Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation SEK 272 million strategic research initiative

SILVA welcomes this enormous opportunity for SLU and Sweden with Five Research Groups and a New Research School - A giant leap towards high quality doctoral education

The grant includes an allocation of SEK 75 million for five recruitment packages where new research groups will be established with a focus on forest management and biodiversity in terrestrial and aquatic environments, tools for structural and functional biodiversity assessment, mapping biodiversity using eDNA, and genetic biodiversity in relation to forest management. SEK 50 million is allocated for an extension until 2030 of the ongoing research programs Future Silviculture and Forest Biology and Biotechnology.

Furthermore, SEK 147 million is allocated to a new research school within Future Silviculture, where more than 50 doctoral students, including 14 industry doctoral students, will be trained.

Read more about the initiative.