WIFORCE Annual meeting
It's time for the first annual meeting of the Wallenberg Initiatives in Forest Research! For two days we will listen to interesting research, talk about the goals for the research program, mingle, and get to know each other.
Start date: 21 January 2026 08:00
End date: 22 January 2026 16:00
Organiser: Wallenberg Initiatives in Forest Research
Location: Umeå
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WIFORCE Annual Meeting Program
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Program
Program first annual meeting of WIFORCE
21-22nd of January 2026
Elite Hotel Mimer, Umeå
Day 1
8:30 All PhD-students meet-up in Mimersalen with fika
9:30 Coffee and check-in, upload presentation
10:00 Welcome & Introduction to KAW and WIFORCE
10:30 Wallenberg Launch Pad (WALP) Sandor Albrecht
10:50 MAW/MMW
11:05 Flash Presentations all PhD-students
11:45 Lunch
12:30 New WIFORCE Group leaders (10 min)
13:30 PhD-student Presentations “Aka_A” (5 min)
14:30 Mingle & Coffee
15:00 WIFORCE Arena Introduction
15:30 Field experiments & Arena mingle / Coffee
16:00 Panel discussion WIFORCE Reference Group
16:30 Mingle with Reference Group
17:00 Keynote Camilla Sandström
17:30 Taming the Vindel River: insights into floating timber in the 1960s and 1970s “Flottning i Vindelälven”
18:00 Free time
18:30 Dinner
Day 2
8:30 Presentations PhD-students “IND_A+B” (10 min)
9:50 Coffee and Mingle
10:30 Keynote Nathaniel Street
11:00 WIFORCE Research School; information
11:15 Closing notes
11:30 Lunch and Activity for PhD-students
PhD-students only: Bus to Bjurholm, Lunch to go.
12:30 MAW/MMW & WIFORCE
Welcome & Opening Remarks
12:45 Participant Presentations
13:30 Planning & Coordination Discussion
14:30 Coffee & Informal Networking