Master courses in the forestry sector: recent experiences in governance of high education systems in Europe.

Higher education in forestry, as well as in other fields of science, is undergoing a remarkable process of internationalization. In this paper we analyze this process with reference to the European context, describing the main initiatives related to higher education in forestry and trying to identify the main problems of governance of the educational system. The paper is organized in four chapters. In the first one the driving forces of the internationalization process of the higher education initiatives are briefly described. In the second part the main recent experiences in internationalization of forest teaching are presented. The following chapter is devoted to the discussion of the problems of governance related to the process of internationalization and, at the end, some concluding remarks are presented.