CULTURAL LANDSCAPE – Protecting Historical Cultural Landscapes to strengthen Regional Identities and Local Economies

5D106

Agricultural University of Cracow, Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying
Al. Mickiewicza 21
31120 Krakow
Poland

Dr. Jozef Hernik
Tel.:	+480126624154
Fax:	+480126331170
Email:	rmhernik@cyf-kr.edu.pl

3 - Landscape. natural and cultural heritage
3.3 - Landscape

(See here for a priorities and measures overview)

4th Call

Historical cultural landscapes are typical of most parts of Central Europe. However, nowadays the diversity of these cultural landscapes is endangered by neglected nature protection and heritage preservation and by depopulation processes. The CULTURAL LANDSCAPE project aims at protecting and managing landscapes as a cornerstone of the CADSES identity and as a source of sustainable regional development. Based on a cross-sector approach covering nature protection, heritage preservation and rural development, and supported by a transnational research framework, the project develops best-practice examples for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. This includes raising the awareness of cultural landscapes by transnational surveys (“digital land register“) and an open-access web portal, “Landscape Wikipedia”, to integrate landscapes into regional development by exemplary pilot projects in the fields of agriculture, tourism, regional marketing, and renewable energies. Moreover, it aims at elaborating integrated strategies for the protection and development of cultural landscapes at regional, national and CADSES level. The project primarily intends to establish a transnational network to help to enact the European Landscape Convention in the CADSES area. In close contact with the Spatial Planning and Landscape Division of the Council of Europe, the network will be open to further partners.

Foreseen results of the project are: - Raising awareness of civil society, private organisations and local authorities for the quality, value and endangerment of landscapes as a cornerstone of a regional and CADSES identity and as a source for sustainable regional development, - Protection and management of landscapes as an essential component of natural and cultural heritage, - Enhancement of the knowledge about valuable cultural landscapes in the CADSES area, - Integrated cultural landscape valorisation based on transnational concepts and tested by regional pilot projects, - Improvement of methods of cultural landscape integration into spatial planning and economic development, - Compendium on different new methods and technologies for survey activities (digital survey instruments and land register tools), - Creation of new networks and strengthening of existing networks of cultural landscape protection at regional and transnational level.

Total budget (EUR):	1.354.230,00 EUR
ERDF:	709.567,50 EUR

Start:	04/2006
End:	05/2008

• Agricultural University of Cracow, Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Krakow, Poland
• Municipality of Miechów , Miechów, Poland
• Municipality of Wisniowa, Wisniowa , Poland
• University of Applied Science Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
• Heritage Association of Thuringia, Elgersburg, Germany
• Regional Planning Association East-Thuringia, Gera, Germany
• Environment Management Austria , St. Poelten, Austria
• Grazing Association Ramsar Site Valley of Lafnitz, Loipersdorf, Austria
• University “Babes-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• National University Lviv Polytechnic, Lviv , Ukraine