The specific fields for the cooperation are as follows:

• ▪ Sustainable Forest Management in the context of Climate Change impact on forest ecosystems;

  ▪ Forest Biodiversity conservation;

  ▪ Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding;

  ▪ Forest Protection and Integrated Pest Management;

  ▪ Long-term Research/Monitoring on forests and valuation of Ecosystem services provided by them;

  ▪ Inventory of national forest resources (NFI) and National inventory of greenhouse gases emissions (NIGHG);

  ▪ Ecological reconstruction of degraded lands through afforestation;

  ▪ Applying of Geomatics techniques in forestry;

  ▪ Sustainable forestry as a Foundation for Wood Energy, bioproducts and biomaterials research and development;

• Recognizing the necessity of strengthening international cooperation in the research field of forestry, both at the regional and European level;

• Improving the level of cooperation through common activities aimed at the exchange of knowledge and the professional development of early-stage researchers.