What we do

As non-governmental organization we focus on sustainable community and natural resources development in the Ukrainian Carpathians and work in the following spheres:

Sustainable multi-functional forest management

Projects

  • HYDROFOR: Systems of optimal forest management for enhancing the hydrological role of forests in preventing the floods in Bodrog river catchment
  • Foresters towards life long learning for better forest management 
  • FOR SOC: forests for the society - forests without barriers
  • Skilled foresters = better forests
  • Swiss-Ukrainian Forest Development Project in Transcarpathia FORZA

Climate change mitigation and adaptation projects at local and regional level

Projects

  • LOC-CLIM-ACT: local acting on climate change impacts  
  • Climate of the future needs adaptation! (microproject)    
  • Study of Climate change adaption possibilities of forestry (microproject)    
  • С4:Carbon, conservation and communities in the Carpathians (microproject) 

Energy-efficiency and energy-saving

Projects

  • YES - Young Energy Specialists against energy waste in cross-border schools 
  • Schools towards energy efficiency

Enhancing competitiveness in wood-based sector 

Projects

  • RERAM (REsource efficiency and RAw Materials: Bridging Gaps Between R2I in Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials)
  • SIPPO: support to wood-processing enterprises from Ukraine in accessing the Swiss and the EU markets
  • IN2WOOD: Forest Clusters Development and Implementation Measures of a 6-Region Strategic Joint Action Plan for Knowledge-based Regional Innovation  

Sustainable tourism development 

Projects 

  • Recreation at forest areas and collaboration of foresters with communities, public and stakeholders (microproject)
  • Carpathian Tourist Road 
  • Swiss-Ukrainian Forest Development Project in Transcarpathia “FORZA”

Sustainable community development

Projects
 

  • DETLUP: development through land use planning 
  • Swiss-Ukrainian Forest Development Project in Transcarpathia “FORZA”

Sustainable Mobility

Projects

  • European mobility week: Carpathian network
  • European mobility week in the Carpathians 
  • Cross the border by bike

International and national events

Projects

  • The Lviv Forum on Forests in a Green Economy for countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia, September 11-14.2012 (http://www.unece.org/lviv-forum-2012.html#/)
  • Round table on Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in Ukrainian cities
  • Trainings with international trainers for foresters in Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Zakarpattya on sustainable  forest roads design, non-timber forest products, forest tourism and close-to-nature silviculture