FORE is a joint large-scale facility provided by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Umeň University. FORE will provide a basis for research in forestry and related areas: forest ecology, plant physiology, forest biotechnology, molecular biology and genetics, ecophysiology, wood and fibre research, plant-pathogen interaction, plant-animal interaction, forest management, remote sensing for forestry and impacts on forest ecosystems of climate change. The FORE infrastructure provides a unique combination of well-equipped laboratory facilities, experimental forests, a variety of experimental plots, biological archives, and extensive databases from long-term inventories. On the FORE web site (http://www.fore.se/) you will find information about the resources available in the FORE infrastructure.

 

FORE is a unique cluster of leading edge expertise and offers visitors access to laboratories and experimental facilities equipped to high state-of-the-art standards for research projects in forestry and related research fields: It offers 739 user days access.

 

FORE will treat all visitors as full members of the research groups they are joining. Visitors will have individual scientific mentors and will be given full access to the FORE facilities that they have asked to use. The two universities in Umeň are located on the same campus and there are well-established and extensive research links between them. The Umeň university campus has a strong support system for guest researchers and help will be given with logistics and accommodation. There is also a comprehensive welfare system if needed.

 

FORE is supported by the European Commission through the Access to Research Infrastructures (ARI) activity within the Human Potential programme of the 5th framework.

 

For further information, please contact Prof. Anders Ericsson () at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.