Every year, the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S and EUROPARC Federation award 3 scholarships to promising young conservationists, to take study tours in European Protected Areas! Applications are now open!
https://www.europarc.org/news/2017/02/ats-call-2017/Balázsi Agnes, a PhD student from Romania and winner of the Alfred Toepfer Natural Heritage Scholarship 2015, made an interesting analysis to the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy with emphasis on grassland management in Protected Areas from Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
https://www.europarc.org/news/2017/01/grassland-management-protected-areas/