Abstract
Thanks to many years of fruitful collaboration with the Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, Eurac Research has been awarded as one of the most significant scientific partners for the Convention. Indeed, the Eurac Research Institute for Regional Development was invited to present the "Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) Protocol" at the Conference of the Parties (COP), the main decision-making body of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians. There, high-level political representatives from all seven countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Republic of Slovakia and the Ukraine) of the Carpathian Convention (CC) participate. The fifth time, since the CC was adopted and signed in Kiev 2003, the meeting took place in Hungary, at the marvelous Park Hotel Palota in Lillafüred, from the 10th to the 12th of October 2017.