About the European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF)
EFUF is an annual event, providing a meeting place for practitioners, scientists and educators involved with the planning and management of urban forests (from woodland to urban parks and single trees in the street). The Forum is associated with the “International Union of Forest Research Organizations” (IUFRO) - Urban Forestry Research Group. Participants come from across Europe, as well as from other parts of the world. The first edition of the EFUF was held in Wuppertal (GER) in 1998. After introduction by the Bezirksforstinspektion Korneuburg/Tulln, the participants of last year’s EFUF in Arnhem, Netherlands, chose the City of Tulln, Lower Austria, as host of the 13th Forum.
1998 - Wuppertal, Germany
1999 - Aarhus, Danmark
2000 - Budapest, Hungary
2001 - Durham, United Kingdom
2002 - Trondhejm, Norway
2003 - Arnhem, The Netherlands & Flanders, Belgium
2004 - Stockholm, Sweden
2005 - Celje, Slovenia
2006 - Florence, Italy
2007 - Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2008 - Hämeenlinna, Finland
2009 - Arnhem, Nederland
2010 - Tulln, Austria
Welcome to Tulln!
The 13th European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) will be held in the city of Tulln, Austria, some 40 km away from downtown Vienna. Tulln upon the River Danube has existed for about 2000 years. Originally named “Comagena”, it used to be an important garrison on the northern borderline of the Roman Empire, obviously survived its decline as a “Civitas”, and became the capital of the Babenberger margraves in the 11th century. In 1683 John Sobieski, King of Poland, massed the troops to relieve Vienna from the Ottoman siege.
Nowadays Tulln has about 15,000 inhabitants and is the political and economic centre of one of the most powerful districts of Lower Austria.
For more than ten years the city administration has strictly been following an ambitious developing plan, which includes housing space, traffic management, education and research institutes (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences) as well as large-scale green spaces - among them recreation forests and projects to restore nature. The efforts to cultivate historic awareness in townscape are remarkable. Thus the meanwhile established quality of urban life in combination with huge technical projects, already established as well as just in progress (power stations, high-speed railway), and their design of landscape are of international interest.
