Training I and Summer School I completed

29 June – 3 July 2026 · online

Training I (29–30 June) worked hands-on with satellite data: climate indicators from space with Gazmir Çela, ASIG’s National Geoportal with Enkela Begu and Iris Mahmutaj, and the mapping of pressures on Albanian lagoons with Sentinel imagery, led by Sonila Papathimiu and Adelajda Halili. 

Summer School I (1–3 July) moved the discussion to policy: land-use change as the main pressure on wetlands, the reach of forest-fire pollution into Lake Ohrid, and two open debates on what satellite data can and cannot tell us. Participants who completed the programme received certificates.

Spring lecture cycle 2026

February–May 2026 · online

Thirteen weekly sessions brought the whole teaching team online, from EU environmental law to the economics of ecosystem services. Among them: Gazmir Çela on GIS and satellite imagery for climate analysis and Blerina Hamzallari on the environmental education of young people in the EU and Albania.

Kick-off on World Wetlands Day

2 February 2026

WISE-EU opened on World Wetlands Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Ramsar Convention in 1971. Dhurata Premti, Esmeralda Laçi, Ejona Bardhi and Gazmir Çela welcomed participants on behalf of the team, and Sonila Papathimiu gave the first lecture: What are the Wetlands, why they matter, and how the Ramsar Convention identifies and protects wetlands of international importance, with the Karavasta lagoon as the case study. The event was listed on the official World Wetlands Day website of the Ramsar Convention.

WISE-EU selected for funding

August 2025

The Module was selected under the Erasmus+ call ERASMUS-JMO-2025-MODULE (project 101239879) and is implemented by the Faculty of History and Philology, University of Tirana, from 2026 to 2028.