Workshop: Garden Heritage in Europe

4th June 2018, Schloss Branitz / Cottbus Garden Heritage in Europe: Conservation and Development  –  International Best Practice Workshop organised by the AWARDING HERITAGE project within the European Year of Cultural Heritage – EYCH 2018 “SHARING HERITAGE” 10:00   Welcome (Representative(s) of Foundation Fürst-Pückler-Museum Park and Schloss and/or City of Cottbus) 10:15   Introduction Jens…

Garden Conference 2018 in Sweden

On April 12, 2018, this year’s conference “Public Parks and Gardens” will be held in Helsingborg (Sweden). This year, new concepts and methods for the development of public parks and gardens, but also for urban quarters are main themes of the event. There will be presentations and field reports from Sydney (Kim Ellis), Rotterdam (Annemieke…

Herrenhausen Symposium: FROM GARDEN ART TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – TRADITIONS, RE-EVALUATIONS, AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Herrenhausen Symposium FROM GARDEN ART TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – TRADITIONS, RE-EVALUATIONS, AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Originally, the area of responsibility for landscape architecture was based on the premise that the planning and creating of open spaces such as parks and gardens was the business of garden artists. Today, the training of landscape architects and future challenges…

Internship and Exchange Programme

Eleven EGHN-Partners in six countries as well as members of the Danish (DSOG) and Swedish (SSPPG) garden networks have shown their interest to support a kind of informal exchange or internship programme for their staff members. This will support a hands-on exchange of experiences and individual knowledge gains. One to two week stays for gardeners…

GARTENFOKUS – Gardens in the South of Poland

In the GARTENFOKUS exhibition series, Stiftung Schloss Dyck and EGHN will show photographs of parks and gardens in the south of Poland. For the first time, GARTENFOKUS has commissioned a photographer specifically for the exhibition. The project is also accepted as a contribution to the European Heritage Year 2018 “Sharing Heritage“. The work by Ferdinand…

European Garden Award 2018/2019

On September 7, 2018, this year’s winners of the European Garden Award were presented in Schloss Nordkirchen. As a contribution to the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 additional awards for cultural landscapes and for garden heritage have been handed out. The five 1st Prizes went to Greece and two each to Great Britain and…

European Garden Award receives funding from ECHY 2018

The application by Schloss Dyck Foundation for support of “Awarding Heritage” within the European Cultural Heritage Year (ECHY) 2018 was successful. “Awarding Heritage” will allow some modifications of the European Garden Award. In addition to the existing categories, there will be a new award for the development of cultural landscapes. It will allow awarding European…