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Advancing Global Wetland Forest Research

The main aim of LiWeFor is to establish and develop a global network of Living Labs of wetland forest research, education and management. The project team consists of the University of Helsinki and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as top-class research counterparts and the University of Tartu as the recipient.

Strategic Knowledge Transfer

As a driving vehicle of the project, four joint field campaigns to global greenhouse gas emission hotspots in tropical wetland forest regions (Peru and Malaysia) will enforce educational knowledge transfer. It also serves as a proof-of-concept for testing the virtual framework of LLs enabling hybrid formats of skills transfer, teaching and training on a remote mode.

LiWeFor addresses the need to systematically raise the level of expertise among researchers and decision-makers, focusing on enhancing career awareness and enabling a capable scientific workforce.

Project Virtual Framework

Major Project Outcomes

Knowledge Gap

Closing the experience gap between donor and recipient partners.

Carbon Management

Building management strategies for temperate and tropical wetland forests.

Open Data Repository

Creating a global repository of GHG measurements and environmental factors.

Network Basis

Constructing a basis for global spread of the Living Labs network.