The NordGen Forest Council

The NordGen Forest Council seeks to increase the availability of suitable forest reproductive material and to promote successful forest regeneration in the Nordic countries.

This includes both practical and administrative elements of seed and plant supply, regeneration methods, genetics and tree breeding. Within this sphere of activities, the Council shall:

Initiate and develop Nordic cooperation on practical and administrative tasks
Collect and disseminate information among both professionals and the public in the Nordic countries
Contribute to upgrading skills through the dissemination of experiences, methods and research results at conferences and thematic days
Initiate and monitor Nordic research and development
Discuss relevant international questions and coordinate Nordic viewpoints when appropriate

The council meets 2-3 times a year and has 2 members from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Iceland can appoint 1 or 2 members.

The chairmanship circulates among the member countries every fourth year.

A general mandate for the Council is given in NordGens strategy for Nordic working groups.

Gran planteskole KH Hanssen

Contact

Kjersti Holt Hanssen (kjersti.hanssen@nordgen.org)

NordGen Head Office
NordGen Plants
Box 41, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
Visiting address: Smedjevägen 3
Tel: +46 40 53 66 40
Fax: +46 40 53 66 50

NordGen Farm Animals
NordGen Forest
Postboks 115, NO-1431 ÅS, Norway
Visiting address: Raveien 9, ÅS
Phone: +47 64 94 97 00/+47 64 94 80 00
Fax: +47 64 94 29 80

NordGen Forest
serves as a Nordic meeting place in the fields of forest genetics and genetic resources, supply of seeds and plants, and methods for regeneration. Our main goal is to contribute to the establishment of the best possible Nordic forests for the future.