SNS 50 years
2022 SNS celebrates 50 years of hard and fruitful work in and for the Nordic forest sector. We have funded and supported researcher and stakeholder networks and research projects, provided policy makers with science based knowledge and participated in developing the sector for the future.
PLACE/TIME: We will celebrate November 18th in Craafordsalen, Sundsv 14, SLU Alnarp, Sweden – click for map.
Click for information about travel and accomodation
The event, lunch and dinner is free of charge! Participants pay only for travel and accomodation.
A little of what the day offers:
- Viveka Beckeman, Director General at Swedish Forest Industries.
- Jenny Claesson, norm engineer and partner in Add Gender. Explains complex theories in a simple and humorous way.
- Liisa Saarenmaa, in the SNS board and participated in the Nordic cooperation for many years, talks about which issues have been important for the Nordic cooperation in the forest over the years, what it has been like to be a woman in the forest sector and what she thinks is important issues for the future.
- Rane Willerslev, professor of social anthropology and director of the National Museum in Denmark, will give his talk “Mit magiske træ”. From his website (https://www.ranewillerslev.dk/): “Through funny and touching scenes from his childhood, his youth and his adult life, Rane Willerslev reminds us in this thought-provoking lecture how much nature can tell us if we manage to turn towards it and be open to its magic.”
- Hjördis Jónsdóttir, student at Icelandic Agricultural University and youth member of the SNS board, gives her perspective on the Nordic forest industry, gender issues and the future.
- Markku Rummukainen, professor and researcher at Lund University and Sweden’s representative in the IPCC.
It will be a day full of Nordic perspectives, forests, networking, music and discussions. What is the right path to the future? We will be extra happy if you want to come and celebrate with us! Registration (at the latest Nov 6) is mandatory and you do it here. Welcome to join – the event is free of charge!
Agenda
9.00-9.30 Arrival
Welcome
NMR Torfi Jóhannesson
SNS history with Liisa Saarenmaa
10.30-11.00 Pause
Gender equality and forest with Jenny Claesson from Add gender
In progress
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Dialogue Markku Rummukainen and Viveka Beckeman
Rane Willerslev
15.30-15.45 Pause
SNS in the future with Hjördís Jónsdóttir, Jonas Rönnberg, Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir and Ivar Ekanger
Anniversary call
Candlelight walk in the park
18.00-21.00 Dinner with a Nordic touch at Alnarp9
21.00- Pub visit for minded
We offer lunch and a fabolous three course local dinner with a Nordic touch (both of no cost)!
Information will also be available here and in our social channels Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
(Scroll down for list of chairs and secretaries.)
Lisa Sennerby Forsse, former chair of the SNS board (2000-2001), about SNS, gender issues and the future in the forest sector:
Niels Elers Koch was active in the SNS board 1991-2014.
The pathway to today’s SNS
In November 1972, the “Samarbetsnämnden för Nordisk Skogsforskning” was established in Copenhagen. The purpose was to coordinate and streamline forest research in the Nordic countries. SNS was born.
But Nordic cooperation wasn’t new. Before SNS was born, there was an organisation for cooperation among the Nordic forest research institutes, and there was also a Nordic committee for research in the forest technology sector. As early as 1970, the decision was made to merge the two organizations into a new collaborative body for Nordic forest research – which was thus realized in 1972.
In 1978 SNS became an institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers. It still is, as part of the Nordic Council of Ministers for Fisheries, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Food and Forestry (MR-FJLS).
In 1982, the Nordiska Skogsarbetsstudiernas Råd (NSR), which had been an independent institution in the budget of the Council of Ministers, became part of the SNS.
In 1994, the alarm went off in SNS: budget cuts in the Nordic Council of Ministers were feared to affect SNS so badly that the organization would be forced to shut down. But in 2022, SNS is still alive and has been working to create synergies, provide new perspectives and increase creativity in Nordic forest research without interruption since 1972.
In 2000, SNS got its first female board member, who was also the chair of the board in 2000-2001, Lisa Sennerby-Forsse, then employed at the Skogs- och jordbrukets forskningsråd. Today, SNS works actively to increase gender equality in the Nordic forest sector, for the benefit of both the sector and human rights.
SNS historical chairs and secretaries
1972-1976
1977-1980
1981-1984
1982-1985 Danmark
-1985 Sekreterare: Arve Ziener (Norge)
1986-1988 Norge
Ordförande: Oluf Aalde (HVOR)
Sekreterare: Olav Gislerud (Norges institutt for skogforskning)
1989-1993 Finland
Ordförande: Jan Heino (Metla)
Sekreterare: Anders Portin (Centralskogsnämnden Skogskultur)
1994-1997 Danmark
Ordförande: Kammerherre Vilhelm Bruun de Neergaard (HVOR)
Sekreterare: Ditte Svendsen 1994 (Forskningscentret for Skov og Landskab)
Tina Fricke 1995-1996
Jens Nytoft Rasmussen 1997
1998-2001 Sverige
Ordförande: Jan-Erik Hällgren 1.1.1998-29.3.2000 (Skogs- och jordbrukets forskningsråd)
Lisa Sennerby-Forsse 30.3.2000-31.12.2001 (Skogs- och jordbrukets forskningsråd)
Sekreterare: Boel Åström (Formas)
2002-2005 Norge
Ordförande: Olav Hepsö (Norges Forskningsråd) (2002-2003)
Johs Kolltveit (Norges Forskningsråd) (2003-2005)
Sekreterare: Olav Gislerud (Norges Forskningsråd)
2006-2009 Finland
Ordförande: Kari Mielikäinen (Metla)
Sekreterare: Pauline Stenberg 1.1.2006-15.9.2007 (Metla)
Sune Haga 15.10.2007-31.12.2009 (Metla)
2010-2013 Danmark
Ordförande: Pernille Karlog (Naturstyrelsen)
Sekreterare: Katrine Hahn Kristensen (Skov & Landskab, Københavns Universitet)
2014-2017 Sverige
Ordförande: Jan Svensson (Näringsdepartementet)
Sekreterare: Jonas Rönnberg (Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU)
2018-2021 Norge
Ordförande: Ivar Ekanger (Landbruks- og matdepartementet)
Sekreterare: Jonas Rönnberg (Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU)
2022- Island
Ordförande: Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir (Icelandic Forest Service)
Sekreterare: Jonas Rönnberg (Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU)