Shaping climate‑resilient forests: Assisted Migration Summer School 2026
The Assisted Migration Summer School 2026 in Vienna, Austria, offers in‑depth training on genetic, modelling and digital approaches for adapting forests to climate change through lectures, practical sessions and field excursions.
Building on the success of its inaugural edition in 2023, the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU), EVOLTREE and IUFRO will collaboratively host the fourth Summer School on Adapting Forests to Climate Change: Operationalizing Assisted Migration, which will take place from 20-24 July 2026 in Vienna, Austria.
Who can participate?
Master's students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, practitioners, or professionals passionate about adapting forests to climate change while utilising and conserving genetic variation within tree species.
Registration
Register by 15 May 2026! Find the registration form and guidelines here.
What are the topics?
This summer school aims to provide in-depth insight into the Assisted Migration of forests in climate change, with a focus on models to guide decision support. Specific topics are:
- Develop machine-learning-based models to identify and spatially map adapted and maladapted populations of forest tree species in climate change.
- Quantitative genetic mechanisms of local adaptation and, through excursions to forest provenance trials.
- Integration of assisted migration with forest tree breeding, and the primary delivery systems of adapted forest reproductive material, including seed orchards and forest nurseries.
- Digital Innovation Technologies in Forestry: high-throughput phenotyping for analysing biotic and abiotic stressors and much more under controlled conditions.
