Decisions related to forest management can have long-term, sometimes irreversible impacts on logging. It is therefore essential to be able to get the tools and knowledge necessary to improve the decisions in order to preserve the resources and think about their exploitation at a plot or massif level in a sustainable way. Practically speaking, forest management comes in two different scales: - The implementation of a forest management plan, which sets up the silvicultural trends and thus shapes the landscape accordingly. - The practical implementation of this forest management plan through the cutting of the trees which will have been marked. The "marteloscope" allows to simulate the cutting decisions and foresee the final result. A marteloscope is a forest plot on which all the trees are inventoried and numbered. While covering the plot, the forest operator carries out a simulation of a cutting decision so called tree marking by writing down the number of the trees he chooses to cut down depending on his own selection criteria or on contract documents (compulsory specifications). Then this operation can be entered onto a computer program which enables the user to see the consequences on the plot and even process and analyze the data through different aspects: economical, ecological, the risks taken…. The concept of the marteloscope and its uses may vary widely between countries in Europe. Each partner has an interest in this type of approach as long as the methodology and the resulting applications are rationalized. In addition, digitizing marteloscopes, besides its attractive and modern aspects, will enable to have a panel of examples usable by all partners as well as other users outside the project (other training organizations or institutions in other countries ...). The goal of the HAMMER (standing for Harvesting with Marteloscope Methodology in a European Ring) project is to build a collection of digitized marteloscopes, made from existing marteloscopes and conducted in each participating country, with different characteristics according to their origin: regular or irregular silviculture, Nordic type with evergreen slow growth species, deciduous forests, Mediterranean vegetation ...). It will be useful for: - The learners in forestry education and whatever their status: general education and lifelong training or apprenticeship. - The training needs of professionals from the wood industry. Together with the EPL of Bazas located in France, two Spanish forestry schools in Galicia (Antioquia and Sergude), the University of Tampere in Finland, the Vocational Forestry School of Ormea Baruffi in Italy and the training organization Forest Wallonne in Belgium are involved in the project. FCBA, a French Technological Institute will also be a partner in the project. The work programme includes various activities: - Some intellectual outputs such as a website, a virtual platform of marteloscopes called HAMMER and the elaboration of training reference documents based on the use of the HAMMER tool. - The mobility of 96 learners from general education, lifelong training or apprenticeship in order to contribute to the development of the tool including the elaboration of real marteloscopes (inventory data collection). The learners will also contribute to testing the validity of the tool. - The mobility of professionals to appreciate the potential of the HAMMER platform and think about its uses and development for the players in the wood industry. - Activities to promote the tool and disseminate the results: a final meeting with the presentation of the results, the participation in professional events (conferences, exhibitions, lectures...), the presentation of the HAMMER tool through professional and forestry education networks. All the actions will be conducted within the training already offered in the forestry schools. They will strengthen and improve the existing methods. In addition to providing a training support for an attractive and modern forestry educational system, we can observe from the elaboration stage and the beginning of the development of this project that it strenghtens the relations between the training centers and the professionals: closer relations, inter-knowledge ... Finally, elements for further development of the HAMMER tool are multiple and varied. This allows to consider with confidence the post project period concerning the sustainability of the action: parallel projects are under discussion with partners. Other impacts are also expected, since these actions will promote and develop professional skills in forest management (e.g. forest owners) as well as logging (e.g. harvest machine operators). All these initiatives are in accordance with the improvement of local employment.