On Monday, November 15th, we will hold an international symposium sponsored by the INNOFES Project, the European Forest Research Institute (EFI), and the European Forest Ecosystem Service Innovation Project (SINCERE), etc. At this symposium, 16 experts and practitioners from Europe and Japan will report their research results and findings on cultural FES. In particular, we will focus on the growing importance of cultural FES as a new source of business innovation and the potential contribution of innovation to forest-related sustainability policies within the framework of the SDGs.

▽ Keynote speech: Prof. David Petenella, Padova University, Prof. Tobias Prienger, Kassel University.

▽ Other speakers (titles omitted): Georg Winkel (European Forest Research Institute), Yuichiro Hirano (Forestry Research Institute Kansai Branch), Shingo Shibata (Sophia University), Takahiro Tsuge (Same), Takuya Takahashi (Shiga Prefectural University), Gregory Vallatin (British Forestry Research Institute), Lisa Tivinen (Finnish Institute for Natural Resources), Yoshio Fujioka (Forestry Agency), Mihoko Kasuga (Forest Therapy Society) and others.

▽ Application: https://forms.gle/Dx3ZL6WQekEANzd66 (Scheduled to start accepting on September 1st)