From 25 to 29 April 2016, the fourth edition of SIFER welcome this year 23 trainees from from around the world: France, Spain, Belgium, Lithuania, UK, Germany, Finland, Japan and many others !

For its fifth edition, SIFER was a side event of the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress.

During 2014, three international doctoral courses were organized by the INRA Nancy-Lorraine Center. The SIFER course "Stable Isotopes in Forest Ecosystem Research" from 17 to 21 February, 2014; IFGI "International Forestry and Global Issues" from 19 to 23 May, 2014; and MIXFOR "Species Interactions in Mixed Forest Ecosystems" from 25 to 29 August, 2014. These programs were organized by INRA, AgroParis Tech, the doctoral school RP2E, the NFZ network, EFICIENT, and received additional support from LabEx ARBRE, the Urban Community of Greater Nancy and the Lorraine Region. Each program hosted between 20 and 35 PhD candidates from a range of different countries (largely European).