The LLLF project is about academic education for forest owners. The project will establish an international version of an existing academic course called Sustainable Family Forestry.
The project notes that the forest sector in the Baltic Sea region, is struggling to find and keep personnel, and that there is a need to develop rural economies. It stresses that today, people, in general, have become more urban and thus lost contact with land and forest. In view of this, LLLF suggests that it is important to educate private forest owners in biological and economic management. Today there is no academic education for this group, as existing educations primarily serve the needs of the state and companies, according to LLLF. The project therefore wants to offer private forest owners in the Baltic Sea region an academic education. It will establish an international version of Sustainable Family Forestry, a course which is based on a blended learning approach and combination of excursions and assignments. The course will mix local people, practical dimensions and research. It will draw on the experiences from small-scale forest machines in Latvia. The project has two target groups. First, people working in the forest sector. Second, private forest owners. The activities include defining the target groups, trial curriculum, excursions, examinations and evaluation.