The aim of the proposed study is to explore quantitative and qualitative links between management and recreational use in forest areas with high recreational pressure and to provide practical recommendations for multi-purpose forest management in such areas. it will be done, by analysing the following aspects in three case study areas: 1) recreation opportunity spectrum, spatial and temporal visitor flows, 2) ecosystem response to the recreational pressure, 3) visual preferences of forest visitors, 4) priorities and challenges of management in forest areas intensely used for recreation, and 5) opportunities for using open-source and/or social media data for forest recreational use analysis and management planning. Apart from being published in high-quality journals and contributing to the career development of students and young researchers, the study results will have highly practical relevance as they will provide datasets on recreation intensity and impact to the managers of the respective case study areas, to aid in the decision making. Area managers and other relevant stakeholders will be deeply involved in the study, thus facilitating dialogue and mutual understanding.

The global objective of the project is to enable potential beneficiaries to gain a better knowledge and understanding of EU practices and to be prepared for accession through strengthening the contacts and mutual exchange of experience in veterinary sectors of civil society in the Member States and Turkey, encouragement of exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies. Our project fulfills these requirements on farriery subject. Specific objective is to encourage horse related professionals and poor families working with horse and donkeys, enterprises with organizing farriery training activities, to improve working equine welfare. The Project coordinator AKU and other partners, Macedonian and Latvian Agricultural Universities are public bodies responsible in Veterinary training in the region. Planned activities are to form project team, to form a list of requirements, to determine educators, to provide physical equipments (farriery tools, computer etc.), to determine education activity program, to arrange visual materials such as brochures etc. in order to deliver the trainees and their families, to prepare leaflets brochures etc. in order to present the project, to determine trainees, to form education workshop, to do farriery trainings in Lethonia and Macedonia with local and foreign experts, to do traininig activity in Macedonia with participation Turkish veterinary related students for enhancing awarenes level of students on importance of foot trimming on animal health, to produce and deliver a short film, to do farriery apprenticeship to trainees, to arrange tours stud farms, to prepare outcome reports with the project outputs. Farriery training activities in Macedonia and Lethonia will be the cornerstone of the project because these trained skilled personnels will have basic animal welfare training capacity to local veterinarians and other relevant persons in their countries. Staff of partner associations are to be trained in Macedonia and Lethonia, and subsequently to establish a farriery training curriculum, with the support of the partners. The veterinary related persons participating at Vocational Trainings in partner universities are expected to deliver their required experiences and competences through the project duration via seminars, local, national, international, workshops. Furthermore, international farriery conference will be held in Turkey with the participation of local and foreign partners. It is aimed at training experts from the region and other regions and in collaboration on a long-term basis at national and European levels. An exhibition about the history of farriery in partner countries will be organized in order to raise an awareness on the disappearing profession 'farriery'. Also a competition under evaluation of experienced farriers will be run among the participants of training activities who will take place in farriery Trainings. Historical farriery museum will be established in the AKU. The museum will include former unused antique farriery tools/equipments which will be collected from older forges. The museum will exhibit the history of farriery in Turkey. The activity will raise the awareness of the disappearing profession and help to promote dissemination events. The project has been planned for completion in two years.

The main goal of the project is to enhance the employability of students through the implementation of relevant eLearning LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) teaching materials, including needs-based recommendations from employers and enhancement elements that pertain to cross-cultural awareness.The project will be divided into two parts:YEAR ONE - teacher training - devoted to:developing the digital skills of language teachers that will enable them to create eLearning materials autonomously and collaboratively; studying the needs of employers concerning the LSP skills required by graduates from higher education institutions entering the 21st-century labour marketenhancing cross-cultural awareness;drawing up a list of recommendations for LSP teachers concerning skills to facilitate graduates’ employability.YEAR TWO - LSP for employability eLearning course - devoted to: creating, testing and implementing a 21-hour multilingual [EN/PL/LV/FR] eLearning course including video content, audio podcasts, reading comprehension, glossaries and exercises - each 7-hour unit will be created by a different partner. Teaching materials will be generated for students whose English language target level is B2/B2+ CEFR and will be accompanied by subtitles/translations in French, Latvian and Polish;creating a teachers’ manual the aim and function of which is to provide recommendations and guidance concerning the course and and guiding principles in teaching/learning LSP for employability.During YEAR ONE three training meetings will be held, one organised by each participating organisation.Beyond the training meetings, three transnational project meetings will be held to ensure effective management of the project.With regard to outcomes of the project, the participating universities will:acquire teaching materials that will enhance the English/multilingual LSP skills necessary for the job market and conform to the learning needs of new generations of “digitally native” students;develop a team of teachers with digital skills enabling them to create eLearning materials independently and collaboratively, who will also serve as ambassadors/subject matter experts (SME) for digital literacy among teachers in higher education institutions (HEI), within and outside their organisations;implement the elements of cross-cultural communication that are crucial to (a) internationalisation in HEI, one of the key pillars and driving forces common to the strategic plans of HEI across the world, (b) a dynamic job market, and (c) intensive mobility within and outside the EU.Throughout the duration of the project and at the project’s conclusion, it is assumed that, beyond the intellectual outputs cited, the following results will also be achieved:international cooperation among universities with diverse levels of experience and different areas of specialisation, but which are all teaching LSP; exchange of good practices and expertise in the field of project management, communication and organisation of the study process; dissemination of the project results among students who will use the course for self-study, teachers/peers from other HEI or vocational schools, in-company course participants and companies.

The Strategic Partnership for implementing the project “Education in rural entrepreneurship through producing and valorising medicinal and aromatic plants” has brought together the private sector represented by the social enterprise Eco Herbal Romania, as coordinator, NGOs by the Association of Consultants and Experts on Social Economy Romania (ACE-ES RO), researchers from The Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research Germany (GA) and public education institution as Latvijas Lauksaimniecības Universitāte/ Latvia University of Agriculture (LLU). This consortium was the greatest mix of knowledge, background and experience in the project area, also in implementing international Strategic Partnerships through Erasmus+ Programme. In almost two years of its working time, the project managed to complete all the tasks and Intellectual Outputs the partner consortium agreed on in the early stage of application and submission. This Erasmus+ project was set up to provide innovative training materials in rural entrepreneurship through producing and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants. This project has provided innovative training materials as 2 Intellectual Outputs: one manual and one curriculum for rural entrepreneurship through producing and valorising of herbs that are endangered or available only from spontaneous flora. Both Intellectual Outputs registered great success and they have been highly appreciated among academic area. This Intellectual Outputs are used in present and will be used for long term in future as great materials for adult education in 4 public educational institutions from Romania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden. The Manual have been awarded with the third place in the category “Best teaching material” in the LLU’s annual contest regarding best books and teaching materials developed by LLU academic staff. Our Intellectual Outputs have been disseminated through 3 multiplier events, organized in all 3 countries of which consortium partners belong: Romania, Latvia and Germany. These multiplier events have summed up 268 participants, from which 169 were local and 99 foreign participants.The activities were accompanied by five transnational project meetings where the expertise and ideas were exchanged, the observation of work plan and time schedule monitored as well as the next tasks and responsibilities agreed.The Intellectual Outputs have been disseminated to 634 beneficiaries through direct interaction through theoretical and practical training, multiplier and other events and to 2273 contacts, scientists, practitioners, adult educators and other people interested in the subject through indirect interaction.Furthermore, the partnership has achieved a real success with its transversal tasks of Evaluation and the Dissemination of results. Various useful management tools were applied in order to constantly monitor the project progress as well as to evaluate its success, like Project Management Procedure, Quality Management Plan and Risk Management Procedure. Also, all partners have been implemented various dissemination activities in their countries in order to spread and publicize our project’s results. This project and the partner cooperation, the transnational meetings and multiplier events have generated excellent learning opportunities, exchange of good practice and professional experience, including exchanges and trade partnerships between different private entities from different European countries.The Final Report at hand documents all the project´s activities and results as well as evaluates its success. This project has fulfilled the Erasmus+ Programme objectives and is still contributing to the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy for growth, jobs, social equity and inclusion. The project is related to Erasmus+ both horizontal and specific priorities, aims to reach large scale of people, to improve competitiveness and to bring added value at EU/international level.