The expectations of forests to provide solutions to both global and local societal challenges are increasing. Contradicting expectations leads to new conflicts emerging, while synergies are also leading to the establishments of new partnerships. One such area that spawn both conflicts and synergies is related to the green transition and the establishment of wind power in contested multiple-use forest landscapes. To enable a sustainable management of forest landscapes, WindyForests aims to co-produce tools, processes and future pathways together with rights- and stakeholders. This will be carried out in three Living Labs, i.e. arenas for multi-stakeholder collaboration and innovation, distributed across Sweden. In these labs, rights- and stakeholders, and an interdisciplinary research team will collaborate iteratively to develop and evaluate innovative planning tools, legitimate collaborative processes, and sustainable future pathways. This will include an evaluation of how enhanced forest management and collaboration could reduce conflicts and enhance synergies between wind energy, biodiversity, climate change mitigation and local land-uses. WindyForests will provide developers, planners and policymakers with improved toolkits for sustainable forest landscape planning, which will strengthen forests’ potential to meet both global and local societal challenges.