Formec 2025 - Formec

Monday, 9^th
- Pre-conference tour (Tikkurila (Vantaa) Railway station – Joensuu)
- Ice breaking & registration (METLA House)
Tuesday, 10^th
- Field trip
Wednesday, 11^th and Thursday, 12^th
- Conference days (UEF Joensuu Campus)
Friday, 13^th
- Post-conference tour (Vieremä Ponsse Factory)

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The Forests Monitor is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to the applied science of multifunctional forest ecosystems, with a primary objective of enhancing forest management and conservation in support of good governance worldwide.

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The FORMEC 2025 Conference will publish a Proceedings containing the submitted abstracts as well as the oral and poster presentations given at the conference. Extended abstracts may also be published in the Proceedings. We will contact the corresponding authors of the abstracts regarding the publication of the Proceedings in March 2025.

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We are planning two Special Issues or Article collections. One for the journal of Silva Fennica and the other for the International Journal of Forest Engineering.

	Forestry 5.0 – Drivers and trends for AI, robots and humans in forestry Professor Ola Lindroos, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden
	Biodiversity and Climate Roadmaps for the Finnish Forest industries Director Karoliina Niemi, Finnish Forest Industries, Finland
	High-quality forest resource information through individual tree level inventories, automated field reference and accurate tree species classification Professor Juha Hyyppä, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Finland
	Cut-to-length technology highlights & vision forward Director, Research & Programs Kalle Einola, Ponsse Plc, Finland

Photo courtesy of Finnish Forest Museum LUSTO

June 9, 2025: As a part of FORMEC 2025 Conference, we will organize a Pre-conference trip by bus from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (7:30) and Tikkurila Railway station (8:00) to Joensuu (about 17:00).

The route goes through Kymenlaakso, significant forest industrialized region, and includes visit and guided tour to the Finnish Forest Museum LUSTO (https://lusto.fi/en/) at Punkaharju and lunch.

June 9, 2025: The ice breaking event will be held at the METLA House (Yliopistokatu 6) at 20:00 – 23:00.

METLA House was completed in 2004 as the office building for the Joensuu unit of the Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla). In 2015, Metla merged with the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), but the building's name remained the same. Currently, the European Forest Institute (EFI) also operates in the building.

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FORMEC 2025 Conference Days will take place on the campus area of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in CARELIA (Yliopistokatu 4) and AURORA (Yliopistokatu 2) buildings.

In the map below, CARELIA is building number 7 and AURORA is building number 6. (Building number 10 is the METLA House (Yliopistokatu 6) where we have Ice breaking event.)

The Organizing Committee will organize a free tour to the Ponsse factory on Friday, June 13, with the option to travel to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport from Kuopio Airport or Kuopio Railway Station or Joensuu Airport (Group 1 only). In Ponsse tour, we have Group 1 (early) and Group 2 (later). You can choose the group that best fits your schedule and travel plans.

Note: Flights and train tickets must be booked individually.

If you are presenting interesting and novel research results on any topic related to harvesting operations at the FORMEC 2025 Conference, consider complementing your work by publishing it in the upcoming Special Issue of Silva Fennica, titled "FORMEC 2025: Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Harvesting Operations". This issue will be guest-edited by Prof. Jori Uusitalo (University of Helsinki) and Chad Bolding (University of Georgia). All papers submitted before the deadline, September 30, 2025, will be considered for inclusion in this special issue. Submissions will undergo the standard peer-review process of Silva Fennica.

If you are presenting innovative and impactful research on any topic related to AI, Digitalization, or Automation in wood and biomass supply chains at the FORMEC 2025 Conference, consider enhancing your contribution by submitting your work to the upcoming Article collection, titled "FORMEC 2025: Leveraging Technology for More Sustainable Wood and Biomass Supply Chains."