The meeting provides a forum for presentation of recent results and discussion on environment, landscape and European territorial identity, three topics that interfere with each other in the context of sustainable development. The conference aims to bring together and to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue between scientists, researchers, practitioners and representatives of local authorities.

The relevance of the themes covered by the conference is strengthened by three outstanding recent events: 2010 was the International Year of Biodiversity, in October 2010 was celebrated the 10^th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention and 2011 was declared as International Year of Forests. The conference language will be English, but the organizer can provide translation to/from Romanian.