The initiative is a collaboration between five universities, federal funding bodies and the forest sector in the form of individual companies and industry associations. The universities involved are Australian National University (ANU), the Universities of Tasmania (UTAS), Sunshine Coast (UniSC), Adelaide, and Melbourne University. Forestry Australia will provide a scholarship for one of the participants in the program each year, with this year's recipient from Western Australia working on carbon farming initiatives.
While the initiative is majority industry funded, the sector's national training organisation Forest Works provided funding from the federal government's $10million Forest Workforce Training Program.
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) was instrumental in bringing the multiple parties together.
