The kick-off meeting of the Erasmus + Capacity Building project titled ‘GIS and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forestry and Ecology – SUFOGIS’ took place at the Die Berater premises in Vienna, Austria on the 15th and 16th of January 2019. The project is co-ordinated by FMRS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence – Volga State University of Technology (Russia).The kick-off meeting of the Erasmus + Capacity Building project titled ‘GIS and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forestry and Ecology – SUFOGIS’ took place at the Die Berater premises in Vienna, Austria on the 15th and 16th of January 2019. The project is co-ordinated by FMRS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence – Volga State University of Technology (Russia).