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Estonian University of Life Sciencesstarted participating in the maintenance of urban green areas
Estonian University of Life Sciences signed an international project called GreenMan on Monday, being the only Estonian university that will participate in the discussion between universities, city governments and non-governmental organisations regarding the green areas. The project will help to improve the planning and maintaining of urban green areas.
"It is important that the universities have the means to forward their proposals to the towns, that the academics and politicians of the same field discuss these things. This project will enable us to comment, think things through together and eventually influence the policies,“ Simon Bell, the Head of the EMÜ Department of Landscape Architecture commented.
The task of EMÜ is to do research on the principes of maintaining the urban green areas, put together a handbook on the subject for the city governments and find better infotechnological solutions for it, e.g. for the maintenance of park trees. EMÜ is to help the towns of Pihkva and Rezneke with the inventory of their green areas and to update its own and partner universities’ curricula on the maintenance of green areas.
Beside EMÜ, two other Estonian parties signed the cooperation agreement: the town of Tartu and Peipsi Cooperational Centre. Parties from Latvia and Russia include the towns of Pihkva and Rezneke, Pskov State Pedagogical University, University of Daugavpils, the non-governmental organisations of „Lake Peipsi Project, Pskov“ and the Latvian Euroregion „Country of lakes“.
The project is financed by the Estonia-Latvia-Russia Cross Border Cooperation Programme within European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument 2007-2013.