Session Program
Preliminary program
May 5th, 2021 – Wednesday (1st 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 6th, 2021 – Thursday (2nd 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 7th, 2021 – Friday (3rd 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 8th, 2021 – Saturday (4th day)
8:30 – 19:00 One-day field trip to Koprivshtitsa city