Velux Stiftung | Forestry research program

In 2023, the Velux Stiftung launches its new Forestry program on climate change, biodiversity and forest products. A yearly budget of CHF 2 million will be dedicated to the program. One call for proposals will be published every year from 2022 to 2026.

Goals:The overall objective of the program is to improve sustainable forest management that addresses the pressing problems of climate change and biodiversity loss as well as society’s need for forest products.
Thematic focus of the call:

• Innovative, sustainable and integrative forest management to develop and provide solutions for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing resilient ecosystems services and supplying sustainable forest products
• Incentives for action and behavioural change by transforming theoretical and abstract values of forest products and services

• Research projects: with a high potential to change forestry practice, which include stakeholder engagement and targeted knowledge transfer.
   
• Science-practice projects: which aim to facilitate collaboration between researchers and practitioners to improve accessibility and comprehensibility of specified forest management findings relevant to stakeholders.
   

• Both individual researchers and research groups can apply.
• At least one applicant (e.g. professor, group leader) must be a permanent employee of a university or other permanent research entity anywhere in the world.
• Other partners can be forest owners, practitioners, consulting or (non)-governmental agencies, etc.

• Submission: 19 September 2022
• Decision: March 2023