Building Skills and Business Among Nature Restoration

Using Data-Driven Management as a Tool to Promote Climate-Smart, Biodiversity-Conscious, and Forest Damage Risk-Aware Forestry

The goal of the TIEME project is to improve the level of forest and nature management by disseminating the latest information and supporting forest owners' decision-making.

The TIEME project aims to reduce the role of traditional advisory services by shifting the focus to forest owners adopting data-driven management skills themselves and making informed decisions about their forest assets. Forest owners and forestry professionals are provided with up-to-date information that enables independent and informed decision-making in forest management. The project aims to strengthen the role of forest owners as active operators and decision-makers who guide and manage their forest ownership sustainably and diversely. Special attention is paid to promoting diverse forest management, climate resilience, and damage resistance.

The project organizes information sessions and workshops and pilots a new digital, experiential, and customer-oriented way of disseminating information. Expanding the knowledge base of forest owners shifts the role of forestry professionals from decision-makers to consultants, supporting decisions and learning-supporting role.

The project promotes the implementation of regional forest program goals, which emphasize the sustainable utilization of forests in a diverse manner, considering local conditions. The project also aims to respond to EU and Finnish goals, such as increasing biodiversity, improving the quality of nature management, and mitigating climate change through climate-resilient and damage-resistant forest management.

The target group and beneficiaries of the TIEME project are forest owners, especially new forest owners, and forestry professionals. Additionally, representatives of environmental administration can benefit from the information produced by the project.

The project is implemented in the Central Finland region, but the materials produced in the project are available nationwide. The project implementation period is from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027.

The project is carried out by the Finnish Forest Centre and Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences. The project is co-financed by the EU's rural development funding, and the support is granted by the Central Finland Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment. The total funding is €407,502.38.

For more information: Henna Pitkänen, Project Manager

[email protected]

+35850 340 7301