or taxi.

Hotels in Riga: The easiest way to find a hotel is to google “Hotels Riga”.

For you attending the excursion, more information will be announced to participants later.

The excursion will not only take us through Estonia and Latvia but also give some ideas outside the box. More information coming soon.

Riga-Estonia-Riga with stops in Latvia on the road to Estonia.