On 22 June 2026, from 14:00 to 15:30, OptFor-EU will organise a joint webinar with the FORWARDS project entitled “From Observation to Optimisation: How Forest Monitoring Tools can lead to Climate-Smart Decisions.” The event will explore how European foresters can transform increasingly complex climate and forest monitoring data into practical management strategies, at a time when climate-related impacts such as prolonged droughts and bark beetle outbreaks are becoming more frequent.
The webinar will present the newly released OptFor-EU Decision Support System, designed to provide forest managers with science-based options for optimising forest ecosystem services and improving forest resilience. The session will also include a practical example from one of OptFor-EU’s eight case studies, showing how the DSS can be applied to real forest management contexts.
In parallel, the FORWARDS project will introduce the ForestWard Observatory, a platform that combines ground-based information with remote sensing to provide a pan-European view of forest vulnerability. This evidence base aims to support Climate-Smart Forestry by helping monitor disturbances, vulnerabilities and forest dynamics across Europe.
The webinar is addressed to forest managers, public authorities, researchers, technical experts and stakeholders interested in forest adaptation, climate mitigation and digital decision-support tools.
Find more information and register at the OptFor-EU website.
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ENT is a project partner in OptFor-EU – OPTimising FORest management decisions for a low-carbon, climate resilient future in Europe, a Horizon Europe project that supports European forests in their capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The project is developing a user-centred Decision Support System (DSS) to help forest managers and other stakeholders make science-based decisions to optimise forest ecosystem services, enhance resilience and strengthen decarbonisation potential across Europe. Within the project, ENT coordinates the Spanish Case Study Area, located in Sierra de Gata and Las Hurdes, in northern Extremadura, contributing to stakeholder engagement, the identification of local needs and the integration of relevant information into the project’s Decision Support System.