The European Network of Forest Extension Organisations (FOREXT) offers support and international cooperation opportunities to forest extension organisations.
Forest extension covers activities of state administration directed towards supporting private forestry. It supports organisations to build capacities in training and education of private forest owners, supporting the development of their associations, the preparation of forest management plans for private forests, inventorying and marking of private forests, and enforcement of forest legislation in private forests, as well as providing subsidies for more sustainable forest management and organising the sale of wood from private forests.
The network was officially launched on 1 October 2019 as the 12 founding members signed the Memorandum of Understanding. EFI hosts the FOREXT Secretariat.
FOREXT news
FOREXT Fridays webinar: Marteloscope
On 26 June, join us to discover how the Marteloscope tool helps forest advisors and owners make better management decisions.
26 June 2026, 13:00–14:00, CEST
- Forests and people
Member organisations
FOREXT members represent 21 organisations in 16 European countries.
Discover who are our members!
- Centre de la Propietat Forestal, Catalonia, Spain
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague
- Agricultural Advisory Service, Forestry Service Office (LAAS), Lithuania
- Basilicon Consulting, Hungary
- Centre national de la propriété forestière, France
- Forest Advisory Service Centre, LRATC, Latvia
- Forestry Commission, UK
- Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée (IEFC), France
- Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Mas Abogados, Spain
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Science, Poland
- Skogsstyrelsen, Sweden
- Suomen metsäkeskus, Finnish Forest Centre, Finland
- Narodne lesnicke centrum, National Forest Centre, Slovakia
- Skogkurs, Skogbrukets Kursinstitutt / Forestry Extension Institute, Norway
- Teagasc, Ireland
- Unión de Selvicultores del Sur de Europa (USSE), Union of Foresters of Southern Europe
- Silvopastoral Systems research group, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
