Kaunas College of Forestry and Environmental Engineering

KaunKaunas College of Forestry and as College of Forestry and Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Engineering

1927 - ForestForestryry School School was

established in Alytus

Glimpse to the history

1945 - Forestry School was reorganized to Vilnius Vilnius

Forest TechnicumForest Technicum

Glimpse to the history

1963 – Forest Technicum was transferred to Girionys 1991 – Forest Technicum was reorganized in to ForestForestryry S Schoolchool 2002 – Kaunas Forestry School was reorganized into Kaunas College Kaunas College

of Forestry and Environmental Engineeringof Forestry and Environmental Engineering

Glimpse to the history

HIGHER STUDIES

Forestry

• Silviculture;• Forest Harvesting;

HIGHER STUDIES

Landscape Architecture

• Landscape Design and Installment;

• Park Management;• Ornamental Plant Nurseries;

HIGHER STUDIES

Management of Plantations

• Plantations of Technical and Ornamental Plants;

• Plantations of Medical and Edible Plants;

HIGHER STUDIES

Recreation

• Agrotourism • Forest Recreation;

HIGHER STUDIES

Land Management

• Land Administration;• Land Management;

HIGHER STUDIES

Hydraulic engineering

• Water management; • Constructions of Ponds

Fishery;• Constructions of

Agricultural Buildings

RESEARCH

1. Optimization of forest regeneration technologies

RESEARCH

2. Projects of modern forest nurseries

RESEARCH

3. Projects of forest regeneration and afforestation

RESEARCH

4. Modeling of round wood resources

RESEARCH

5. Round wood standardization

RESEARCH

6. Use of harvesting residues for fuel

RESEARCH

7. Optimization of forest harvesting processes

RESEARCH

8. Projects of landscape architecture

RESEARCH

9. Projects of hydraulic constructions

ACTIVITIES OF THE INFORMATIONAL CENTRE

In-service courses for forestry specialists1500th attendant of the courses

ACTIVITIES OF THE INFORMATIONAL CENTRE

Training of forest owners

ACTIVITIES OF THE INFORMATIONAL CENTRE

Events for the young forest fellows

ERASMUS partners

Yrkeshögskolan Sydväst (Finland)

Seinäjoki Politechnic,

(Finland)

Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu (Finland)

Häme Polytechnic (Finland)

Rottnenburg Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft

(Germany)

Fachhochschule Eberswalde (Germany)

Fachhochschule Osnabrück (Germany)

Writtle Agricultural College (U.K)

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

LEONARDO DA VINCIpartners

Savo Silinjarvi College

(Finland)

Sparesater College

(Sweden)

Rottnenburg Hochschule für

Forstwirtschaft

(Germany)

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Forestry Skills Championships of the Baltic and EU students

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Forestry

• Silviculture;• Forest Machinery ;• Multiple Use of

Forests.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Improvement of methodology and training basis

• Leonardo da Vinci

projects

• Projects of EU structural

founds

PROJECTS FINANCED BY EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS

“Improvement of methodology for training skilled forest workers”

• Textbooks;

• Training appliances:− Forest regeneration;

− Forest protection;

− Forest thinning;

− Forest and timber measurement.

• Renovation of the building;

• Training appliances:− Computer simulator;

− Computer program for forest

thinning simulation;

− Forest felling equipment;

− Computer laboratory;

− Forest measurement tools;

• Classroom furniture;

• Other training devices.

PROJECTS FINANCED BY EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS

“Improvement of infrastructure for training skilled forest workers”

PROJECTS FINANCED BY EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS

• Textbooks and other methodical material on

training objects:− energy plantations

− Christmas tree plantations

− plantations of medicinal plants

− plantations of forest berries and fruit

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