Dear colleagues,

The FORESTT programme team is pleased to invite you to the 2026 PEPR scientific meeting, to be held from September 28 to October 2.

After two previous editions in Bordeaux and Montpellier, the FORESTT community will gather this year in Avignon for four days of discussions and reflection around the programme’s research projects, and more broadly on cross-cutting issues related to the transition of forest socio-ecosystems in the context of global change.

Programme

The programme will be structured around :

• Annual meetings of the targeted projects (internal meetings, on Monday afternoon, September 28; Tuesday morning, September 29; and Friday, October 2),
• Workshops on cross-cutting themes shared by the different projects (open to all, Tuesday afternoon, September 29),
• Two plenary days (open to all, Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday, October 1), including in particular :
  • Updates on the programme,
  • First key results from the targeted projects,
  • Selected presentations aimed at sharing recent syntheses of relevance to FORESTT’s work,
  • Several round tables on integrative themes, in connection with the programme’s challenges and stakeholder expectations,
• A poster session (Wednesday, September 30, late afternoon), during which projects initiated within the FORESTT programme and their first results will be presented in greater detail,
• The presentation of two photographic exhibitions :
  • “Biodiversity in Forests: What Functions, What Services, What Unknowns?” (call for contributions currently open),
  • “Fascinating Old-Growth Forests: An Initiatory Journey into the Heart of Occitania” (deliverable of the OCCIGEN project).

The full programme and information regarding the opening of registrations will be communicated in the coming months.

We very much hope to see many of you at this next annual meeting !

The PEPR FORESTT team