"<< Background >>There are several reasons why the partnership applied for the project. First is the fact that all the partners of the project are actively working with education in the area of tourism development. Second, all the project partners are also actively involved in educational activities, whether these are universities or adult learning activities. Most importantly, though, the project consortium organised a survey that clearly showed a lack of education towards smart solutions in tourism that is why the decision was taken to prepare an educational project that will promote these solutions in particular and prepare educational materials for adult learners that will focus specifically on smart tourism development.<< Objectives >>The main objective of the project lays in the production of comprehensive educational materials for adult educators that will allow them to promote and organise smart tourism development among municipalities, tourism organisations and businesses that are active in tourism development. This objective will be achieved by reaching a number of smaller goals, namely - organisation of needs analysis, development of curriculum and educational methodologies, development of course materials in downloadable format, development of e-Learning course and internationalisation of educational materials, i.e. their translation into the languages of the partnership from English. At the end the course materials on smart tourism development will be available in two major languages (English and German) and the languages of the rest of the consortium (Bulgarian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian). The project will also produce 70 trained adult educators via its learning, teaching, training activities and at least 270 participants of multiplier events where the project results will be disseminated.<< Implementation >>The first and major project activity will be concentrated on production of a set of educational tools that will allow the adult educators to learn the principles of smart tourism development. These will be available in the form of downloadable course materials and concise e-Learning course. Afterwards, these educators will be able to deliver their knowledge to other actors responsible for tourism development. During the lifetime of the project, the content of the courses will be directly delivered to minimum 70 participants via learning, teaching, training activities and another 270 participants of multiplier events. The project will utilise study visits during the learning, teaching, training activities where best practice will be observed and integrated into learning. These study visits will take place in the cities that achieved great recognition of their initiatives under the ""European Capital of Smart Tourism"" programme. All the project's educational materials will be available in English and the languages of the consortium to achieve a Europe-wide impact and, at the same time, to make them available to national target groups without language barrier. The project will be finalised with the set of multiplier events - national conferences that will create a potential for broad dissemination also on international level as these events will see the presence of both national and international audience. The courses developed within the project will be freely available at least five years after the end of the project's activities.<< Results >>The project will achieve two main results. First being Curriculum & Educational Methodologies Design. This project result will include sub-results of needs analysis and development of curriculum and educational methodologies on the basis of which second project result will be based.Second project result was defined as Course Materials Development. This project result-will include sub-results of development of course materials in downloadable format, development of e-Learning course and internationalisation of educational materials.Important outcomes of the project will exist also in the format of learning, teaching, training activities where 70 adult educators will be trained. Next outcome is presented by organisation of 6 multiplier events in each partner country where 240 local and additional 30 international participants will be affiliated with the project outcomes and will be able to utilise the online resources produced within the project."

Wetlands cover 5-8% of the world’s land area and have a huge capacity to sequester carbon (C). Healthy wetlands accumulate C effectively due to water-logged conditions promoting highly stable C content. The EU aims to cut GHG emissions by at least 55% by 2030.This ambition requires new GHG mitigation measures within all sectors including LULUCF sector, where wetlands as C rich ecosystem can contribute to efficiently to both EU's climate targets and biodiversity strategy. Currently there is still a high uncertainty prevails of wetlands’ spatial and C sink extent, as well as source estimates and sustainable alternatives in restoration. This hinders the efficient use of wetlands in C mitigation and adaptation in the context of other LULUCF mitigation options. We will advance the state-of-the-art on the geospatial knowledge base on wetlands and their use and degradation in Europe. We will apply a co-creation approach to develop procedural knowledge and find ways for integrating multiple targets, supporting more inclusive, community-based approaches to wetland restoration. Diverse novel experimental data on ecosystems’ responses to wetlands’ management and restoration regimes under different types of land-use and will be acquired and synthesised on biodiversity and other ecosystem services (BES). At the local level, Living Labs (LL) support and integrate interdisciplinary and multi-actor research on ecological, environmental, economic, and social issues. Models will be utilised to scale up experimental data from LLs, to gain an understanding of the potential impacts of upscaled wetland restoration options on BES provision, as well as changes in BES provision at the EU level for various policy-relevant time periods and the most policy-relevant CC mitigation and BD targets. We will assess the societal impacts of wetland restoration, especially on BES benefits and costs of different restoration approaches and wellbeing impacts at local, national, and EU levels.