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HERILAND: Cultural heritage and the planning of European Landscapes

A unique, international graduate school, educating students with the highest European training standards.

Empowering planning and design strategies

The overriding aim of HERILAND is the empowerment of a new generation of:

  • academics
  • policy-makers
  • practitioners
  • professionals
  • entrepreneurs

They must devise and guide transdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and mainstreamed planning and design strategies. These include:

  • regenerating European heritage and landscape
  • fostering social inclusiveness
  • creating future landscapes which are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable

Cultural heritage in relation to spacial planning and design

HERILAND is a pan-European research and training network that looks at cultural heritage in relation to spatial planning and design. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813883.

Collaborative partnership

HERILAND is coordinated by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Other participating universities are: