MaGICLandscapes will hold its Final Conference & International Green Infrastructure Symposium on 27^th and 28^th May 2020 in Dresden.

MaGICLandscapes project partners arranged a GI symposium in Milano talking about Green Infrastructure concept and its benefits for cities and rural regions...

MaGIC partners met in Italy to review on the outputs so far and to define upcoming tasks, beyond others the draft strategies and action plans to enhance GI and its benefits. Have also a look at the recent video (in Italian)! 

Each month we introduce a particular benefit of green
infrastructure including examples from the project’s case
study areas and across Central Europe.

VENTO (VENezia to TOrino) is a cycling route along the River Po in Northern Italy that will connect the cities of Venice and Turin and is more than 600 km long. It will support...

The Altenburg Benedictine monastery in Lower Austria focuses on the implementation of measures promoting biodiversity, wildlife management and species protection. Around 2,800 hectares of woodlands...

Cities are becoming more and more edible throughout Central Europe! People are cultivating plants of all types and varieties in urban spaces - so-called ’edible places‘, important elements of green infrastructure...

Against the background of high biodiversity loss of grasslands in Central Europe the DiverGrass project aims to identify causes for this ongoing deterioration in the German-Czech border area around the cities of Zittau and Liberec. The project proposes measures...

Located on the fringes of settlements agricultural parks provide a number of benefits and ecosystem services. As large-scale green infrastructure elements they provide employment, food, habitat for wildlife and recreational opportunities for communities and visitors.

A Czech non-profit initiative addresses companies, communities and volunteers to plant trees where is a need for. People are so encouraged to commonly improve their natural environment.

The Karkonosze National Park in southwest Poland is known for its
forests and mountain tops, less known are its meadows, which are an important Natura 2000 habitat and managed...

In 1959 the small village of Brusaschetto above the River Po
was evacuated due to subsidence from mining underneath the
settlement. Most villagers wanted to stay...

Community garden initiatives are emerging everywhere. These commonly created public spaces are valuable elements of green infrastructure in cities as well as in the countryside. They provide lots of benefits like...

The Nature Reserve Lanca di San Michele is named after a meander of the River Po which was cut off after the floods of 1977. These 237 ha of wetlands between the Municipalities of Carignano and Carmagnola south of Turin...

The green infrastructure of the Krkonoše Mountains National Park (KRNAP) and its surroundings provides many landscape services. One of which is to provide habitat for the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix). During the 20^th century...

The protected area Fehhaube-Kogelsteine close to the town of
Eggenburg in Lower Austria is a landscape of Pannonic steppes and
dry grasslands. This nature reserve is a valuable part of the area’s
green infrastructure. It contains...

On the outskirts of Kyjov in southern Moravia lies the outdoor playschool “Radovánky” (eng.: fun/enjoyment).
The playschool is located in the Boršov Meadows next to the River Kyjovka. Until 2013 the meadows and associated orchards were abandoned, they have now...

Find out more about the results of regional workshops taking place in each case study area and involving local stakeholders.