18th Oct. 2008. at 11 AM in the Vajdahunyad Castle Ferenc Sirman under-secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development opens the European Forest Week between 20-24th Oct.

Following the professional opening a forum starts where Maria Kadlecikova, chief of FAO’s East-European office, László Haraszthy, under-secretary of Ministry of Environment and Water, Fülöp Benedek, vice manager of MNV Zrt., dr. József Pethő, chairman of Hungarian Association of Forestry and József Luzsi, chairman of the Association of Private Forest Owners and Agrestians and Gábor Figeczky WWF can be heard.
The events of European Forest Week are organized according to the agreement of the 46 European countries’ ministers responsible for forests.
On 5th Nov. 2008. on the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of European Forests in Europe, Warsaw,  the participating countries agreed in organizing national Forest Week events besides the central ones in Rome and in Brussels.

Forest management against climate change
44% of Europe and 20% of Hungary is covered by forest, and this figure is continuously increasing.
Forests are the most effective factors in moderating climate change by absorbing the greenhouse gases, thus protecting the life on Earth.
Wood is the oldest, renewable, environment friendly raw material and source of energy, thus the usage of wood is still the best choice in the 21st century to protect the environment.

Colourful forests in the middle of Europe
As diverse are our forests they serve as many purposes. Society should be more familiar with products and services of forests, forest management activity on the protection of forests, and all of its significance.
The events of European Forest Week try to attract town-dwellers into forests and to foresters from Baja and Nyíregyháza to Sopron, from Balassagyarmat to Szeged and from Visegrád to Pécs.