Starting the Master Programme in Tropical Forestry in Tharandt.

The new winter semester has started with the orientation week for our students. What to do on the very first day of university? How to navigate the campus? What to expect from the professors and seniors? There are many such questions in the mind of a new student and to answer these questions, the orientation

Welcoming Dominic – PhD candidate in Global-SDG-campus network

Hi everyone, I am Dominic, I come from Hamburg, Germany. I joined the Chair of Tropical Forestry in October 2022 as a Ph.D. candidate under the DAAD-funded project “forestry curricula study tracks through a Global-SDG-campus network”. The project aims to develop higher education networks in teaching and research regarding forest-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in

Meet Aruna Kainyande – An alumnus & new institute staff member

My name is Aruna Kainyande, and I am from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I live in Dresden, a city that has become my home away from home for the past two years. I have recently joined the Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products in April 2022 as a Research Assistant in the WoodCluster Project.

Tropical Forestry Welcome Weekend: A Touch with Nature and Forests in Germany

Have you ever dreamed of being in the middle of temperate forests with a mixture of broadleaf and needle-leaf tree species? Our first experience with German Forests started at the “Welcome Weekend” of our Tropical Forestry Master Programme, which is a well-known international programme in Germany located in the beautiful town namely Tharandt. The master

Welcoming Shambhu – a doctoral candidate from Nepal

Namaste! My name is Shambhu Charmakar, a DAAD doctoral candidate under the Chair of Tropical and International Forestry, Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the TU-Dresden. I joined the Chair last December 2020. My doctoral project with the title “Reshaping community forestry: analysis of institutional interplay and power dynamics in Nepal” seeks to explore the interplay

Meet Pablo Urbina – Our Nicaraguan international climate protection fellow

Hello everyone, my name is Pablo Urbina Aviles, and I am a Nicaraguan living in Dresden since January 2020, the year of the infamous COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2021, I started my international climate protection fellowship doing research, alongside Professor Jürgen Pretzsch, called: Participatory Guarantee Systems: Agroecological Certification to Enhance Small-Scale Family Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity