The 2016 series of e-learning courses from EuroSDR will begin with a pre-course seminar, hosted by the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, from 7^th to 8^th March 2016. During the seminar, background material of four e-learning courses will be presented by the tutors, participants will meet the tutors and fellow participants, and the learning platform - Moodle - will be demonstrated. Local organiser of the pre-course seminar is Dr. Bogdan Zagajewski (bogdan@uw.edu.pl).

The seminar will be followed by four distance e-learning courses, designed for knowledge transfer from the research to the production domain (see details below). EduServ courses can be followed over the Internet from any location, thereby allowing participants to update their knowledge with minimum disruption. Courses require about thirty hours of online study and are completed over a period of two weeks during spring 2016.