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Final Conference of the project entitled "Improvement the capacities of Sumadija and Pomoravlje region for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention"

Zavrsna konferencija svi

Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of the Republic of Serbia, on the 16th of December 2015, in the National Assembly in Belgrade, starting at 10 am, organized the Final Conference of the project " Improvement the capacities of Sumadija and Pomoravlje for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention ".

Final Conference was officially opened by Nenad Popovic, director of the Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje, welcomed those present. In the plenary, meeting was addressed Maguellone Dejeant-Pons, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe, Stana Bozovic, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Asja Draca Muntean, minister assistant in the Ministry of Culture and Information, Biljana Filipovic, national coordinator of the European Landscape Convention and Marija Trikic, head of natural resources at the Institute for nature Conservation of Serbia.

In the working part were presented the objectives, activities and results of the project, as well as the methodology of identification and characterization of the landscape for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention on the territory of Sumadija and Pomoravlje. Also presented geoheritage of the Sumadija and Pomoravlje and spatial data area mentioned districts, synchronized and accessible via the web portal.

In the second session of the working part experiences of neighboring countries in the implementation of the European Landscape Convention by representatives of relevant ministries, institutions and organizations in the field of environmental protection, urban planning, sustainable development and tourism of Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatian, Italy and Portugal were presented.

The Conference was attended by members of the expert and the project team, members of the Commission for monitoring and evaluation, representatives of all interested institutions from the private and public sectors, civil society organizations, all of which are interested in the implementation of project activities, as well as all those who are involved in the project.

Results of the project are reflected in indirect contribution to the achievement of general and specific measures defined by the European Convention for the district, which relate to :

  • identification of landscape in the legal basis,
  • formulate a comprehensive policy landscape,
  • its integration into the planning basis,
  • participation and strengthen public awareness of the area and 
  • international cooperation on matters of landscape.           

It is planned that during 2016 to develop a methodology for evaluation of cultural landscape of the mine Senjski rudnik, the methodology for the identification of urban and peri-urban landscape on the territory of the City of Kragujevac, update databases and web portals and improving the capacity of local people, institutions and organizations for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention.