The Sylviculture and Forest Management division

The main objectives of the Sylviculture and Forest Management division or Sylva are the improvement and the reinforcement of research in its fields of activity.

Training activities

The Sylva division teaches the following courses

at the 2nd level (3rd to 5th year students): forestry, afforestation, agroforestry, forest genetics, remote sensing, dendrometry, forest inventory, natural resource and landscape management
at the 3rd level: natural resource and landscape management

Research activities

The Sylva division assumes research activities than can be classified in fundamental research (mostly on forest species) and applied research (on a range of topics, such as lavakas dynamics). Research issues can also be defined by thesis and memoirs topics, within the next subjects: sylviculture, agroforestry, forest genetics, natural resource management and remote sensing.

Mandates

The Sylva Division receives mandates for the formulation of plans for forest management, woody or non woody resource. In order to elaborate those management plans are ue various tools such as geographic information systems, forest inventories and analyses. Therefore, Sylva division can perform training courses on the latter, in addition to management plan conception.