Day 1. Monday 20/5
Welcome activities
Arrival of students in the evening. Local and foreign students meeting and introduction to families. Students staying with families go with their partners, students staying a the hostel stay with teachers.
Day 2. Tuesday 21/5
Official welcome by the Sjulnäss Headmaster and Artistic performances by local students.
In the morning, at the school Cafeteria, speech by the headmaster. Swedish students offer musical and dance performances.
Students visit of the school premises and attend classes with their local partners.
Karlberg: Learning Boreal Forest basics
All local students in grades 8 and 9 go to Karlberg Recreation area. This space is typical Swedish forest with footpath..
Foreign students receive information about the environment and handouts prepared by Sjulnässkolan in English about boreal vegetation. They walk together a footpath where they learn how to recognize these plants.
Day 3. Wednesday 22/5
Storforsen: Boreal Natural Heritage
Local students involved in the project and visiting students go on an all day excursion to Storforsen (Natural Park). Storforsen is one of Europe's largest waterfalls in the north, which has great historical significance in the transportation of timber and tar.
Forests as Economic Assets: from Planting to to Timber.
Students stop at a forest nursery. Next they visit a a private forest with trees of different ages planted for their economic exploitation. Finally the visit “Stenvalls Trä” (sawmill) and a forest clear cut to learn about forest plantation and exploitation
Stenvalls Trä is a large producer of flat timber made of pine.
Day 4. Thursday 23/5
Wood-based Industries and activities.
• Half-day visit in groups at “Fritid och Vildmark”, “Smurfit Kappa”, “Lindbäck's Bygg” and “Sunpine”.
At “Fritid and Vildmark” they get to try shooting with hunting rifle in the shooting cinema. In northern Sweden, hunting is an important part of forest management.
During the day “Sunpine” also informs about their extraction of, among other things tall oil. “Sunpine” is the first company in Sweden who produce this type of oil from pine.
At “Lindbäck's Bygg”, the students are having a guided tour at the House factory (wooden houses).
At “Smurfit Kappa” they will see paper production. “Smurfit Kappa” is one of the most modern paper mill factory in Scandinavia and one of the largest in Europe, with their own water filtration and heating system.
• While one half of students make half-day visits, the other half of the visit classes in school. And they change places after the lunchbreak.
Day 5. Friday 24/5
• Return home for the French and Spanish students.