National Forest Centre (NFC) is a state owned public-benefit corporation, which is governed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic. It is comprised of four institutes which united forestry science, research, consulting, education and practice: Forest Research Institute, Institute for Forest Consulting and Education, Institute for Forest Resources and Information, Forest Management Planning Institute.
National Forest Centre actively engages across various aspects related to forest ecosystems and the environment. It undertakes research projects, often based on requests from national and international funding agencies and research programs, aligning with the project's objectives. NFC directly contributes to forest health monitoring, national forest inventory, the assessment of forest ecosystem conditions. It also manages the Forest Protection Service Centre and oversees the control of forest reproduction materials. The long-term goal of NFC is to carry out forest research with the focus on forest management, silviculture, forest protection and ecology, forestry policy and economics. NFC has an extensive set of measurement data from long-term research plots, and several demonstration facilities for the transfer of research results into practice. To reflect current challenges, NFC has extended the focus to wood biomass energy, biotechnology, modern remote sensing technologies, climate adaptive forestry and agroforestry systems.