MENDELU FFWT and the year 2020

28. 4. 2021

What was 2020 like at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology?

The year that was different in many ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic? The answers are given in the following recap of significant moments from life at the faculty:

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Czech scientists create energy from mango pellets in Cambodia

Experts from the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology at MENDELU are helping to make use of waste from fruit processing while reducing the consumption of firewood in Cambodia. They use the mango pellets to produce fuel briquettes, which are then…

21. 11. 2023
Scientists take samples of driftwood in northern Norway. They aim to find out…

Scientists from FFWT MENDELU have completed a second mission in search of driftwood to the northern coast of Norway. As in 2022, they took samples of driftwood, which will be analysed in the MENDELU dendrochronological and anatomical laboratory. In…

30. 10. 2023
Maples plagued by sooty bark disease, which is also dangerous to humans

Sooty bark disease in Maples is caused by the fungus Cryptostroma corticale. The Sycamore is particularly susceptible. The fungus was apparently introduced to Europe after World War II from the Great Lakes region of North America. For many decades,…

15. 9. 2023
LDF researchers help kick-start forestry in Aragvi, Georgia

Georgia’s Aragvi – a newly established protected landscape area (PLA) of almost 100,000 hectares – is located in three separate valleys about 80 km north of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. “We are working in an area with harsh winters, sultry summers…

28. 8. 2023
FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a new way of using sewage sludge

FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a use for sewage sludge, an unavoidable by-product of the wastewater treatment process. By mixing stabilized sludge with other waste materials, glauconite and biochar, they obtained a substrate usable in forestry…

14. 8. 2023
Science team focuses on the decline of seagrasses, important ocean ecosystems

Seagrass beds are considered ocean rainforests. They are some of the richest marine ecosystems and play an important ecological role in the world of the seas and oceans. Globally, however, seagrass meadows are declining, with a species of seagrass…

4. 8. 2023
FFWT MENDELU has signed EU Mission Soil Manifesto

By signing the Mission Soil manifesto, the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology (FFWT) has committed itself to the protection and restoration of soil at a time when 60% of the soil in the territory of the European Union states is considered …

27. 7. 2023
MENDELU in Mongolia helps with the implementation of the Czech tourist signage…

Mongolia will use the Czech system of marking tourist routes. The Mongolian Tourist Association (MWA) has signed a contract with the Czech Tourist Club in Bogd Khan Mountain, one of the oldest protected areas in the world. The sprawling capital…

11. 7. 2023
School Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny and Forests of the Czech…

The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on 23 June by Tomáš Vrška, Director of the Masaryk Forest School in Křtiny, and Dalibor Šafařík, Director General of the State Enterprise Forests of the Czech Republic. The agreement was created with the…

23. 6. 2023
EXCELLENTIA project will create a centre for forest ecosystem research at FFWT…

The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology MENDELU has signed a grant agreement with the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission for the EXCELLENTIA project financed by the Horizon Europe Programme. The prestigious five-year project …

28. 4. 2023

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MENDELU FFWT and the year 2020

More news

Czech scientists create energy from mango pellets in Cambodia

Scientists take samples of driftwood in northern Norway. They aim to find out…

Maples plagued by sooty bark disease, which is also dangerous to humans

LDF researchers help kick-start forestry in Aragvi, Georgia

FFWT MENDELU scientists have found a new way of using sewage sludge

Science team focuses on the decline of seagrasses, important ocean ecosystems

FFWT MENDELU has signed EU Mission Soil Manifesto

MENDELU in Mongolia helps with the implementation of the Czech tourist signage…

School Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny and Forests of the Czech…

EXCELLENTIA project will create a centre for forest ecosystem research at FFWT…

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