Landscape Economy Online Seminar 2025-2026

We invite you to another Landscape Economy learning experience from Systems Thinking to Systems Design.

This seminar will start on October 13, 2025 and finish on January 26, 2026

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The seminar is free of charge thanks to the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union.

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For whom is this course?

• Are you worried about our planetary boundaries?
• Do you want to understand better what is driving the various systems in our landscapes?
• Are you an architect who cares about sustainable development?
• Are you an urban or landscape planner who wants to make planning and design more inclusive, systemic and strategic?
• Are you an economist who wants to work with other disciplines on transformative processes?
• Are you curious about other people and their knowledge?
• Are you eager to get to know people from other places – academics like you but also citizens and their local issues?
• Do you believe in your capability to create something new?

Then join us in the landscape economy and landscape systems online programme, summer schools and living labs!

Our course is about designing innovation by linking landscape and economy.

We invite an interdisciplinary audience of students as agents of transformative change for the benefits of local landscapes, economies and communities.

Landscape Economy Online Course October 2025 - January 2026

• Our first online seminar will start on October 13, 2025, and finish on January 26, 2026.
• The course comprises weekly sessions starting at 16 pm CET
• Participants can acquire 5 - 10 ECTS, depending on their participation mode

Participation modes and distribution of credits

• for this semester, our regular mode is 5 ECTS
• you can read more details on the seminar assignments page

Seminar topics and schedule October 2025 - January 2026

Thematic seminar sequence

• all online sessions start at 16 pm CET
• a ZOOM link will be sent to all registered participants

We are in the process of fine-tuning schedule and programme. Details will be published here shorty.

Find recordings, slides and readings on our resources page

Seminar objectives and learning goals

Synthesis of TELOS Learning Goals

We expect that after course completion, participants ...

• can list, recognize, recall and understand the main concepts related to landscape and economy, and the main concepts of at least one other discipline different to his/her own discipline
• know how to retrieve missing information using multiple strategies
• define the conceptual connections between landscape and economy
• can define the conceptual connections of the main concepts of at least one other discipline different to his/her own discipline
• can apply this knowledge to understand new landscape economy contexts

We further assume that learners become aware of the limits of their knowledge.

Further, participants should....

• remember the main methods relevant for a landscape economy approach such as DPSIR, Scenario Building, Collective Visioning, Prototyping, Modelling
• know at which stage in a process which methods can be applied
• be able to apply the main methods relevant for landscape economy approaches
• become aware of the limits of those methods
• become aware of his/her personal strengths with regard to each method

Participants are critical and reflective and should be able to....

• name evaluation criteria in relation to sustainable development and to link these criteria to their analysis findings
• evaluate the impact of past and present landscape economy processes
• evaluate the impact of scenarios and of a (new) landscape economy model
• evaluate the plausibility and stability of a (new) landscape economy model
• critically reflect conflicts between sustainable development goals and trade-offs

Participants...

• are able to identify sustainability challenges and conflicts that need to be addressed
• know innovative practices that have successfully addressed these challenges/conflicts
• can contextualise all these elements and translate them into a collaborative process
• can design / co-create a new landscape economy model (i.e. a spatial model and/or a business, governance or cooperation model for a concrete study area)
• can critically reflect the impact and feasibility of the new model

ERASMUS PLUS Cooperation Partnership

THE LOLA project is funded by the European Union under grant no. 2025-1-DE01-KA171-HED-000336413. The TELOS Project has been funded by European Union under grant no. 2021-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000031123. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.