European Tropical Forest Research Network

Greek Focal Point for ETFRN

Mr Nikolas S. Efstathiadis
Directorate of Forest Resource Development
Ippokratous St. 3
GR-10164 Athens
Greece
Phone: +30 1 3608042/3626939
Fax: +30 1 3608685

Greek capacity
Training courses
Vacancies
Funding opportunities
Meetings and conferences

Established in 1991, the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) is a forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with (sub-)tropical forest research. The ETFRN Network seeks to catalyse and promote the involvement of European research expertise towards the conservation and wise use of forests and woodlands in tropical, subtropical and Mediterranean countries.

Current ETFRN products include:

• The ETFRN webservice - easy access to relevant web-based information on topics such as climate change; forests and water; biodiversity; non-timber forest products etcetera; also many links to opportunities for forest research in the tropics, subtropics and Mediterranean
• ETFRN workshops - catalysing need-based research
• The ETFRN News - thematic issues informing on current research relevant to topics such as innovative financing mechanisms for sustainable forest management; non-timber forest products; biotechnology in forest research; biodiversity; climate change etc.
• Research exchange Q&A service - targets requests for science based information; research cooperation; job opportunities; publication and meeting announcements to subgroups of ETFRN participants, according to their stated topics of interest .

The network has participants in 16 European countries, including Norway, Switzerland, and all European Union member states, except Luxemburg. There is an ETFRN national focal point in each of these countries. The names and addresses of the focal points are available under National Focal Points. For more background information see the Coordinating Unit website.