Abstract
The background materials is a collection of presentations relevant for rural development, and new texts created for the needs of seminars organized for local action group representatives. For these new texts, an analysis of local knowledge needs has been undertaken.
Presentations and seminar materials are available in the moodle environment. These are materials provided by the lecturers within the seminars - especially presentations, and other materials (methodologies, photographs, other sources and links, eventually recordings of the lectures etc.) all materials are available here: https://dlcv.cuni.cz/course/view. php? id = 336. (This is the Moodle of the Charles University for in-service training, where the course "Sustainable development at the local level - linking theory and practice" must be entered as a guest).