Event Annual Conference

Let’s get a grip on future shapers creating forest futures

Pre-conference workshop on Horizon scanning at the EFI 2026 Annual Conference

15 September 2026 Växjö, Sweden Linnaeus University campus, Växjö

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This pre-conference workshop introduces horizon scanning techniques which enable users to detect and interpret phenomena that may shape forest futures and can be integrated into research agendas and action plans. The workshop is aimed at EFI members and affiliates, as well as anyone who is “future-curious” about forestry.

Over the course of the workshop, participants will:

understand how Horizon Scanning of the operating environment of forest use can be implemented
generate insights via collaboratively interpreting a couple of change signals with respect to their potential transformative leverage
co-create an update on the state-of-the-art opportunities and challenges of Horizon Scanning within the forest-based sector

Agenda

Time (CEST)	Action
09:00	Welcome and getting creative
09:30	Change signals and their leverage
10:30	Bio break (coffee/tea, provided)
11:00	Interpretation of selected change signals, part 1
12:30	Lunch (provided)
13:30	Prologue to afternoon’s programme
14:00	Interpretation of selected change signals, part 2
15:30	Stretching break
15:45	Opportunities and challenges
17:00	Close

Full-day workshop 9:00–17:00 CEST
Half-day workshop 13:30-17:00 CEST (participants may join for the lunch at 12:30 or arrive at 13:30)