The course is a two-year world-class integrated programme aimed at qualifying graduates to deal with the huge challenges facing temperate forestry, agriculture and sustainable land use. The teaching staff is research active and the students will benefit from our wide range of research activities and contacts in the UK and overseas. By joining the teaching and research experiences of five European leading educational institutions, this unique course will constitute an in-depth educational programme with inherent impetus to stay at the forefront of research-based teaching strongly linked to realities in many European and non-European countries. The SUFONAMA course is offered by a consortium consisting of five institutions: Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; School of the Environment and Natural Resources, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK; Forest Sciences and Ecology, University of Goettingen, Faculty Goettingen, Germany; Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, and; Faculty of Agriculture, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. There are excellent employment opportunities in the broad area of forestry including national government, international organisations and consultancies. Many recent SUFONAMA graduates have gone on to do PhD research.