A forest science atelier – From data to information, from information to scientific publishing

An international winter school in a beautiful didactical center located on Italian Alps.

The school is focused on problem solving and it is oriented to PhD students and early-stage researchers.

The school is organized with traditional lessons on some of the most relevant issues such as: coding, forest modelling, climate change, advanced statistics, spatial analysis and remote sensing, publication strategies.

Most of the time is devoted to a laboratory work (atelier) in small teams. Participants are divided in small groups, each team focused on a specific topic. During the work each group, followed by a mentor (a

senior researcher) will be guided to solve problems, finding the best strategy for transforming a scientific question into a successful publication, finding the best way to elaborate the data, a solid statistical approach to the investigation in order to present at the end of the week a proposal and a first draft for a scientific paper.

The atelier approach is aimed at developing problem-solving capabilities, team work capacities, publishing strategies trough the cooperation between different generations of researchers and scientists: from PhD students to senior professors.

The best team work at the end of the school will receive a prize.