About Us

"Forest Engineering and Technologies (FETEC) Platform" is a not-for-profit technical association founded in 2012 to strengthen the cooperation and improve communication among scientists and researchers who work under Forest Engineering Department and conduct their both educational and research-development activities in the subjects of forest harvesting, forest transportation, ergonomics, forest mechanization, forest roads, flood and avalanche control, forest road structures and bioengineering structures, and Information Technologies (ITs) in forestry.

FETC Platform aims to ensure sustainability of forest resources and multi-purpose management techniques considering appropriate production and utilization methods by using technical forestry methods, ITs, and scientific decision support systems for solving complex problems related with forestry and environment in regional, national, and global scales, and then to implement those solutions by collaborating with main stakeholders in the sector. To achieve these goals, annual-meetings have been organized by different host institutions.

The Platform conduct their studies under following work groups, considering main subjects listed above:

1. Forest harvesting and primary transportation
2. Forest roads and secondary transportation
3. Biomass supply chain and optimization
4. Mechanization in forestry
5. Work knowledge and ergonomics in forestry
6. Ecosystem-based forest operations
7. Flood and avalanche control
8. Road structures and biotechnical structures
9. Precision forestry
10. Information technologies in forestry
11. GIS and remote sensing technologies in forestry
12. Intelligent systems and robotics in forestry
13. Decision support systems and modeling in forestry

FETC Platform publishes a semi-annual peer-reviewed open access journal: European Journal of Forest Engineering (EJFE). EJFE is an international scientific journal that aims to publish pure and applied researches in the field of forest engineering and technologies. EJFE is dedicated to provide an international forum for presenting high quality empirical and theoretical articles concerning technical, economic, and social aspects of forest engineering and technologies. 

It is highly anticipated that the partnership of platform members on recently initiated or completed research projects, scientific publications, and graduate thesis in the main subjects of the Platform will improve cooperation and accelerate the collaborative projects among the members of the platform.