Skinnskatteberg

The School for Forest Management

The campus is located in Skinnskatteberg in south-central Sweden, 180 km NW of Stockholm. Here forestry education has been provided since 1945, with the objective to meet society’s increased needs for operational manager training in Sweden.

The School for Forest Management rests on four major pillars of activities:

• Education , with the BSc programme in Forest Management
• In-service training
• International co-operation
• Applied interdisciplinary research on Sustainable Forest Management

Other main fields of expertise are rural development, forest governance, landscape planning, pedagogical methodologies, curriculum development and institutional capacity building.