Application call for CBU FEE Master's Programme

Hi up there,

The beginning of the winter seemed to be snowless and frostless, but recently it seems that Mother Nature takes its power back. It started to be around -20-30 already last weekend and such kind of weather will still continue during this week. Only couple of weeks left before a call for CBU Master’s Programme in Forestry and Environmental Engineering (FEE) will be open. The call for applications for CBU FEE at the University of Eastern Finland will be open from 1st February to 16th March 2012. There will be CBU scholarships (500 EUR/month) available for the five best applicants in the application round 2012-2014. These scholarships are for the students who do not have any other scholarships of funding for their studies. Applicants do not need to apply for these scholarships separately.

First forestry students were accepted to this programme in 2007 and this year the students will be chosen already 5^th time. Surprisingly the CBU FEE will offer students a scholarship first time starting from this year. Previously CBU provided only partial support for students, but this time the incredible opportunity is offered to the students.

Please distribute this information further to the potential applicants who can be interested. More details can be found on http://www.uef.fi/cbu-fee/news

CBU PhD seminar

Hello everyone,
I wish happy and successful year to all of you! In the mid of December last year CBU Doctoral students have had a seminar in Joensuu premises. Finally we had students from 3 different universities: University of Eastern Finland, University of Tampere and St.-Petersburg State Forest Technical University. We were 7 students from forestry, medicine, IT and social sciences. Each of participants prepared a presentation about 15 minutes on study progress and 10 minutes were given for questions and general discussion. It is already second meeting of CBU PhD students and most of us have made a headway and increased the expertise in the areas of study issues. General discussion at the end of the meeting was very fruitful and useful. The general concerns of the students regarding fundraising, guidance and support from CBU side were discussed. Personally, I think such kind of meetings offer to the students discuss the most relevant issues of study process, share the experience and knowledge.
Meanwhile during the autumn University of Forest Finland, School of Forest Sciences announced a call for 3-years PhD scholarship. At the end of the seminar GSForest coordinator announced the result of selection process. The 3-year PhD scholarship was granted to Anton Kuzmin who is writing his doctoral dissertation in the field of forest inventory. Congratulations!!!