Sep 27, 2013. /Lesprom Network/. Eeva Hellström from Finland and Frits Mohren from Netherlands have been elected to the European Forest Institute (EFI) Board by the Council in Nancy, France. Dr. Hellström is the leader of the societal training and development activities of Sitra - the Finnish Innovation Fund. Prof. Dr. Mohren chairs the Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group at Wageningen University, as the EFI said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Other EFI Board members are: Dr José Antonio Bonet Lledós, Spain; Prof. Dr. Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza, Italy; Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Guehl, France; Prof. Dr. Michael Köhl, Germany; Prof. Dr. Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Poland and Prof. J. Bo Larsen, Denmark, Chairman of the Board.

The European Forest Institute is an international organisation established by the European states. By the spring of 2013, a total of 25 European states had ratified the Convention on EFI. With its about 130 Associate and Affiliate Member organisations, five Regional Offices and one Project Centre, it offers forest research contacts and collaboration at the European level.