Two days full of discussion about Green Infrastructure (GI) in Central Europe! The MaGICLandscapes project partnership discussed how to visualise and communicate Green Infrastructure to the stakeholders in their case study areas.

The first MaGICLandscapes regional workshop in the tri-border area CZ-DE-PL took place in Zittau/DE. Regional stakeholders discussed the improvement of GI in the region.

The Krkonoše Mountains have a varied mosaic of montane spruce and mixed forests, tall herb meadows, dwarf pine communities, Nardus grasslands, sub-arctic peat bogs and lichen tundra. Arcto-alpine tundra covers 4% of the territory.

The area around Kyjov is a diversified lowland region situated in South Moravia. More than half of the region is intensively used, especially for agriculture (61%). 

Located in Lower Austria bordering the Czech Republic the case study area is shaped by the highlands of a shallow gneiss landscape, the canyons of the river Thaya as well as by wide open valleys and molasse sediments with rolling hills. 

Thayatal National Park is located within a steep valley cloaked in woodland along the border of Lower Austria and the Czech Republic. 

The River Po plain incorporates protected areas that cover nearly 90 kilometres of riverside along the River Po in the Italian region of Piedmont . 24 municipalities are located in the case study area, distributed among the provinces of Alessandria, Turin and Vercelli. 

The Po Hills and Chieri area is characterised by both hilly and flat lowland territory. On the Turin Hill you can find Superga Hill and Bosco del Vaj and Bosc Grand, characteristic chestnut and oak woodlands.