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SLU

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Forest Sciences School for Forest Management

Uppsala Skara Umeå Alnarp

SLU has a nationwide presence, its largest campuses being at Alnarp, Skara, Umeå and Uppsala. SLU has a focused profile, unique in Sweden in areas of strategic importance to society, nationally and globally.

SLU nationwide

Skinnskatteberg

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Br Breakdown of

• f expenditure

Source: SLU's Annual Report 2015

Environmental monitoring and assessment 13 % First and second-cycle education 16 % Research and Third-cycle education 71 %

Total costs: 3,172 mnSEK

• 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

Education programmes

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24 24 fi first-cycle pr 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

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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 trade-
• ffs

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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.

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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

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Incoming students 2016 – 2017 (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 www.slu.se/ skogsmastarskolan/ marketing

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Thank you for your attention! http://www.slu.se/skogsmastarskolan Some information also available in English