<< Background >>Being aware of global environmental challenges and the essential role of education, we decided to get together with like-minded professionals with various expertise and experience (based on local/national experience and approach to the topic of landscape and education) and address the challenges by impacting the youngest generation - children and their educators and parents. The applicants for the project are professionals in the field of main horizontal priority - Environment and Fight against Climate Change and the topic of Landscape (Cultural landscape, Landscape architecture, Environmental processes, Climate change adaptation in urban and rural landscapes/environments) as well as professionals in Education. Furthermore, applicants are engaged in several projects that focus directly on the project target groups (children/pupils and their educators and parents). By developing this project together, partner organisations would like to build on their professional expertise and to support their cooperation and address thus the need for the network on a professional level between themselves and the project target groups. Being a part of a European project also enables reaching more general and relevant conclusions and addressing the issues both locally, but globally which is a desirable output for a project on this topic.After doing initial needs analysis and research into national curricula and the existing trends in education, we came to the conclusion that there is a need to bring the topic of landscape upfront and focus in particular on its essential role in approaching the societal issues of today’s world - climate change, biodiversity loss, social inclusion, cultural heritage and identity. This topic is not addressed sufficiently in formal education and one of the project outputs thus will be to offer interdisciplinary ready to use educational materials with innovative methodology including learning by doing and learning outside. We aim at targeting young children because we believe we can influence their attitude and approach so that they relate to their environment and take an active stance. Children from 6 to 15 years of age usually have limited opportunities to participate in finding a solution and take ownership and the project strives to change that too. This is in line with developing key competencies of both children and teachers.International nature of the project enables us to reach a wider audience and also to realize that although we might be different nations with different curricula and even local problems, there is just one world and landscape. This brings into picture the so-called butterfly effect - although landscape across Europe is diverse we should perceive it as one - actions on landscape on one end can influence landscape on the other end.<< Objectives >>Project implementation will result in a number of target groups representatives (direct and indirect participants involved and reached through the project activities) using the project outputs in the educational process at their educational centers. Target groups (children and professionals working with children both in formal and informal education) will be provided with free ready-to-use Eduscape methodology on the topic of landscape and climate change adaptation and related free educational ready- to- use materials that will complement the existing school curriculum. Additional output of the project -open educational interactive digital platform is to be used by direct and indirect participants of the project activities and further serving as a tool for future implementation and dissemination of the project. Desired outcome of project results is their quality so the identified competencies targeting the users are fulfilled. By implementing the project, a number of educational centers and thus children and educators across Europe are using the project results as part of their curriculum. Through using the project results the target group (children and teachers) gets to understand the essential role of landscape in approaching the societal issues of today’s world, perceive the landscape comprehensively and build relation to it as well as foster a sense of belonging to it /being a part of it through active approach. Reached users will gain awareness on and understanding of the European cultural heritage in terms of landscape and the principles of unity and diversity. Their competences will improve and sense of initiative will increase.Teachers are an important target group for obtaining the project objectives as they pass on their understanding and knowledge of relevant issues to the children in education. It is desired by the project for teachers to understand that the topic of landscape has many layers and can be approached only by interdisciplinary cooperation. Therefore it can be used as a great background/framework to connect different subjects and guide children in searching for solutions on all different aspects/problems of today's society.Direct and indirect participants of the project activities (during project and while implementing and disseminating activities) will build new inter-regional and transnational cooperation of professionals and target groups and public authorities in the fields of education, to share good practices and inspire each other. In this way interconnections between practice, research and school curriculum/policy as well as formal and non-formal education will be reinforced.Also we hope that the implementation of the project together with the activities connected with the afterlife (Sustainability plan) will ensure that the number of reached users will continue to grow. So the long run goal/achievement is that the target groups across Europe are being informed and educated in the topic of landscape and climate change adaptation. In addition to this the aim of project results implementation is to promote long-term positive sustainable behavioral changes in individual preferences and lifestyles. This will be achieved through education and an active approach that the project results are based on and which will require to develop sustainability competences of educators and education leaders and support the planned approaches of the participating organisations regarding environmental sustainability.<< Implementation >>To secure an efficient and successful realisation of the project, numerous activities will be carried out dealing with management, implementation and follow-up activities. The project activities could be sorted into three different activity types:1. Management activities are essential to ensure successful completion of the project as a whole. They will consist of administrative, strategic and communication actions and financial management including definition of strategic documents (Management and Working plan, Quality plan etc.) that will provide a sound framework for the project implementation. The core part of the management will lie in continuous quality evaluation of all undertaken activities. The necessary interface between the project and the European Commission and interface among the different partners (project partners, associated partners, external consultant) will be provided. During the whole project regular virtual meetings will be organised as well as 5 Transnational Meetings (TM), one for each partner involved (1st.TM–Prague, CTU; 2nd.TM–Camerino, UNICAM; 3rd.TM–Madrid, URJC; 4th.TM–Prague, MPD; 5th.TM–Vienna, TUWien).2. Production of specific outputs will pursue a formal road map for the project that will be clearly articulated in the Working plan. The aim will be to successfully achieve the objectives of the project. All project partners will participate in the development of outputs that will be outlined, structured and concluded based on mutual agreement. Each partner will be in charge of one intellectual output.Part of the activities related to production of project results will run throughout the lifetime of the project. This is f.e. - online communications, gathering materials by all partners for Review of literature, media and resources (IO5), Building Eduscape network, Consultation of the ongoing work with associated partners and other external professionals. Other activities will be implemented according to the specified schedule defined in the Working plan. This will include: development of intellectual outputs (Methodology of landscape and climate change adaptation in education (IO1), Educational materials for children (IO2) and Educational materials for teacher (IO3)) but also development of evaluation toolkit (surveys,interviews, questionnaires...) for their assessment. Simultaneously with the forming of IO1-3, the Eduscape digital platform (IO4) will be programmed and structured to offer an OER and free sharing of all outputs of the Eduscape project.Activities related inseparably to the delivery of final outputs IO1-4 will be their piloting and evaluation through workshops directly at the target group organisations and with different target groups (pupils, teachers, schools). Also, translation into the 4 national languages of project partners and their adaptation for uploading at the Eduscape digital platform (IO4) will be done.3. Follow-up activities will include dissemination and communication that will increase the value and the impact of the Eduscape project to reach as large an audience as possible. All partners will take a part in spreading the word about the Eduscape project, its objectives and outputs. Four of five Multiplier events will hold a form of conferences and/or training seminars and a webinar for invited professionals (educators, teachers, NGO´s, landscape and climate change specialists, official representatives in charge of education in the country ) as well as for a wide public. Awareness of the project will be spread through social networks, printed and online media, radio, TV, lectures at the other professional conferences on the topics of landscape, climate change and education. Last but not least concrete steps for successful afterlife of the project will be defined. They will be described in detail in the Sustainability plan.<< Results >>Tangible project results will be five intellectual outputs and connected project outputs. 01 Eduscape methodology on Landscape and Climate Change Adaptation in Education is a multilayer matrix interconnecting the topic of landscape with the societal issues of today and specific solutions on one side and existing school curriculum on the other complemented with selected innovative pedagogical methods and tools. To provide a complex solution for learning/teaching needs, methodology will be complemented by holistic ready-to-use 02 Educational materials for Children (adjusted to the needs of both younger school age 6 - 10 and older school age 11 - 15) as well as appropriate 03 Educational materials for the Teachers that will provide educational tools assigned to determined educational units. Moreover, 04 Eduscape digital Platform (OER) will be created - an interactive gateway and educational tool - that will provide downloadable educational materials but also space for interactive activities for all stakeholders. 06 Review Of Literature, Media And Resources will be available as an additional source on the topics. Project results will be available for free in four languages of partner countries and in english. Connected to production of these intellectual outputs additional project results will be developed. An evaluation toolkit - a set of testing and evaluating methods (survey, interviews, piloting workshops) that will serve to pilot the results, to gain feedback and to evaluate the project results. These tools will be implemented in cooperation with the target groups (through the associated educational centers) throughout the project duration. Piloting workshops with pupils and teachers will themselves be important activities helping the implementation and dissemination of the project results. Short quizzes will be developed and placed on an OER to enable the participants to test their gained knowledge.Furthermore, Training Seminars for teachers will be prepared and realized (as a part of multiplying events 04 and 05 with participation of pupils) and the video record will be placed on OER for future users interested in getting acquainted with the Eduscape results. A video record of: Multiplier event 1.- EDUSCAPE Webinar: The essential role of Landscape and Education in approaching the Societal threats of today's world will be also placed on the OER for future users to gain additional insight into the proposal topics. In order to ensure the same standard and high quality, as well as to burst the implementation of the project results we will host five multiplier events (one virtual) aimed at sharing and disseminating project results. A wide network (contacts database) will be formed between the professionals in the proposal topics and final users/target groups. To ensure successful completion of the project as a whole additional project outputs will be produced dealing with management, implementation and follow-up activities. Strategic documents that will provide a sound framework for the project implementation will be defined: Management and Working plan, Quality plan, Dissemination plan, Implementation and Sustainability plan. Additional value and outcome of the project will be support and cooperation of project partner organizations in their existing projects and research as well as establishing and reinforcing bonds of international cooperation. The interaction between practice, research and educational policy will be reinforced.