The Forum Carpaticum is an open meeting of the Science for the Carpathians (S4C) initiative. Including a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines from both, the natural and social sciences, as well as practical knowledge, the Forum Carpaticum is an attempt to integrate different fields of expertise to generate value for the Carpathian mountain region.

The objectives of Forum Carpaticum are:

• to support scientifically actions leading towards sustainability in the Carpathian region;
• to increase the visibility of the Carpathian region in the global change research agendas;
• to link research and practice in the field of coupled human-environmental systems in mountain regions.

Previous meetings were organised in Kraków (2010), in Stará Lesná (2012), in Lviv (2014), in Bucharest (2016), and in  Eger (2018). In 2021 Forum Carpaticum was held online, although originally it was planned to be organized in Brno. The last Forum Carpaticum conference in 2023 was organized again in Kraków.