EU-Teach

"Implementation of relevant European teaching contents in the studies of landscape architecture"

The project "Implementation of relevant European teaching contents in the studies of landscape architecture" (EU teach) has started on the 1st of November 2010. The project is funded with "ERASMUS-Life Long Learning" programme of the European Union and supervised by the "Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency". European universities of landscape architecture and associations of landscape architecture run the project (project duration 12 months) in cooperation.

The partners of the consortium are the Corvinus University of Budapest (Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem), the Universität Kassel, the University of Sheffield, the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and the European Federation of Landscape Architecture (EFLA). The leadpartner of the project is the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf.

Intention and information about the project
The European Union offers various opportunities for landscape architects. Furthermore the work of landscape architects is influenced more and more by specifications of the European Union. To enable good chances on the European employment market it is
essential that the European Universities enlarge their teaching offers with European relevant teaching contents. These "European relevant teaching-contents" are e. g. directives, guidance or the standards for competition and tendering.

The project should contribute to an improvement in the academic education in the field of landscape architecture. As a pilot scheme the project should also support the development of a pan European teaching network of landscape architecture as a teaching cluster.

Participants: Prof. Dr. Markus Reinke, Johannes Reh, Monika Brunnhuber, Dr. Christina Kühnau (University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, HSWT)
Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns (European council of landscape architecture schools (ECLAS))
Prof. Fritz Auweck (European federation for landscape architecture (EFLA))
Dr. Ágnes Sallay (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Dr. Sigrid Hehl-Lange (University of Sheffield)

Midterm event
The midterm event for the "EU-Teach - Implementation of relevant European contents in the studies of landscape architecture" project took place on March 24th 2011 at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (HSWT). The aim of the midterm event was to fine-tune the list of relevant European teaching contents and to schedule project proceedings.

The following partners participated in the meeting:
the University of Kassel (represented by Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Heike Kaiser), the University of Sheffield (represented by Dr. Sigrid Hehl-Lange), the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (represented by Prof. Dr. Markus Reinke, Dr. Christina Kühnau, Dipl. Ing. Monika Brunnhuber) and the European Federation of Landscape Architecture - EFLA (represented by Prof. Fritz Auweck). Prof. Ingrid Schegk from the HSWT took part in the midterm event as an expert for landscape construction.

As a result, a first draft of the list was sent to the members of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and the European Federation of Landscape Architecture (EFLA) for amendments. The feedback was overwhelming. Numerous additions were incorporated and examined several times by the project partners. An agreement regarding the present list of relevant European teaching contents was achieved at the midterm event.

List of relevant European teaching contents in the studies of landscape architecture (pdf).

Further information:
Hochschule Weihenstephan - Triesdorf
Dr.-Ing. Christina Kuehnau
Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur, FGW
Am Weihenstephaner Berg 17
D- 85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Tel.: +49 (0) 8161/71-2264
eMail: christina.kuehnau@hswt.de
web: www.eu-teach.eu