HUMANITA: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Tourism!
From July 14–17, the HUMANITA Summer School brought students and young professionals to Campus Villach and the Karawanken–Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark for an immersive, hands-on training. With fieldwork, innovative tools like drones and visitor counters, and cross-border collaboration, participants gained the skills to keep our protected areas resilient, accessible, and sustainably managed. Watch Katarina (Slovakia) […]
HUMANITA Summer School 2025: A Resounding Success in Environmental Monitoring Training and Empowering Future Nature Managers
The HUMANITA Summer School’s success marks a pivotal moment in strengthening nature-based tourism management. By empowering the next generation of environmental professionals with cutting-edge tools and transnational collaboration, the project ensures that protected areas remain resilient, accessible, and sustainably managed for years to come. From 14–17 July 2025, the HUMANITA Summer School welcomed students and […]
HUMANITA SUMMER SCHOOL – LEARN HOW TO MONITOR VISITORS & THEIR IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Tourism in protected areas is a delicate matter, requiring a careful balance between conservation and visitor access. The HUMANITA summer school introduces students to evidence-based, participatory management tools that enable them to understand how to assess and monitor impacts of tourism on the environment. Are you a university student in environmental sciences or a protected […]
Tender Invitation – HUMANITA Project (CE0100248)
The Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (FH Kärnten) is launching a public procurement process as part of the Interreg Central Europe HUMANITA project. The tender concerns communication activities to support the Citizen Science initiative titled “Invasive Plants in View”, which explores human-nature interactions and the effects of tourism on protected natural areas. The complete tender […]
Public workshop at the Chata pod Chlebom in the Malá Fatra National Park
On Sunday, July 6th, we organized a public workshop at the Chata pod Chlebom in the Malá Fatra National Park. Our goal was to raise awareness among tourists about the challenges of nature conservation in the park. We explained directly in the field how human activity affects different components of nature and how it can […]
HUMANITA’s first creative videos – Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park: Pietra di Bismantova and Gessi Triassici
One of the main challenges of the Interreg HUMANITA project is to develop tools, methods and strategies that engage the public in understanding the environmental sensitivities of protected areas. This aims to foster awareness through responsible and participatory approaches to conservation. Among the actions promoted, the project aims to create recreative and educational videos to […]
Preserving Heritage, Protecting Nature: Dry Stone Wall Workshop Completed on Lower Kamenjak
As part of common heritage narrative activity, a diverse group of participants – including children from local kindergartens, retirees, concession holders, and local hunters – came together at the end of March 2025 for a unique workshop focused on the traditional craft of dry stone walling. The workshop took place over four days, with each […]
Monitoring Visitors and Their Environmental Impacts – second expert workshop
The HUMANITA project team is thrilled to announce the second-round online workshop with experts, the workshop “Monitoring Visitors and Their Environmental Impacts” organized as a part of the Interreg Central Europe HUMANITA project on “Human-Nature Interactions and Impacts of Tourist Activities on Protected Areas”. The event will take place on June 24th, 2025, at 9:30 […]
Towards seamless and secure borders: CarMen and BorderForce join forces for the future of border management
In an age where global mobility must meet high security standards, two innovative EU-funded projects CarMen and BorderForce are coming together to shape the future of European border management. In a recent joint event „Towards seamless and secure borders: Joint synergies of CarMen & BorderForce projects in border management,” held on July 30th 2025, both […]
Conference with a special session by CarMen – project presented at the conference “European Union funds as a source of financing the development activities of SMEs”
The CarMen project – “Contactless Biometric Border Control for Safer and More Efficient Crossing”, funded under the Horizon Europe programme, participated in a conference with a special session by CarMen. It was presented as a best practice example at the conference “European Union Funds as a Source of Financing the Development Activities of SMEs”, held […]