Project part-financed by the European Union (ERDF) University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Department of Landscape Architecture and Agritourism Agnieszka Jaszczak, Krzysztof Mlynarczyk, Emilia Marks, Jörg Denekas Results and procedures of project (PP07)

Cooperation  Cooperation between Vorderland (Warmia and Mazury Region, Olsztyn) and Hinterland (Biskupiec Municipality, 5 pilot villages) Partners:  Olsztyn County,  Association of Warmia and Mazury Municipalities  Association “Warmian House”,  Cultural Association “BORUSSIA”  Faculty of Environment Management and Agriculture, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Meetings  Participation – Hinterland Forums (LT,DE, DK,PL), Expert Meeting in Berlin  Organization - Regional and local meetings  Organization – Internal Faculty Meetings (Departments of Faculty of Environmantal Management and Agriculture)  Organization - Meetings of polish partners in the project  Participation - Conference of Landscape Architecture in Warsaw Landscape Architecture in Warsaw  Participation - Congres of Landscape Architecture in Crakow  International meeting with finnish participants (Häme Polytechnic)

Publications, information, project works  Conference of Landscape Architecture in Warsaw (paper: Natural and cultural potential of villages in the project „Hinterland potentials for a spatial development under the aspects of decline” realization)  Congres in Crakow (paper: Cultural heritage of historical Warmia)  Information in the regional newspaper (“Gazeta Olsztyńska”) and University newspaper (“Wiadomości Uniwersyteckie”), uni web-site, papers,  Expertise papers  Exhibition of pilot villages analysis (Department of Landscape Architecture/Biesowo)

Research level  Research analysis of economic, social and environmental situation of rural areas  Analysis of natural, cultural and visual elements in landscape of villages  Evaluation of directions of transformations in rural areas with respect to municipality development  External expertise – questionary research in 5 pilot villages

Results of questionnaries from pilot villages

Educational level  Inventories and evaluations of values in pilot villages  Case study works of students of landscape architecture-during summer semester/Discussions about regional and local (Biskupiec Municipality) heritage and V-H linkage  Social analysis-interviews with inhabitants  Projects and conceptional works of greenery areas and rural gardens in pilot villages  Local meetings with inhabitants

Students works in villages