The Executive Committee has regularly dealt with urban development funding. The further development from 2020 is a mandate from the coalition agreement.

A wide variety of actors are already active, and so the Presidium invited Dipl.-Geogr. Thomas Arndt, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Leipzig, Department of "Landscape Planning, Spatial Planning and Settlement Area", to the Presidium meeting on 23 January 2019. He presented the research results of the study "Urban Green and Biodiversity in Urban Development", which led to more intensive discussions.

These are to be continued together with ministry representatives at federal and state level. Harald Fugmann also reported on interesting discussions from the Dialogue Forum on Urban Greening of the Federal Ministry of the Interior on 14 January 2019. For example, the effects of the White Paper on Urban Greening in the municipalities were the focus of the exchange. The Executive Committee also expects positive effects for the municipalities from the Masterplan Stadtnatur of the Federal Ministry of the Environment, but still sees a clear need for optimisation.

Another central item on the agenda was the follow-up to the closed meeting in November 2018 (for report see p. 32). The task was to compile the activities of the association in a to-do list and to ask the state associations for their additions. In preparation for the discussion in the Advisory Board 2019, the aim is to structure the activities, to sound out synergy effects and to develop model projects for the bundling of management tasks. The treasurer has already made provisions for this in his budgets, as well as for a project to inspire the next generation to become landscape architects.

It is gratifying for the presidium that the spokespersons for construction technology and standards, garden monument preservation, international cooperation, landscape planning and plant use are available for re-election at the advisory board meeting. The working group has proposed Marion Linke as successor to Dr. Ute Fischer-Gäde for the position of education spokesperson.

Source: bdla association magazine "Landschaftsarchitekten" 1/2019

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