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This project was a collaboration among 6 European and SE Asian Universities (Helsinki, Life Sciences Prague, Souphanouwong, Suvannakhet, Kasetsart and Chiang Mai) and was sponsored by the European Union's Erasmus+ program.
The project built capacity for sustainable forest management and restoration in Lao PDR and Thailand, by strengthening forest-related higher education. It developed new learning and teaching tools (including online teaching) and trained educators. The aim was to increase the employability of graduates, by setting up an internship system and by matching curricula with national priorities, thus enabling alumni to play leading roles in their country’s involvement in such global initiatives as the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Bonn Challenge etc. The project also fostered "North-South-South" cooperation among the EU, Lao PDR and Thailand.
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Specifically, MSc forestry programs at the two Lao PDR Universities and at Kasetsart University, were upgraded, whilst in northern Thailand, an existing BSc-level course was improved, and a new MSc-level course on forest-restoration sciences was created at CMU's Biology Department, as well as an online diploma course—open to all. FORRU-CMU developed an informal Volunteership Program in forest-restoration, providing work-experience opportunities to both Lao and Thai students/professionals. We also led on co-ordinating dissemination of project outputs, through our new website and social media. Furthermore, FORRU-CMU assisted Souphanouvong University to become a forest-restoration learning hub for Lao PDR, with their own MSc programme on the subject, supported by a FORRU-style tree nursery and trial plot system.
Activities, having been successfully concluded, this project is now in the reporting, accounting and evaluation phase.
For more information on FORRU-CMU's role in this project, please contact Dr. Prasit (CMU Project Co-ordinator)
For activities and announcements please consult the project's web page or leave a comment on the project's Facebook page.
11: Restoring Tropical Forests: a Practical Guide
Available in English, Spanish and French The authors at a publishers' meeting, Kew 2012Restoring Tropical Forests is a hands-on guide to restoring degraded tropical forest ecosystems. Based...
12: Grow a Forest with Lin and Sai - an illustrated story for children
This book is available in a multitude of languages and is open-access. See the download panel on the right, to get a copy in your language. If you cannot find your language there ... you are...
13: The role of botanic gardens in the science and practice of ecological restoration
ABSTRACT: Many of the skills and resources, associated with botanic gardens and arboreta, including plant taxonomy, horticulture and seed bank management, are fundamental to ecological restoration...
14: A Technical Strategy for Restoring Krabi’s Lowland Tropical Forest
This report is one of the outputs from the project “Gurney’s Pitta Research and Conservation in Thailand and Myanmar”, implemented by the U.K.’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)...
15: How to Plant a Forest: The Principles and Practice of Restoring Tropical Forests
FORRU-CMU's second practical training manual was published in 2005. It includes generic principles of restoration theory and practice, applicable throughout the tropics, as well as descriptions...
16: Saving Thailand's Forest: a helping hand from Britain's Darwin Initiative
Kirby Doak was the second of several skilled and enthusiastic Australian Youth Ambassadors, who uplifted FORRU-CMU's education and outreach program, from 2001 to 2010. In this article in Chiang...
17: Reaping the rewards of reforestation
Although rapidly growing human populations make continued tropical destruction and the accompanying loss of biodiversity seem inevitable, Hmong hill-tribe villagers in the north of Doi Suthep-Pui...
18: Implementing the Agenda
The main outcome of FORRU-CMU's first international workshop was the "Chiang Mai Research Agenda for the Restoration of Degraded Forest Lands for Wildlife Conservation in Southeast Asia". This...
19: Forests for the Future: Growing and Planting Native Trees for Restoring Forest Ecosystems
All over Thailand, people who are concerned about the rapid destruction of the Kingdom's once magnificent forest are banding together to plant trees. Gone are the days when plantations of pines...