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From July 18th to 23^rd PLUS was together in Valais, sharing a chalet to focus on writing while discovering the valley.

After a long period of restrictions, we were able to spend a great evening together. We look forward to intensive exchanges in the upcoming fall semester.

The IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress was held in an online format between July 11^th and July 14^th hosting participants from all over the world. Several members of the PLUS group joined IALE 2022 and contributed in different ways to “Making the future, learning from the past” – the focus on this year’s conference.

The identification and definition of landscape types is not only essential for the transferability of landscape planning and management strategies, but also a requirement of the European Landscape Convention ratified by Switzerland. Landscape typologies are usually made by experts or with the use of so-called unsupervised clustering techniques.