Sopron, January 25, 2022 - The University of Sopron is significantly transforming and developing the training of forest engineers and wood industry engineers, as well as nature conservation, game management engineering, and surveying and land management engineering courses.

The aim is to increase the efficiency of education and measurable international student mobility, based on wide-ranging sectoral cooperation. Following the change in the operating model, the University of Sopron places great emphasis on receiving regular feedback from key players in the economy and industry. To this end, the university has launched a consultation process involving public and private forest managers, timber companies, and forestry and wood industry professional organizations, focusing on the sample curricula developed for the 2022 academic year by the Faculty of Forest Engineering and the Wood Industry Engineering and Creative Industries. We are at a historic moment: representatives of the university, public and private forestry, timber companies, professional organizations and secondary vocational education have come together to formulate the training needs of the future. With the new curriculum, the university has embarked on a strategic transformation that will shape the future of education for decades to come.

Sustainability for us also means that we always provide the best and most effective answer to the challenges we face, so we not only provide the knowledge needed to obtain a degree, but also develop a system of continuous training, said prof. dr. Attila Fábián, Rector of the University of Sopron. As part of the conciliation process held at a professional meeting in Sopron on Monday, experts expect that the renewable engineering model curriculum, which will be introduced from September this year, will be internationally competitive, synthesizing ecological, economic and technical knowledge, provide students with knowledge beyond their current framework. According to the plans, the training of wood engineering engineers will start in the form updated by the feedback of the industry from September 2022, the final curriculum of which will be created as a result of yesterday's meeting, after extensive consultation.