The several wetland forests in Estonia require a high level of expertise among researchers for their management. The EU-funded LiWeFoR project will establish and develop a global network of living labs for wetland forest research, education and management that will allow hybrid formats of skills transfer, teaching and training. By twinning the University of Helsinki and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as top-class research counterparts and the University of Tartu as the recipient, LiWeFoR will systematically raise the level of expertise among researchers and decision-makers in the widening country of Estonia. The project will perform four joint field campaigns on global greenhouse gas emission hotspots in tropical wetland forest regions (Peru and Malaysia).