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Dr. Attila Tóth is a freelance landscape architect, currently working as assistant professor (PhD) at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, where he completed his PhD in 2015. He studied landscape architecture and landscape & spatial planning in Slovakia and Austria. His main scientific interests are green infrastructure from the perspective of landscape architecture, rural cultural landscapes, and urban agriculture. He has conducted research scholarships in Austria (2012; 2014-2015) and scientific missions in Spain (2013) and New Zealand (2014). He has authored over 100 scientific and professional publications. He is Board Member of the LE:NOTRE Institute, specialist adviser and consultant in landscape architecture, Editorial Board Member of the international scientific journal EKOLÓGIA (Bratislava), ECLAS Contact Person and representative of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, and Scientific Commission Member of the G200 Association. His main achievements include two ECLAS Outstanding Student Awards (Master 2013, Doctoral 2016); the Ernst Mach Scholarship (2014/2015); the Green Talents Award for outstanding achievements in sustainability research (2017); and the BMW Award for Sustainability and Innovations (2014).

Anna Szilágyi-Nagy is an MSc landscape architect, working at the Town Hall of Törökbálint, Hungary. She is interested in promoting practices that smoothen the dialogue between decision makers and citizens at the local level. She is vice-president of the kultúrAktív Egyesület, a Hungarian NGO that fosters built environment education for children, and coordinates game-based participatory projects for youth in urban development. Her recent focus is on safe cities and design out of crimes strategies and as CPTED expert she runs the project SAFECITY funded by the Hungarian National Crime Prevention Council at the NGO. As PhD student of the University of Tubingen, she writes her research about the transformation of landscape democracy practices through games. She is board member of the LE:NOTRE Institute, and interested in linking landscape education, research and practice on local and international level.

Meryem Atik is a full time Professor in Landscape Archictecture Department at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey.  She conducted a great number of research project on rural landscapes, landscape toponymies, landscape charaterisation, impacts of recreation activities and the author of book chapters in landscape character assessment and related topics. She had research sholarships at Leibniz Universität Hannover , TU Berlin in Germany and Lincoln University in New Zealand in various times. Her field of speciality is cultural landscapes and rural landscapes in particular. She is currently a board member of the LE:NOTRE Institute.

Elke Mertens is professor of garden architecture and landscape maintenance at the Hochschule Neubrandenburg – University of Applied Sciences. She holds a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University in Berlin (1997). She is co-chair of the German Hochschulkonferenz Landschaft (HKL), general secretary of the Le Notre Institute and had been active in the Le:Notre Thematic Network as well as in ECLAS as member of the executive boards. Elke Mertens has published the Book “Visualizing Landscape Architecture” and has been active as reviewer for different conferences and magazines in the field of landscape.

Maria-Beatrice Andreucci PhD, MBA, M.Sc., M.Sc.is a registered landscape architect and economist who focuses her professional activity, research and teaching, on the application of environmental technological design and environmental economics theories, principles and methods on urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture projects. In both teaching and researching, she levers on an extensive international professional experience in strategic planning and economic valuation, working on complex, integrated business development and corporate finance projects, consulting leading private and public institutions and corporations worldwide. Research works led her to Europe, China and the USA for cross-cultural research on urban green infrastructure, landscape ecology and adaptive urban design, leading to her Ph.D. Doctor Europaeus in Environmental Design from the “Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture” Department of “Sapienza” University of Rome. Her current international teaching and research activities are focused on adaptive design for resilient and inclusive cities. Her work continues to engage environmental technological design, landscape ecology, and economic valuation as an evolving integrated framework, linking nature based solutions’ performance assessment, economic valuation of ecosystem services, and urban resilience capacity building. Multidisciplinary approach, extensive international networking and research-through-design characterize her activities that she carries out actively participating to national and international EU funded projects. She is Management Committee S-Member for Italy of the EU funded multidisciplinary research initiatives: COST Action CA15206 “PESFOR-W”; COST Action CA16114 “RESTORE”; COST Action FP1204 “GreenInUrbs”. Co-chair of the European research project “Eklipse – Urban Biodiversity & Mental Health and Well-being”, in cooperation with the French Ministry of the Environment and the World Health Organisation. Expert and leader of the Thematic Working Group “Urban Economies and Welfare” in JPI-UERA “Urban Europe Research Alliance”. Expert member of IFLA “International Federation of Landscape Architects Advisory Circle”. Member of SITdA “Italian Society of Technology of Architecture” and IALE “International Association of Landscape Ecology”. Her projects have been published on international journals and have won recognitions and prizes at international levels. Currently, she is Research Professor of Environmental Technological Design and expert member of the Scientific Didactic Committee of the II level Master in Environmental Technological Design, at the “Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture” Department, of “Sapienza” University of Rome.