Session Program

Preliminary program

May 5^th, 2021 – Wednesday (1^st day)

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

8:30 - 9:30 Opening Ceremony

8:30 - 8:40 Prof. D.Sc. Ivan Iliev – Rector of University of Forestry, Sofia

8:40 - 8:45 Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry

8:45 - 9:00 Ass. prof. Marius Dimitrov, Dean of Faculty of Forestry, Sofia – “Forestry: Bridge to the Future”

9:00 - 9:30 Anniversary program

Plenary session

9:30 – 10:00 Key lecture 1: Valeriu-Norocel NICOLESCU: ADAPTIVE SILVICULTURE, A ”MUST” STRATEGY IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

10:00 – 10:30 Key lecture 2: Mart-Jan SCHELHAAS: EFISCEN SPACE – A HIGH-RESOLUTION, EMPIRICALLY-BASED FOREST SIMULATOR FOR EUROPE

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 Key lecture 3: Georgi KOSTOV: FORESTRY BETWEEN CONSERVATISM AND POPULISM

11:30 – 12:00 Key lecture 4: Raffaele SPINELLI: FOREST ENGINEERING: NEW TRENDS, NEW CHALLENGES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 15:00 FOREST DYNAMICS, GROWTH AND YIELD

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 18:00 ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC FACTORS IN FOREST AREAS

18:00 – 18:30 Discussion

19:30 – 22:00 Anniversary cocktail

May 6^th, 2021 – Thursday (2^nd day)

08:30 – 11:10 BIODIVERSITY AND NATURE CONSERVATION

11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 DENDROCHRONOLOGY

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 16:35 GENETICS AND TREE BREEDING, SEEDS AND NURSERY PRACTICES, AFFORESTATION

16:35 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 18:40 FOREST ENGINEERING

18:40 – 19:10 Discussion

May 7^th, 2021 – Friday (3^rd day)

08:30 – 11:10 SOILS, PHYTOREMEDIATION AND MONITORING

11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:05 FOREST ECOPHYSIOLOGY

13:05 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:40 FOREST EDUCATION, POLICY AND REGULATION

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:05 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND FOREST PRODUCTS

17:15 – 17:30 Discussion

17:30 – 18:30 General Discussion

19:30 – 22:00 Folk-style dinner

May 8^th, 2021 – Saturday (4^th day)

8:30 – 19:00 One-day field trip to Koprivshtitsa city