Benas Švedas
Education
- Ongoing Euroforester MSc programme at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Forestry BSc at Vytautas Magnus University
Experience
- Internships in forestry companies both in private and public sectors in Lithuania – Skogssällskapet and the State Forest Enterprise.
- One year at Girion.lt doing landscape architecture studies and its implementation ensuring a close- to- nature approach, featuring local plant species and reuse of natural elements.
- One year as a forestry consultant/manager at the Lithuanian agriculture advisory service
Motivation
As I was gathering knowledge studying forestry in Lithuania, as well as widening my scope internationally at Euroforester MSc programme in Sweden and later in my professional experience, I always had many ideas about what should be done in Lithuanian forestry, agriculture and environmental protection sectors. I feel like I have a duty to share my knowledge. As soon as I found out about the Create Lithuania programme, I immediately understood that it is a once–in–a–lifetime opportunity to not only share my knowledge but to actually employ it to implement projects with visible effect.
Rotation
Data-driven governance of the Green Deal in Lithuania
Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Application of webcrawling method in the Environmental Protection Department activities
Environmental Protection Department under the Ministry of Environment