Having investigated what teaching actually occurs across Europe’s landscape schools subject area by subject area in year one, and having looked at possibilities for optimising this on the basis of best practice and the needs of the profession in year two, the third year of the project will aim to develop recommendations on which of these optimised areas of teaching should form the core areas of landscape architecture programmes.
It will also be important to consider to what extent each of the subject areas should be represented within a degree programme at introductory, intermediate and/or advanced levels. The aim is not to provide a single fixed blueprint for how all teaching programmes should be designed, but to set out a flexible set of recommendations, which can be adapted to the requirements of and resources available in different schools and the various European countries. Suggestions will be made for required and optional areas and core for and specialist topics. The issues set out in the Bologna Agreement will be given special consideration in this context.
The subject of accreditation will be addressed from the point of view of subject matter to be covered, of recommended teaching methods as well as terms of the resources, both human, material and technological which provide the ideal preconditions for creating and running optimum landscape architecture programmes.