Summary
LIFESCAPE – YOUR LANDSCAPE helps explore new ways to profit from the rural landscape while preserving its beauty and cultural and historical values. Fourteen partners in five European countries work together and share experiences to come to new approaches for long-term preservation of their landscapes.

The fourteen partners, with ECNC ensuring the coordination/conceptual assistance role up to the time of proposal delivery, have agreed to experiment with ways to develop ecological infrastructure according to a common theme of ‘landscape identity and economic development’. Partners are individually responsible for each of the 20 subprojects; these 20 subprojects are distributed among four LIFESCAPE themes:

1. Enjoyment and learning in landscapes;
2. Exploring business opportunities;
3. Involving local communities:
4. Financing rural landscapes.

 More information can be found on the official LIFESCAPE website http://www.lifescapeyourlandscape.org

LIFESCAPE is funded by INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe.

Project Objectives
The LIFESCAPE project objectives are to:
1. Demonstrate the synergy between landscape identity and economic development, and the benefit to biodiversity; in the context of INTERREG III B.

2. Support regional governments to establish the mutual support between landscape maintenance and economic activities through case studies and demonstration projects in the North-West Europe INTERREG zone.