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The forestry sector faces profound changes. Forests are no longer regarded simply as wood production "factories". Perspectives have broadened and the wide range of outputs from forests has become a keen concern for the whole of society – regions, nations and the global community. Across borders, countries share environmental and social issues. Likewise, forest industries and markets increasingly cross national borders. Consequently, the forester of today must have a broad perspective and be capable of working in an international environment.

To respond to these needs, SLU offers second-year students in SUFONAMA the same course package as the Euroforester MSc programme. The programme is intended for students with a BSc degree or the equivalent in forestry.

The SUFONAMA course consists of a first year at one of three institutions: Bangor (Wales), Copenhagen (Denmark), Goettingen (Germany) and a second year at one of the five participating institutions, including, in addition, Padova (Italy) and Alnarp (Sweden). The building blocks are existing Master’s programmes as well as research and network services. The aim of the first study year is to provide a thorough and broad grounding in sustainable forest and nature management. There is thus a single common first year programme specification – the learning outcomes are similar for the three first year institutions and will allow students to choose freely among the five specialisation options in their second year. SLU offers a programme for the boreal forestry specialisation. In the summer following their first year all students meet in a common module offered by one of the participating institutions.