Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

The vision of the Eucaland Project is for Europeans to recognise agricultural landscapes as a significant part of their cultural heritage. Within the scope of the Culture Programme, the project therefore investigated these landscapes, including the values and meaning they have for the people of Europe today. It aimed to describe these landscapes from past to present, in view of a common debate and classification, linking the European Landscape Convention (Council of Europe) with the World Heritage Convention (UNESCO). The final goal was to reach general recommendations on alternative ways to deal with future agricultural landscapes, more culturally and sustainable oriented, addressed not only to scientists and planners, but also to policy makers and especially to the people of Europe. The Eucaland Project brought together 40 institutions from 27 countries with an interdisciplinary and intercultural vision for long-term cooperation on European agricultural landscapes. Among these, a group of landscape experts from thirteen countries have formed six interlinked and coordinated multi-disciplinary teams. Each team undertook research and drew conclusions on themes covering European agricultural landscape issues, and in particular their description, history, classification, policy, planning and dissemination of findings. These have been published in the book: Pungetti, G. and Kruse, A. (eds.) 2010. European Culture expressed in Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Eucaland Project. Palombi Editori, Rome, 224 pp.