On Thursday, 12^th of November 2020, project partner City of Križevci together with Associated partner LifeClass Terme Sveti Martin, have organized a live-streamed on-site walk in pilot site – Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia. 

During the meeting the role of Regional Working Group within the project task Integrated Strategy for sustainable management of SPAs natural resources was explained and there was a discussion on reports that were made within the project by Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar as they have shown some good and some bad sides in environmental issues in SPAs and its municipalities, good examples are Sveti Martin na Muri and Stubičke Toplice municipalities with highest level of sewage network and biological purifiers of the waste water.

The event was organized within the framework of Spa 4 Development project. Participants of the conference were local governments from SPA communities, representatives of SPA companies and representatives of the scientific world from the Polish-Czech borderland.

The 4th partners meeting of HealingPlaces project was organized on 23-24.09.2020 on-line. The first day of the two days event was dedicated to the discussion of progress and future tasks, administrative issues and presentation of the progress of the regional Pilot Actions. During the second day the Monitoring and Advisory Board of the project met.

During the meeting on 15.09.2020 employees of the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies of Mendel University in Brno, the Department of Water Protection of the Główny Instytut Górnictwa in Katowice, Poland, KOCMAN envimonitoring s.r.o., and representatives of the state enterprise Horské lázně Karlova Studánka discussed about the possibilities of sustainable development of spas, innovative technologies and socio-economic aspects at a joint workshop organized by Czech partner Mendel University.

Experts from Croatian Geological Survey conducted the research and the final document will be the Multidimensional (environmental and geophysical) study on the circular way of using existing resources of thermal & mineral water providing sustainable use and preserve natural aquifer characteristics (such as pressure) & prevent depletion of groundwater. Chosen method for the research is the Magnetotellurics (MT).

Project partmer Razvojni center Novo mesto attended a workshop under the ESPON 2020 programme, which aims to promote the European territorial dimension in development and cooperation by providing evidence, knowledge transfer and policy learning for public authorities and other actors at all levels.

On September the 1^st, the representatives of the health resort enterprises in Lower Silesia met with the regional authorities.The purpose of the meeting was to initiate cooperation between entities operating in the health resort sector leading - in the long run – to the establishment of a health resort cluster.

After the first kick-off meeting in April with representatives of the tourism association Mühviertler-Alm Stefan Wunderle and Karl Steinbeiß the Business Upper Austria project team clarified the way for further cooperation in the pilot region Mühlviertel in Upper Austria on 8^th of August.

On 8 of July 2020, project partner City of Križevci together with external expert – national Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar has organised an online workshop and presentation for representatives of SPA and SPA municipalities in NW Croatia. Three reports concerning those SPAs and their municipalities were made within project and presented during meeting. This was also an opportunity to discuss collaboration between local governments and SPAs and to hear how they deal with the challenges created by health crisis and what should be done in future.

On the first day of July 2020, a meeting of representatives of spas from the Jeseníky region of the round table took place as part of the project solution.

The meeting took place with representatives of the Bludov State Medical Spa, Velké Losiny Thermal Spa, Karlova Studánka Mountain Spa, Priessnitz Medical Spa in Jeseník, Bludov State Medical Spa, Schroth Medical Spa Lipová-lázně.

The project partners were represented by Mendel University and the Jeseníky Mountains - Tourism Association.

On Wednesday, 10^th of June 2020 the City of Križevci organised a one day Study-visit to Terme Sveti Martin. Participants were students and professors from two higher education institutions: Križevci College of Agriculture and The Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering (University of Zagreb). The focus was on sustainable development of SPAs and first networking of that kind for this projects partners’ activities. First goal was to connect the Terme Sveti Martin (especially its Maintenance sector) with students that study course Hydrothermal resources on Geotechnical engineering Faculty.