XXI Congress 2025, Ruse, Bulgaria

11 - 14 September 2025

Announcement | Program | Registration Form | Participants

XXI UEF CONGRESS 2025 RUSE, BULGARIA

Dear colleagues around Europe, representing your UEF member organization!

The Union of Bulgarian Foresters - member of UEF and the UEF Presidency have the pleasure to invite you to attend the UEF Congress 2025, which will be held in Ruse town, Bulgaria, from 11 to 14 of September 2025.

The official programme will start with a seminar “The Ludogorie and Dobrudzha – Challenges for Biodiversity Conservation in the Climate Change Context” in the afternoon of 11th of September. This Seminar will be hosted in cooperation between UEF, UBF, Ministry of agriculture and food, Executive Forest Agency, University of Forestry, Forest Research Institute at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ruse University "Angel Kanchev", North Central State Forest Enterprise – Gabrovo.

On 12th of September the Statutory UEF Congress will be held.

On 13^nd of September, a fieldtrip to “Voden – Irihisar” State Forest Range is planned, also including a cultural programme.

According to the UEF Statues, proposals by member organizations for motions to be included in the agenda of the Congress must be given before the end of June to the UEF Presidency (Thomas Baschny, secretary).

A special cultural programme, including transport, visits and lunches, will be offered to the accompanying persons.

REGISTRATION

Registration can be done only by using the registration form on the UEF web site.
In order to help the organisation committee, please register as soon as possible, but latest 25th May 2025.

The participation of forestry students from UEF member organizations will be promoted.
The participation of one student per organization will be sponsored with a 50% refund of the participation fees. Applications for this reduction should be sent to the treasurer of UEF, François-Xavier Nicot, by E-mail: francois-xavier.nicot@onf.fr until the same date as the registration for the Congress.

Please mention the name of the student that will participate from your organization in your demand to our treasurer.

ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE – TRANSFER - IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Transportation to the Congress place will be organize from Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP).

There will be a meeting point with a Bulgarian member of the Organizing committee waiting for you at the airport.

All participants are kindly requested to give all details about their flight numbers, arrival date/time and departure date/time.

For any other questions, please send an E-mail to: anpetrakieva@gmail.com and to the president of the organizing committee of the Congress – prof. Ivan Paligorov (ipaligorov@gmail.com).

PARTICIPATION FEES

The fees for participating in the whole programme from 11th to 14th of September (starting with lunch and accommodation and ending with breakfast) is 550 € per person (single room).

The price for a double room is 500 € per person.

Along with your registration please transfer your payment to the following account:

Name: Union of Bulgarian Foresters
Bank: DSKBank, branch 4
Town: Sofia 1000
Country: BULGARIA
IBAN no. BG 90 STSA 93000010117510
SWIFT (BIC) code: STSABGSF

Use only your participant name - NOT Company or organization name.

We wish everybody a nice Congress in Bulgaria in September 2025!

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