Time to Apply for the NordGen/SNS Forest Scholarships
Now you can apply for the NordGen/SNS forest scholarship.
Each year,
NordGen
Forest
,
together with Nordic Forest Research (SNS)
,
opens
a call for scholarships aimed at those working or studying
within
forestry.
One of the former beneficiaries is Elin Persson. She used her granted funds
for travelling to and from the Swedish Agricultural University
(SLU)
in Uppsala,
including
accommodation and for visiting the
nursery
she cooperated with for her master thesis
.
NordGen
Forest’s scholarships are granted
in cooperation with SNS
. Each applicant can be granted up to 20,000 NOK. The call
opens the 15
th
of December and closes on the 15
th
of February.
"The scholarships should contribute to common Nordic benefit by supporting education, continuing education and knowledge exchange for persons working or studying within forest seed or plant production, regeneration methods and tree breeding in the Nordic countries
”, sa
id
Kjersti
Ba
k
kebø
Fjellstad
, Section Leader for
NordGen
Forest.
Important
issue
for the
forest
industry
The
criteria
above fitted well into Elin Persson’s application
which was sent in by her
supervisor
Åke Olson.
Elin Persson was studying
Master of Science in Forestry
in
Umeå
and wanted to write her thesis at SLU in
Uppsala, where
there was
an
ongoing
project within
the
field – biological
control
of
fungal
diseases
in
forest
nurseries.
” Due
to both
env
ironmental and health reasons, it’s important for the industry to find biological
control methods
that can replace
the chemical ones.
The intense growth of
pine and spruce
seedlings in forest nurseries creates
a conducive environment
for
diseases
”, sa
id
Åke Olson
,
Docent at SLU in Uppsala and Elin Persson’s thesis supervisor.
Detrimental
funding
In her master thesis
,
Elin Persson
tested four different biological
cont
r
ol
products
,
available
on
the market
,
in cooperation with the nursery Svenska
skogsplantor
in
Kilåmon
, northern Sweden.
Two of the pesticides ha
ve been
used
in
forest plant
nurseries
before
while two of them have
only
been used on other plants. The growth and
health
status
of the plants were examined and compared.
And
the
fung
al
communit
ies
w
ere
studied
using
DNA-
barcoding
analysis
.
”
NordGen
Forest’s scholarship was absolutely crucial for Elin to
conduct her master thesis.
Without it
, it would be impossible since we at SLU in Uppsala don’t hav
e any similar funds to offer students to pay for this kind of
expenses.
The scholarship enabled better exchange between SLU in
Umeå
and
Uppsala, a great benefit for both us at the University and
for the students”,
Åke Olson
concludes
.
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