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The Vision

Establish the importance of all matters relating to landscape and landscape architecture as the physical, socio-economic, cultural, visual, conceptual and spatial context of our European communities.

 

The Mission

Our holistic vision demands we establish, support, and promote the landscape architectural profession across Europe, contributing to international discourse, shaping and disseminating European initiatives, facilitating the exchange of information, whilst promoting excellence in professional practice, education and research culminating in a culturally rich, diverse and sustainable Europe.

 

The Strategy

Landscape Policies

  • Prepare and promote thematic subjects relevant for Landscape architecture in future especially climate change and demographic change
  • To act as champion in the promotion of EU and Council of Europe landscape policies, directives and agreements
  • Engage in IFLA´s committees and working groups especially Africa committee and Cultural Landscape Committee

Communication

  • Revise and develop EFLA's corporate design under the framework of coming together
  • Develop EFLA website as a integrated website as IFLA´s European region and improve visibility on websites of national associations
  • Develop and optimize EFLA's information products in cooperation with relevant partners (IFLA newsletter, EFLA newsletter, EFLA calendar, Fieldwork, ELA News, etc.) to reach a wider audience by a better economic approach
  • Develop EFLA website as an integrated website of IFLA's European region and improve visibility on websites of national associations
  • Develop new ways of interactive communication instruments especially for young people
  • Develop and maintain contacts and communication with agencies and professional bodies on European level relevant to landscapes including IUCN, UIA, ACE, ECLAS, ELASA, Le Notre, EEB, IsoCarp, CivilScape, UNISCAPE, etc.

  • Promotion of some relevant European-wide conferences and seminars

Education

  • Promote common IFLA/EFLA education guidelines to national associations and European schools
  • Work with IFLA world level and ECLAS to promote a comprehensive world-wide listing of landscape architecture education
  • Offer guidance to associations wishing to set up accreditation systems if not already in place and offer advise for the development of new schools and with the support from the recognition panel if requested
  • Promote join Common education platform with ECLAS and ELASA
  • Encourage associations to provide information about education programmes and make them available on IFLA website
  • To support and argue for full professional education in landscape education in countries where there is no landscape architecture diploma

Professional Practice

  • Promote the European Professional Qualification directive in cooperation with national associations
  • Assemble examples of registration policies and documents for application and make them available on IFLA/EFLA website for associations
  • Develop marketing products and activities under the fact that landscape architects work is getting a broadening scope of professional practice
 
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