About
The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology at Mendel University in Brno (FFWT MENDELU) is one of the major university teaching institutions in the Czech Republic, concentrating on research and academic activities in the areas of arboristics, furniture design and furniture technology, forestry, landscaping, timber structures and wood building construction, wood technology and timber management and furniture design on bachelor, master and doctoral levels, and in research and expertise in the respective fields. Our mission is to facilitate education, to support scientific research and to nurture creative ecologically sound activities related to land, forests, wood and interior with an emphasis on ecology and aesthetics. Our faculty is a part of the Mendel University in Brno, a public university whose tradition dates back to 1919.
The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology of the Mendel University in Brno (Lesnická a dřevařská fakulta, Mendelova univerzita v Brně) is located in the University campus in Brno - Černá Pole and consists of 13 departments. The Faculty employs ca. 200 people including part time jobs, of them 184 teaching and scientific staff (18 professors, 42 associate professors, 80 assistants and 44 research assistants). The total number of students in bachelor, master and doctoral study programmes varies about 1,800 (the number of doctoral students in all doctoral programmes reaches 200).
The Faculty closely collaborates with the Training Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny (Školní lesní podnik Masarykův les Křtiny), which manages 10,265 ha of forestland, serving with its experimental forest stands, greenhouses, forest nurseries, game preserve, a saw mill, mechanised log depot, and other establishments for educational and research purposes of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology.
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Czech forestry is changing. We have to respect nature, says an expert.
Due to climatic change, Czech forestry is also changing. Spruce and other monocultures, as well as trees of the same age in long and uncluttered rows will...
Nutria population explosion, feeding contributes to escalation of the problem
Among the most invasive animals on the planet, nutria is overbreeding in the Czech landscape. However, people generally consider them harmless creatures,...
Experts at FFWT MENDELU determine the age of fruit drying sheds in the Horní Vsacko region
The dendrochronological dating method finds the age of six chosen fruit drying sheds in this region.
Research has confirmed the occurrence of a rare beetle after a hundred years
The stag beetle (Ceruchus chrysomelinus) has not been found in the Jeseníky Mountains for over 100 years. The occurrence of this primeval forest species...
MENDELU FFWT and the year 2020
What was 2020 like at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology?
The Destructive Tree Pathogen P. ramorum Originates from the Laurosilva Forests of East Asia
Dr. Thomas Jung, head scientific researcher of the Phytophthora Research Centre (PRC) at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology of Mendel University...
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