Between 2012 and 2016 COST Action Urban Agriculture has organised five Training Schools that were addressed mainly to Early Carreer Researchers and Master students. The Training Schools developped different approaches to Urban Agriculture through lectures, field trips and place-based planning and design tasks solved by the Trainees in Workshops.

see the reports of the COST Urban Agriculture Europe Training Schools:

Athens 2015: Urban Agriculture and green infrastructure

Ljubljana 2014: JTS Urban Food Production

Vitoria-Gasteiz 2014: Urban Agriculture inside the city - alternatives for vacant lots and public spaces

Toulouse 2013: TS From farming near the city to farming with the city

Malmoe 2012: TS Understanding Participation


Training School "Urban Agriculture and Green Infrastructure", Athens

The COST UAE Training School "Urban Agriculture and green infrastructure took place in Attica (Athens region) in Greece from 3rd to 6th November 2015. Subjects of the Training School were:

  • Enhancing Biodiversity
  • Control Climate Change
  • Increase Green Infrastructure

The Training School was organised by Prof. Gerassimos Arapis at the Agricultural University of Athens.

Training School Attica: report
Author:Gerassimos Arapis
Published:19/11/2015
File size:5,13 MB
Training School Attica - revised draft programme
Author:Gerassimos Arapis
Published:07/08/2015
File size:125,05 KB

List of Participants

Trainers and local organizer

Gerassimos Arapis Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Dr. Maria Partalidou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Agriculture, Dep. Of Agricultural Economics, Faculty member‐ Lecturer in Rural Sociology Greece
Thomas Nehls Soil Science – Urban Green, Dept. of Soil Conservation, Berlin Technical University Germany
Matjaz Glavan Biotechnical faculty, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Slovenia
Kostas Tsiambaos National Technical University of Athens, Faculty of Architectural Engineering Greece
Sofia Nikolaidou Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece
Evi Stathopoulou Independent Agro-Environmental Consultant, Athens, Greece
Penelope Bebeli Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Roikos Thanopoulos Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Garifalia Economou Laboratory of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Stavros Vemmos Laboratory of Pomology, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Maria Papafotiou Laboratory of Floriculture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Spyros Fountas Laboratory of Agricultural Machinery, Department of Natural Resources’ & Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Pashalis Harizanis Laboratory of Sericulture and Apiculture, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
Dimitris Savvas Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Faculty of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens Greece
George Papadakis Laboratory of Agricultural Machinery, Department of Natural Resources’ & Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens Greece

Trainees

Theodora Fetsi Agronomist, Athens, Greece
Jiahong Li Architecture, RWTH Aachen University Germany
Denise Kemper Regionalverband Ruhr, Essen Germany
Dona Pickard Institute for the study of societies and knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
Attila Toth Landscape architect, Assistant Professor (PhD), Department of Garden & Landscape Architecture, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra Slovakia
Dionysios Touliatos Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster University United Kingdom
Zoe Heuschkel University of Applied Sciences, Osnabruck Germany
Snezhina Shukina Master Student, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen University Germany
Jan Richtr Prague Institute of Planning and Development, Public Space Office Czech Republic
Ross Young PhD student – Urban Agriculture United Kingdom
Lucy Rose Wright PhD student, Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, University of Hull United Kingdom
Elena Rigas Polytechnic of Turin – Architecture construction and city, Italy Italy
Barbora Duzi Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences, Brno Czech Republic
Nikola Bonchev Urban farming Sofia group - initiator & manager, Sofia Bulgaria
Sofie Brincker Research Assistant, IGN, University of Copenhagen Denmark
Luke Beesley Researcher in Soil Science, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen United Kingdom
Francesco Orsini Agricultural Sciences Department, University of Bologna, Italy
Moreen Heiner Master student Urban Ecosystem Science, Berlin Technical University, Germany
Giuseppina Pennisi Agricultural Sciences Department, University of Bologna Italy
Maya Miteva Civil Engineering and Geodesy, University of Architecture, Sofia Bulgaria
Christos Mellios Student -Architecture Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
Evi Stathopoulou Independent Agro-Environmental Consultant, Athens, Greece
Chara Fostieri Biologist, University of Athens Greece

Training School "Urban Food Production"

The Joint Training School with COST Action "Urban Allotment Gardens" took place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 21st to 24th of October 2014.

Ljubljana Joint Training School on Urban Food Production was organized by Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia together with the COST Actions TU1201 (Urban Allotment Gardens) and TD1106 (Urban Agriculture Europe). It was arranged for Students (at master or PhD level) and early stage researchers (who are in the early phase of their career with at least PhD degree and not more than 8 year work experience after graduation). The joint training school has linked knowledge, work and experience gathered from two COST Actions considering urban food production.

All students actively participated in 9 workshops on different research areas (planning and policy, sociology, ecology, urban design): Walk Through Urban Gardens, Understanding Ecological Food Growing, Understanding the Site, Environmental Aspects of Urban Food Production, Social Aspects of Urban Food Production, Economic Aspects of Urban Food Production, Comprehensive Development of Urban Food Production, Designing Urban Food Production?, Designing Planning Processes for Urban Food Production, Different Levels of Governance Regimes and Policies.

 

Local Organizer:

Ina Suklje-Erjavec, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

JTS Urban Food Production, Ljubljana - complete report
Author:Ina Šuklje Erjavec, Jana Kozamernik
Published:11/03/2015
File size:10,76 MB
JTS Urban Food Production, Ljubljana - short report
Author:Ina Šuklje Erjavec, Jana Kozamernik
Published:13/11/14
File size:2,32 MB

List of Participants

Trainers and local organizer

Dr. Luke Beesley The James Hutton Institute, soil survey and evaluation, United Kingdom
Dr. Paulo Brito da Luz National Institute of Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Lasbon, Portugal Portugal
Dr. Maria Partalidou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Agriculture, Dep. Of Agricultural Economics, Faculty member‐ Lecturer in Rural Sociology Greece
Martin Sondermann Geographer, Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning Germany
Dr. Andrew Adam‐Bradford Geographer, Horn of Africa Unit ‐ Human Relief Foundation ‐
governance and policies
United Kingdom
Mag. Ina Šuklje Erjavec Landscape Architect UIRS /Andrej Erjavec Architect– design aspects, UAG & UAE, Ljubljana Slovenia
Mag. Maja Simoneti Landscape Architect, Urban Planning Policies, IPoP/LUZ, Ljublijana Slovenia
Dr. Darja Fišer Organizer of the National Crops2swap Movement and Gardening Festival Chelsea Fringe, Ljubljana Slovenia
Nataša Bučar Draksler Landscape Architect working on Allotment Gardening Topics Slovenia
Dr. Borut Vrščaj Agricultural Institute of Slovenia Slovenia
Dr. Marina Pintar University of Ljubljana, Professor of Agricultural Land Use Planning at Biotechnical Faculty
Slovenia
Dr. Majda Čerič Istenič University of Ljubljana, Professor of Rural Sociology at Biotechnical Faculty
Slovenia
Dr. Matjaž Glavan Agricultural Institute of Slovenia Slovenia

Trainees

Ivana Blagojevic
University in Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Fruit sciences, Viticulture, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Serbia
Rozalija Cvejic University of Ljublijana, Depatment of Agronomy, Biotechnical faculty Slovenia
Lea Egloff Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Wädenswil Switzerland/Germany
Sonja Fahr RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of  Architecture and Urban Planning
Germany
Vasso Giatsidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Agriculture
Greece
Carsten Alexander Heinrich RWTH Aachen University, School of Architecture and Geography Germany
Amparo Herrera-Duenas University of Madrid, Vertebrate Biology and Conservation Complutense
Spain
Zoe Heuschkel
University of Applied Science in Osnabrück, Agricultural Science and Resource Managment Germany
Snezana Jovicic
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, Department of Bilogy and Ecology
Serbia
Sarah Liebing
Employee at ILS IN UAG Germany
Petra Matijevic
  United Kingdom
Zorica Medo Technical University of Berlin, School of Architecture Serbia/Germany
Mojca Nastran University of Ljublijana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry
Slovenia
Andreea Oarga
  Romania
Valentina Palermo
University of Catania, Department of Civil Engineering & Architecture
Italy
Kristina Piskur
University of Ljublijana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Slovenia
Xavier Recasens
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya(UPC), Barcelona, Agronomist in Badalona City Council
Spain
Veronika Reven Municipality of Ljubljana, Department of
planning, Department of planning of public
surfaces and renovation
Slovenia
Zala Schmautz South Westphalia University of Applied Science - Institut for Green Technology & Rural Development Switzerland/Slovenia
Sean Shanagher DCU/BCFE, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Ireland
Maria Shioya Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Forestry Ecology and Slovak University of Technology, Institute of Management Slovakia
Giorgia Silvestri Pisa University, Department of Environmental Science Italy
Jenny Sjöblom Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Human Resources and Managment Sweden
Lucie Sovová Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Social Studies - Environmental Studies Czech Republic
Andrew Speak Adam Mickiewicz University(Poznan, Poland), University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development United Kingdom/Poland
Rebecca St. Clair University of Salford, Physiology United Kingdom
Basak Tanulku   Turkey
Dimitra Theochari National Technical University of Athen, Department of Architecture Space and Communication Greece/Germany
Attila Tóth FHLE, SUA Nitra, Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture Slovakia
Pedro Vasconcelos City Hall of Vila Pouca de Aguiar Portugal
Zala Velkavrh ProstoRoz Slovenia
Krista Maria Willman University of Tampere, School of Managment, Finland Finland


 


Training School "Urban Agriculture inside the city: alternatives for vacant lots and public space"

The third Training School of the Action took place in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque country, Spain) from 24th to 26th September 2014.

Vitoria-Gateiz has experimented an important urban outgrowth in the last decade, mainly through the planning and development of two new neighborhoods, Zabalgana and Salburúa, situated at the eastern and western border of the city, by the Greenbelt. These new development are well-equipped and designed according to sustainability principles. Nevertheless, among the main problems they present is their over-dimensioned public space, which creates some areas lacking enough density and mix of uses. On the other hand it is very expensive for the municipality to maintain these public space with the high Vitorian urban standards for public space. The proposed solution for this problem is a strategy of "re-densification" through the insertion of new uses The debate has arisen about which are the most adequate uses to insert in order to get an increasing of urban vitality, specially considering that housing has reached its peak and that Vitoria-Gasteiz is well served with social and sport amenities.

The main goal of the TS was to offer an opportunity for the reflection about how urban agriculture might be an optimal alternative for the re-qualifying of this over-dimensioned public space in the new neighbourhoods, especially considering it synergic potential as a tool for production, leisure and landscaping, including the possibility of energy crops within the limits of urban space. Continuity with rural and natural surrounding area through alternatives for urban fringe at the small scale is a relevant issue to be considered as well within the reflection.

Taking Zabalgana neighbourhood as a practical field for experiment, the Training School is conceived as a practical and intensive design charrette to be held during a whole day after two days of local knowledge-deepening through field visits and presentations.

Local Organizer:

Carlos Verdaguer-Viana, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) / gea21

Maria de Santiago,Center for Environmental Studies_Vitoria-Gasteiz Municipality

 

Report training School Vitoria-Gasteiz
Author:Carlos Verdaguer-Viana
Published:14/01/2015
File size:4,27 MB
Programme Training School Vitoria-Gasteiz
Author:Carlos Verdaguer
Published:21/06/2014
File size:116,5 KB

Programme and description of the Training School in Vitoria-Gasteiz

List of Participants

Trainers and local organizer

Carlos Verdaguer Technical University of Madrid - School of Architecture Spain
Henk Renting RUAF-Foundation (International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) Netherlands
Maria de Santiago Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council -Environmental Studies Centre (CEA) Spain
Mónica Ibarrondo Municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz - Head of Rural Planning and Managing Spain
Jesus Mesanza Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council - Environmental Studies Center
Spain
Robert Ruíz
Neiker-Tecnalia - Head of the Department of Animal Production Spain
Amaia Ortiz Neiker-Tecnalia - Head of Plant Production and Protection Department Spain
Nerea Morán Technical University of Madrid - School of Architecture Spain
Veronica Hernandez-Jimenez Technical University of Madrid- Ecology and Landscape Research Group Spain
Ana Zazo Technical University of Madrid - School of Architecture Spain

Trainees

Uxue Arbe

 

Spain
Paola Branduini Politecnico di Milano PaRID - Ricerca e documentazione internazionale per il paessaggio Italy
Katarzyna Bruszewska Warsaw University of Life Sciences - Department of Landscape Architecture Poland
Sonja Fahr RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of  Architecture and Urban Planning
Germany
Ana Fennema Estonian University of Life Sciences - Landscape Architecture
Spain

José Luis Fernández 

  Spain
Jana Frélichová Global Change Research Center (CzechGlobe) - Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change
Czech Republic
Carsten Heinrich RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of Architecture and Geography Germany
Marina Jiménez University of Valladolid - Instituto de Urbanística Departamento de Urbanismo Spain
Denise Kemper
Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) - Regional Association Ruhr Germany
Harmonie Lozé University of Rennes 2 - Social Geography and Agronomy France
Daniel Münderlein Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences - Chair of Landscape Architecture Germany
Charlotte Prové Ghent University - Faculty of Bioscience engineering Belgium
Elena Rigas Politecnico di Torino - Dipartimento di Architettura Italy
Marcel Schwab RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of  Architecture and Urban Planning
Germany
Ricardo TJ Silva Centro de Sistemas Urbanos e Regionais - Instituto Superior Técnico Portugal
Rebeca StClair The University of Salford United Kingdom
Attila Toth Slovak University of Agriculture - Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture
Slovaquia
Janina Wiesmann South Westphalia University of Applied Science - Institut for Green Technology & Rural Development Germany


From farming near the city to farming with the city

Studying and enhancing the links between places,
activities and policies

COST UAE Training School, Toulouse 25-28/11/2013.

The aim of this training school was to give a better understanding and discuss the links between farming and city, through the interactions between activities, spaces, and public policies at a metropolitan scale. In any cases, it supposes the coordination of different actors in order to develop a shared vision of the presence and the sense of productive activities within and near the city, and to develop collective actions.

The specific goals of the training school were:

  • to highlight notions and expertise to study these links in the Toulouse case study, focusing on the territory of the central Masterplan of Toulouse (at large scale, of planning concerns),
  • to experience a participative method to facilitate various actors coordination (by “learning by doing”, giving a reproducible participatory method to the participants)
  • to collectively produce an understanding of the dynamics and possible evolutions of periurban farming in Toulouse (territorial diagnosis realized with scenarios and action proposals in link with the topic)
  • to contribute to the work of WG2 and WG4 of COST action – Urban agriculture in Europe (UAE), by exploring the integration of agricultural issues into governance aspects and spatial visions.

This Training School was held in INP Toulouse - Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan, from November 25th to 28th 2013, and supervised by 6 trainers:

  • from Toulouse: Sylvie Paradis[1] (EI Purpan, UMR Agir), Isabelle Duvernoy (INRA, UMR Agir), and Marie-José Fortin (UQAR- Québec,Canada, visiting professor in EI Purpan)
  • from Clermont-Ferrand: Sylvie Lardon (INRA & AgroParisTech,  UMR Metafort),  Salma Loudiyi (VetAgroSup, UMR Metafort) and Giulia Giacché (UMR Metafort and Univ. of Perugia),

9 french guest students helped for organizational support of the event from Master 2 level specialization “Agro-Resources and Environmental Management” (AREM) of EI Purpan where. A total of 17 trainees from 9 UE countries have participated.

The first day was dedicated to formal presentations, explaining the Toulouse case study and institutional organization focusing on the peculiarities of French urban planning policies. During the afternoon a round table with 4 local stakeholders as project managers (Urban Agency of Urban Community of  Toulouse Metropole) and agricultural institutions (Board of Agriculture, Regional Direction for Alimentation Agriculture and Forest), have been organized. The stakeholders presented their vision of periurban farming in such an urban context and their profesionnal activities in relation to this issue.

The second day consisted of a field trip, where we interviewed 5 different periurban farmers: an important traditional crop grower who is also a farm contractor (at 15 km from the center of Toulouse), a recent installed owner of a small farm inn where we had lunch (about 35 km from center of Toulouse), a poultry producer who’s farm got circled by urbanization at 30 km from center of Toulouse, an organic cereal producer and miller in direct selling (25 km from center of Toulouse) and a vegetable producer supplying a CSA (the farm in located at about 65 km and the selling point is at 25 km from center of Toulouse). We also met the mayor and the municipal councillor in charge of Urbanism of Pin-Balma where a projet of an “agricultural park” is in elaboration.     

On the third day, took place the participative and collaborative experience, called the “Territorial Game”, where a territorial diagnosis with scenarios and proposals of actions got elaborated by the participants in pluri-disciplinary sub-groups. This was specially coordinated by Sylvie Lardon. and the participants had to combine the collected information (datas, maps, inteviews of stakeholders and farmers…) of the two precedent days This itinerary permitted to experience the diversity of opinions and visions, to gather this diversity and to produce collectively a shared vision of the territory. At every step, a collective document (diagnosis, scenarios and actions) was produced. At the end of the day, the trainees were able to make a presentation of this work and to discuss it with 3 local other stakeholders (from the Commununity of Agglomeration of Sicoval, the Regional Association of the Councils for Architecture, Urbanism and Environment, and a farmer & municipal councillor).

The last day permitted to elaborate a leaflet resuming these results and that will be distributed (to the different institutions, stakeholders, farmers and other participants that got involved in the Training School) and to the Cost Action-UAE by the end of 2013. We closed the training school by a debriefingof the event that evaluated the satisfaction and expectation of participants.

Overall, the trainees were mainly satisfied with the collective work, with a very good group dynamics. They acquired a practical knowledge of agriculture in the Toulouse area, even though the time period was very short. Methodological contributions were appreciated, even if the presentation to the local actors did not allow deepening the territorial issues. All trainers and trainees are left delighted by this convivial moment of collective production.

Training School report: From farming near the City to farming with the city, Toulouse 25-28/11/2013
Author:Sylvie PARADIS, Sylvie LARDON, Salma LOUDIYI, Isabelle DUVERNOY, Giulia GIACCHE, Marie-José FORTIN,
Published:17/03/2014
File size:988,57 KB

List of Participants

Trainers

Isabelle Duvernoy Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) UMR AGIR
1248 - Toulouse
France
Sylvie  Paradis INP Toulouse, Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan & INRA UMR 1248 - Toulouse France
Salma  Loudiyi VetAgro Sup – Campus agronomique de Clermont-Ferrand, UMR Métafort France
Sylvie  Lardon INRA & AgroParisTech, UMR Métafort France
Giulia  Giacche University of Perugia, Department of Economic and Food Sciences Italy
Marie-José  Fortin University of Quebec in Rimouski (UQAR), Department Societies Territories and Development Canada

Trainees

Alice-Marie Archer Schumacher Institute United Kingdom
Paola Branduini Politecnico di Milano PaRID - Ricerca e documentazione internazionale per il paessaggio Italy
Chiara Briatico University of Seville Spain
Katarzyna Bruszewska Warsaw University of Life Sciences - Department of Landscape Architecture Poland
Martin Dumont University of Ghent - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning Belgium
Rosalia Fillippini Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa / AgroPariTech - LandLab / UMR Métafort Italy
Nathalie Gozdziak RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of Architecture Germany
Denise Kemper Regionalverband Ruhr - Konzeption Emscher Landschaftspark / AG Neues Emschertal Germany
Luis Maldonado Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Escola Superior d'Agricultura de Barcelona (ESAB) Spain
Lisa Mühlnickel RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of Architecture Germany
Cyril Mumenthaler Université de Lausanne - Mouline - Géopolis Institut de géographie et de durabilité Switzerland
Xavier Recasens Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Departament d’Enginyeria Agroalimentària i Biotecnologia Spain
Karin Sunde Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  project CityFarming - Cultivating the City Sweden
Axel Timpe RWTH Aachen University - Chair of Landscape Architecture Germany
Attila Toth Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra - Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture Slovakia
Carolin Vorwerk RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of Architecture Germany
Xin Wang Universität Stuttgart - Institut für Landschaftsplanung und Ökologie Germany


Training School "Understanding Participation", Malmoe 2012

Why do people take part in urban agriculture? / What benefits do they perceive? / What motivates urban gardeners?

The goal of the training school is to give the participants a better understanding of UA from the participating gardeners' perspective. Policies for UA must no doubt take the participants' perspective as a starting point. To work with, not against, the participants' interests is probably a success factor.

Malmoe has a great variety of urban agriculture initiative, top-down initiatives as well as bottom-up. It has also a variety of examples of sustainable urban development initiatives. The city was one of the few invited cities to the exhibition of sustainable urban development at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. From the city' point of view UA is one of several paths that lead to sustainable urban development. Some of the urban gardeners might agree upon that, but others have more specific motives. There is not just one type of urban gardener. Why do people take part in urban agriculture? What benefits do they perceive? What motivates urban gardeners? These are the questions that the training school is going to deal with.

Each participant is expected to write a short paper on a case they have knowledge of. The paper shall deal with at least one of the questions above. The papers shall be sent in beforehand and be presented and discussed at a paper session the last day. After the training school each participant is expected to write a short paper either comparing the papers that has been presented or expanding their own papers with the theories and empirical observations they have done during the training school.

Tim Delshammar, local organiser

preliminary programme of the Training School

Training School report "Understanding Participation", Malmoe 26-28/11/2012
Author:Tim Delshammar
Published:08/07/2013
File size:1,14 MB

 

Teachers:

 
Joelle Salomon Cavin  Université de Lausanne -
Institut de politiques territoriales et d'environnement humain
Tim Delshammar  Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences -
Dept. of Landscape Management, Design and Construction

Trainees: 

 
Alice-Marie Archer Schumacher Institute, Bristol
Maria Bihunova Slovak University of Agriculture - Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture
Cheng Chang Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Dept. of Landscape Architecture
Ciera Crowell Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Barbora Duzi Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Global Change Research Centre, Department for Adaptation Strategies Research
Marion Ernwein Université de Genève - Département de Géographie et Environnement
Montse Ferres Newcastle University - School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Nuria Font Universidad de Sevilla - Departamento de Geografía Humana
Hanna Fors Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Landscape Management, Design and Construction
Miryam Frixen TU Dortmund University - Faculty of Spatial Planning
Sibylle Henter University of Applied Sciences South-Westphalia - Department of Agriculture
Kristine Herkströter University of Applied Sciences South-Westphalia - Department of Agriculture
Patricia Kettle National University of Ireland Department of Sociology 
Melissa Anna Murphy Norwegian University of Life Sciences - Institutt for landskapsplanlegging
Emma Paulsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Landscape Architecture
Xavier Recasens Garcia Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya  (UPC) 
Kristan Skaarup University of Copenhagen - Skov og Landskab
Marzena Suchocka Warsaw University of Life Science - Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Attila Toth Slovak University of Agriculture - Department of Garden and Landscape Architecture
Helene Weissinger Universität für Bodenkultur - Division of Viticulture and Pomology

 External experts and lecturers:

 
Bahar Baser Okan University Istanbul, Faculty for Architecture and Engineering
Gunilla Andersson Malmö Municipality
Sten Göransson Malmö Municipality
Mikael Wallberg Malmö Municipality
Anna Elisabeth Krook Malmö Municipality
Märit Jansson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Josef Sjöberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
John Michael Taylor Malmö Municipality