LTER Slovakia is a national network for co-operation of scientists, research organisations and stakeholders in the long-term ecological research. LTER Slovakia develops network of research sites designed to study ecosystems and socio-ecological regions (platforms) that can help understand environmental change. Individual ILTER members conduct a wide range of research, much of it site-based and long-term. LTER Slovakia is member of the world-wide network for long-term ecological research (ILTER) and its European chapter LTER Europe. Activities of the LTER Slovakia shapes the Declaration of LTER Slovakia, adopted on 18. March 2008 in Zvolen. Mission of LTER Slovakia is to provide the research community, policy makers and society with sound scientific information, predictive understanding of ecological and socio-economic processes and inform solutions to current and future environmental problems.