University of Helsinki
Higher Education Cooperation for Forest Landscape Restoration and Sustainable Livelihoods in Bangladesh and Vietnam (FORSU) is a 3-year capacity building project (1 December 2022 to 30 November 2025), which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
The project includes 2 Programme HEIs: University of Helsinki (coordinating HEI) & University of Freiburg, and 2 Partner HEIs in Bangladesh: Rangamati Science and Technology University & Patuakhali Science and Technology University; and 3 partner HEIs in Vietnam: Hue University, Tay Nguyen University & Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry.
Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) emerged as a key approach in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-30), which aims to scale-up restoration of degraded ecosystems to combat the climate crisis while enhancing and protecting livelihoods, food security, water, and biodiversity. Global support to strengthen and fund forest and other ecosystem restoration faces a major challenge: the mismatch between the opportunities for restoration and the capacity (knowledge, skills) needed to support it. Bangladesh and Vietnam are among the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and have a range of policies and programmes to promote and scale-up FLR. Their higher education systems are however, unable to produce graduates that fulfil the domestic or international needs related to FLR.
Our general objective is to strengthen the capacity of partner HEIs to contribute to well-functioning, relevant and accessible FLR education to meet the needs of graduates, employers, and other stakeholders, for the broader benefit of the environment and society. The project builds on previous EU partner experience in capacity-building projects in Asia to improve accessibility, internationalization, and modernization of partner HEI’s FLR-related capacity by transferring experience, competencies, and good practices. A range of interconnected project activities will be implemented to achieve the objectives, with the aim to empower a new generation of multidisciplinary graduates to embed FLR into their socioeconomic and cultural context.
Contact persons:
| University of Helsinki, Finland (coordinating institution)
Dipjoy Chakma, Nicholas Hogarth, nicholas.hogarth@helsinki.fi Adrian Monge, |
University of Freiburg, Germany
Roderich Von Detten |
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| Rangamati Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Nikhil Chakma |
Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Md. Alamgir Kabir |
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| Hue University, Vietnam
Ho Dac Thai Hoang
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Tay Nguyen University, Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong |
Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam
Tran Thi Thu Ha |
