31 March, 2017 The JRC Directorate for Sustainable Resources has published a vacancy for the auxiliary contract staff position FG IV Project officer in the field of modelling the forest carbon dynamics in the EU. For details and online application to the post: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?site=IPR&type=AX&category=FGIV
Deadline: 18/04/2017 23:59 Brussels time.

Please note that interested candidates must also apply to the permanent open call for researcher FGIV (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/working-with-us/jobs/vacancies/function-group-iv-researchers), in case they are not already in a valid EPSO reserve list. Giacomo Grassi – LULUCF workpackage Leader European Commission – Joint Research Centre Sustainable Resources Directorate – Bioeconomy Unit 21027 – Ispra (VA)/Italy iacomo.grassi@ec.europa.eu

6 March, 2017 Congratulations to DIABOLO participant Matthias Dees and colleagues on the publication of the paper “Methods for Mapping Forest Disturbance and Degradation from Optical Earth Observation Data: a Review” in Curr Forestry Rep (2017) 3:32–45 DOI 10.1007/s40725-017-0047-2

1 March, 2017 DIABOLO General Assembly, WG meetings and MB meeting 4 to 5 May 2017 in Vienna. For more information, please contact markus.lier@luke.fi

14 November, 2016 The call for abstracts to the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg Germany, 19-22 September, 2017 is now open at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts

The DIABOLO project and the ENFIN network have a joint session: “Forest information for bioeconomy outlooks – a joint session of the European National Forest Inventory Network (ENFIN) and the Horizon 2020 project DIABOLO”. Deadline for abstract submission via the electronic system available at http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/ is 30 November 2016.

11 November, 2016 DIABOLO ventures into the Twittersphere. Follow us at @diaboloprojecte

28 October, 2016 Local stakeholders from Coillte in Ireland of DIABOLO’s sister project ALTERFOR learn about the DIABOLO project at a meeting in Connemara, Ireland.

30 September, 2016 – Reports on the DIABOLO workshop “Policy needs for and provision of forest information for policy making and practice in Europe: state of the art and the way forward”, held in Vienna at the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW).

19–20 September, 2016 – DIABOLO workshop “Policy needs for and provision of forest information for policy making and practice in Europe: state of the art and the way forward”, to be held in Vienna at the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW). Participation to the workshop is by invitation only. Invitation has been sent to a core group of DIABOLO research partners and a range of European and national policymakers and stakeholders. The workshop will bring together providers and users of NFI information at European and national level. The event is jointly organised by ALU-FR, SLU and BFW. For more information on the content of the workshop, please contact Dr. Metodi Sotirov (ALU-FR) metodi.sotirov@ifp.uni-freiburg.de.

Our project Newsletter is available for download, pdf 900kb.

Press release 17 May 2016 DIABOLO bridges the gap between forest information demand and supply in Europe. News from the project meeting held in Copenhagen, 19-20 April, 2016.