The 2015 Annual Conference and the Seminar “Forest policy research from theory to practice”, will be held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on 30 September – 2 October 2015. The co-organiser for the Conference is Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University.

The Conference and the Seminar will take place in the centre of Saint Petersburg in the Sokos Hotel Olympia Garden (address: Bataiskii Pereulok 3 A, 190013 St. Petersburg).

This year’s open seminar has two main themes: i) Theoretical approaches in and for forest policy research ii) Science-policy and practice interaction: navigating the forest science-policy interface. The conference will end to the field trip in the west of the city centre on 2 October. The registration to the Annual Conference week will be opened in the beginning of May.