Press release 22.9.2003: FOREST ACADEMY FINLAND - New approach for cooperation with the new EU countries
Press release 22.9.2003 FOREST ACADEMY FINLAND - New approach for cooperation with the new EU countries Forest Academy Finland (FORAFIN) is a Finnish initiative of a new forest forum aimed at supporting EU's commitment for sustainable forest management, and developing mutual exchange of views on forestry's role in socio-economic development, particularly in the new EU countries. Finland wishes to make a contribution in this respect, because in Finland, like in many new EU member countries, forests play an important role in socio-economic development. Finland is also a rather new EU member