Newsroom of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention

"Message from Strasbourg”: Landscape and health
Sixth International Landscape Day of the Council of Europe, 20 October 2022
The “Message from Strasbourg”: Landscape and health, invites the competent public authorities and territorial actors to consider: the importance of the landscape at global level as an essential component of human being’s surroundings. Preamble of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention (ETS...
Landscape education activities for primary schools: Pedagogical booklet
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention provides that its Parties undertake to promote school education addressing, in the relevant subject areas, the values attached to the landscape and the issues raised by its protection, management and planning. Intended for primary school teachers, the...
Presentation of the pedagogical booklet Landscape education activities for primary schools, in Armenian
National Conference on the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention in Armenia "Landscape Convention for kids"
The National Conference on the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention in Armenia “Landscape Convention for kids – Presentation of the pedagogical booklet Landscape education activities for primary schools (Armenian version), and training”, is organised on 8-10 June 2022 by...
Forum of the National Selections of the 7th Session of the Council of Europe Landscape Award
26th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention
The Forum of the National Selections of the 7th Session of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe was organised in Bergamo, Italy, on 28-29 April 2022, by the Council of Europe – Secretariat of the Convention, Directorate of Democratic Participation – in co-operation with the Ministry of...
National Symposium on the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention in Greece and Forum of the National Selections of the 6th Session of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe
The National Symposium on the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention in Greece and Forum of the National Selections of the 6th Session of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe, are organised in Trikala from 6 to 8 April 2022 by the Council of Europe – Secretariat of...
20 October 2021: Fifth International Landscape Day of the Council of Europe
The “Message from Palma de Mallorca”, on the theme of the 25th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention “Landscape policies! Strategies, action plans and policy documents for landscape quality” (Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 6-8...
25th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention
Landscape policies! Landscape strategies, action plans and policy documents for landscape quality
The 25th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention on “Landscape policies! Landscape strategies, action plans and policy documents for landscape quality” is being organised in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 6-8 October 2021, by...
6th Session of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe
A large landscape garden: “The Renaturation of the watercourse of the Aire”
On 10 June 2021, the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment organised the presentation of the Council of Europe Landscape Award to the Project “Renaturation of the Aire river”. In accordance with the decision of the Committee of Ministers, this Award was given by the Secretariat General of the...
11th Conference on the European Landscape Convention
Organised in the framework of the Presidency of Hungary of the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe 11th Conference on the European Landscape Convention (26-27 May 2021 - online) was to present to the member States of the Organisation the state of progress of the Work Programme of the...
Lausanne Declaration on “Landscape integration in sectoral policies”
At its 9th online Plenary Session (Strasbourg, 10-13 November 2020), the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape of the Council of Europe took note with interest of the Lausanne Declaration on “Landscape integration in sectoral policies”. The Declaration considers: the powerful...


