<< Objectives >>The partnership aims to improve the management of natural areas, thus restoring degraded and protecting the healthy and/or endangered ecosystems, while ensuring the wide range of societies’ benefits at the same time. This will be achieved by improving the competences of natural area managers (site managers), as well as local and regional governments on the assessment of a wide range of benefits and how to include them in the management planning, communication, restoration and new funding sources<< Implementation >>The project activities consist of the development of a training course on nature benefits and providing training in five languages (English / Dutch / Croatian / Ukrainian /Turkish). The established cooperation between researchers, training experts and site managers from different European countries will enable both horizontal and vertical knowledge exchange, i.e. both sharing and confronting practices and methods, and result in co-creation of a new knowledge on user-tailored applications<< Results >>Implementation of the project “NATURE BENEFITS: from theory to practice” is expected to deliver numerous results. These results can be broken down into two areas: (1) tangible outputs, such as courses, webinars, guides etc.; and (2) increased (or improved) competencies and changes in individuals that participated in the training.