Events
SETTI Online Meeting – 20 May 2026
On 20 May 2026, the SETTI project team held an online coordination meeting focused on methodological and organisational aspects of the educational trail inventory and selection process.
During the meeting, the partners discussed the procedures for identifying and evaluating educational trails located within a 50 km radius of participating cities. It was agreed that the radius should be calculated as a direct (“air”) distance from the central point of the city (e.g. main square or city centre). The team recommended the use of digital tools such as CalcMaps for this purpose. At least part of a trail must be located within the defined 50 km zone, although the entire trail does not necessarily need to be included within this area.
The consortium agreed that trail identification should be based exclusively on publicly accessible digital sources. Partners will therefore use platforms such as Google Maps, Mapy.com and OpenStreetMap, as well as Google Search and ChatGPT. The use of direct local knowledge as an independent source of information was excluded in order to maintain methodological consistency among all participating teams.
A significant part of the discussion concerned the standardisation of terminology and criteria. It was emphasised that all teams should use the same terminology and English-language descriptions to ensure clarity for international students and collaborators.
The partners also discussed the criteria that educational trails must meet in order to be considered suitable for inclusion in the project database. The trails should focus broadly on environmental topics and include general information about the surrounding area, not only highly specialised themes such as historical trees. Both walking, cycling and car trails may be included. Importantly, the trail must contain physical educational elements in the field, such as information boards or QR codes.
It was agreed that a suitable trail should contain at least five educational stops with interpretative content, including general information or maps. If several boards at one stop concern the same topic, they will be counted as one stop; however, if they present different topics, they may be counted separately.
The meeting also established that the final trail selection will be based on a randomisation process conducted from the complete list of collected trails. If some of the first ten randomly selected trails prove unsuitable, the teams will continue using the same randomised list until ten suitable trails are identified.
All partners were asked to comment on the draft questionnaire by the end of the following week. The data gathering phase is planned to continue until the beginning of September 2026.