Prof. Dr Ing. Milada Šťastná is the Head of the Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, and the Editor in Chief of the European Countryside journal. Her professional interests focus on cultural tourism, landscape, ecology, environmental protection and sustainability, related to the climate change impacts. During her 23-year professional career she has published as an author and co-author of 75 scientific papers, participated in 16 monographs and presented 125 other publications. Since 2020, she has been the coordinator of the SPOT - H2020 project: Social and innovative Platform On cultural Tourism and its potential towards deepening Europeanisation.