Swiss AIM is an initiative with the goal to make the existing Swiss forest inventorying and monitoring infrastructures more suitable and responsive with respect to current and predicted environmental challenges. Building upon the existing large-scale monitoring networks (e.g. Swiss National Forest Inventory - NFI, Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research - LWF), Swiss AIM will offer a cooperative conceptual and operational framework to support integrated data collection, evaluation, interpretation, analysis and modelling in space and time. The initiative will also support timely reporting about the forest condition in Switzerland. In this report, the intended main characteristics of the initiative are outlined as they were presented at the Swiss AIM Workshop, an WSL internal event held virtually on 12 November 2020.