Register now for the EFI Mediterranean Network Forum 2026!
The second edition of the EFI Mediterranean Network Forum renews collaboration and invites new participation in EFIMED’s network connecting forest researchers, policymakers, and practitioners across the Mediterranean.
The EFI Mediterranean Network Forum 2026 takes place over five days to allow researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to meet in person, foster new collaborations, and work together for healthy and resilient Mediterranean forests.
The Forum will take place at the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia (Monday and Friday) and at the Valencia Polytechnic University (Tuesday and Wednesday). The programme features:
- A high-level session with policymakers to explore the role of forests as powerful tools for diplomacy, fostering cross-border cooperation in the Mediterranean, and how development cooperation funding can play a key role in financing environmental projects.
- Mid-term review of Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda (MFRA) 2030 reflecting on achievements, challenges, and opportunities since its launch in 2022, and continuing and new needs going forwards.
- Interactive sessions focussing on hot topics identified by the Scientific and Technical Committee organising the event as particularly relevant to Mediterranean communities. Topics are chosen to spark debate and reflect diverse perspectives in a space for open and inclusive dialogue. To ensure that a diversity of voices is heard, the sessions will include keynote presentations, reverse panels, live interactions with the audience, and poster flash talks.
- Networking opportunities, with interactive components in all sessions and a dedicated networking session to connect innovators and participants.
- Youth engagement through the continued involvement of leading youth organisations (i.e. the International Forestry Students Association and the FAO Mediterranean Youth Task Force) and a featured session spotlighting new voices from Mediterranean forests.
- Field visits connected to the topics of the interactive sessions (locations in Valencia province to be announced).
- Back-to-back to the event, a thematic workshop focuses on a characteristic Mediterranean tree species (Ceratonia siliqua) and its role in the regional landscape, culture, and economy, giving space to groundbreaking innovations.
Sign up now to join us in Valencia!
Previous event:
In 2022, the inaugural EFI Mediterranean Network Forum in Barcelona saw the launch of the Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda (MFRA) 2030. The event offered wide-ranging collaboration on key themes and cross-cutting issues for Mediterranean forest management for resilience, which were explored in the MFRA.
