Landscape Forum 2025 Budapest and Danube Bend

The 14^th Landscape Forum of the LE:NOTRE Institute is hosted by MATE, the Hungarian University for Agriculture and Life Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary.

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About the Landscape Forum

Join us for a creative visioning process for the peripheral landscape of the Budapest metropolitan area.

This event is implemented in cooperation with the local NGO Kultur Aktiv and other partners. The forum further includes the final multiplier event and an international summer school of the EU-funded ERASMUS cooperation project Democratic Landscape Transformation: Towards an Open Landscape Academy (OLA) with a focus on the Living Lab activities in Vác.

Get involved in the Landscape Forum Working Groups 2025:

Working Group 1: Envisioning resilient urban peripheries: A children-oriented landscape approach
Working Group 2: Foodscapes: Imagining Budapest’s zero-km local food system transition
Working Group 3: Vác: Towards a living landscape biography
Working Group 4: Between here and there: Sustainable peri-urban mobility
Cross-cutting theme 1: Landscape Economy – From Systems Thinking to Systems Design
Cross-cutting theme 2: Democratic Landscape Transformation

Advancing the Council of Europe Landscape Convention and the New European Bauhaus

ECLAS and the LE:NOTRE Institute act in accordance to the Council of Europe Landscape Convention, celebrating this year 25 years since opening for signature in Florence in 2000. Both organisations are also members of the New European Bauhaus. The annual landscape forum aims at bringing a landscape dimension into this European initiative. The New European Bauhaus is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative that connects the European Green Deal to our living spaces and experiences.