SLU. SLU nationwide Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Forest Sciences School for Forest Management

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1 SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Forest Sciences School for Forest Management SLU nationwide SLU has a nationwide presence, its largest campuses being at Alnarp, Skara, Umeå and Uppsala. Umeå SLU has a focused profile, unique in Sweden in areas of strategic importance to society, nationally and globally. Skinnskatteberg Uppsala Skara Alnarp 1

2 Breakdown of expenditure Total costs: 3,172 mnsek Environmental monitoring and assessment 13 % Research and Third-cycle education 71 % First and second-cycle education 16 % Source: SLU's Annual Report 2015 Education programmes 24 first-cycle programmes 17 second-cycle programmes, mostly in English Over 300 courses Aproximatly 3,800 full-time students 5 students per teacher Good exchange agreements and international collaboration 2

3 24 first-cycle programmes Bachelor's/vocational programmes Agricultural and rural management Animals for Sports and Companion Biology and environmental science Biotechnology Economics Equine science Ethology and animal welfare Forest management Horticultural management cultivation Horticultural management design Landscape management, design and construction Veterinary nursing Longer vocational programmes Agricultural science economics Agricultural science domestic animals Agricultural science rural development Agricultural science food Agricultural science soil/plant Energy systems engineering Environment and water engineering Forestry Horticultural science Landscape architecture Alnarp Landscape architecture Ultuna Veterinary medicine Faculty of Forest Sciences Second largest faculty at SLU 600 Students 570 Employees 58 professors 91 PhD-students 3

4 Faculty of Forest Sciences Departments Ecology Forest Biomaterials and Technology Forest Ecology and Management Forest Economics Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology Forest Products Forest Resource Management School for Forest Management Soil and Environment Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre Unit for Field-based Forest Resarch Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies General research areas Sustainable use of the forest as a natural resource Forest management Remote sensing and forest planning Natural resource economy (of bioenergy etc) Biomaterials and bioenergy - biorefineries Forest as a rehabilitation environment Forest syntheses and analyses scenarios and tradeoffs 4

5 School of Forest Management, Skinnskatteberg Main teaching in the Bachelor of forestry programme and in the real estate program (one year distance teaching) Research in the field of rural development and to some extent in bioenergy from forests and forestry 150 students Bachelor of Forestry, 50 on the real estate program and some 30 employees Sent students 2016/17 from Faculty of Forestry Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Universität fur Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria University of Gloucestershire, Celtenham, UK University of Wageningen, yhe Netherlands University of Padova, Italy Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Note: No staff was sent either in or out. 5

6 Sending institutions 2016/17 to Faculty of Forestry Albert Ludwigs Univesität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Aleksandro Stulginskio Universitetas, Lithuania Czeska zemdelska universzita v Praze, Check Republic Dresden Technische Universität. Germany Eesti maaulikool, Estonia Göttingen, Georg-August Universität. Germany Internationale agraische Hogeschool Larenstein, the Netherlands Göttingen, Georg-August Universität, Germany Hochschule fur Forstwirtschaft, Rottenburg, Germany Sending institutions 2016/17 to Faculty of Forestry (continues) Mendelova zemedelska a lesnicka univerzita v Brne, Czech Republic Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland University of Copenhagen, Denmark Universitita degli studi di Padova, Italy University of Eastern Finland Universitet Gent, Belgia Universitetet for milø- og biovitenskap, Ås Norway Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland Wageningen Universiteit, the Netherlands Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland 6

7 Incoming students (summary) Country Number of students Germany 16 Denmark 15 Latvia 12 Czech Republic 10 The Netherlands 9 Poland 8 Finland 6 Lithuania 6 Estonia 4 Belgium 1 Norway 1 skogsmastarskolan/ marketing 7

8 Thank you for your attention! Some information also available in English 8