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On 23 April 2026, companies and organisations across the country will open their doors for Girls’ Day and Boys’ Day. Under the slogan “Your day, your path!”, pupils from Year 5 onwards will be offered a wide range of career exploration opportunities, with around 23,300 placements and a total of around 174,000 places available.
News · 09. March 2026
Representing the bdla, Mario Kahl and Martin Janotta held a very positive and cordial discussion with Lutz Brinkmann (CDU), a Member of the Bundestag.
News · 04. March 2026
In February 2026, economic issues took centre stage at the bdla Business Forum and the preceding Young Landscape Architecture workshop. Both events focused on the challenges and future issues facing planning practices.
News · 03. March 2026
Entries are now open for the 2026 Peter Joseph Lenné Prize; the competition brief and deadlines have been published.
News · 02. March 2026
The European Commission has opened the application phase for the New European Bauhaus Awards and the ‘Boost for Small Municipalities’ 2026. The awards recognise projects and concepts that combine sustainability, aesthetics and social inclusion, thereby transforming the built environment in line with the New European Bauhaus.
News · 24. February 2026
With the first Bavarian Modernisation Act, the previous option for local authorities to enact their own open-space planning regulations has been abolished. At the same time, the new Bavarian Building Regulations provide an alternative regulatory option: in future, towns and local authorities will be able to prohibit soil sealing, non-green rockeries and similar monotonous land uses that place a high thermal or hydrological burden on the environment or have low ecological or residential climate value.
News · 17. February 2026
The climate and biodiversity crisis calls for decisive action across the board. The bdla is therefore calling for an integrated and impact-oriented approach to landscape planning.
News · 11. February 2026
The Federal Government has presented a draft of the Future Infrastructure Act. The bdla has issued a statement on this.
News · 05. February 2026
The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) has officially launched the IFLA Global Landscape Architecture Awards with a call for project submissions.
News · 02. February 2026
On 24 April 2026, the first Landscape Architecture University Day will take place at the ufa-Fabrik in Berlin. Entitled TOMORROW LAND:SCAPE, this nationwide event is dedicated to the next generation of professionals and the key issues facing the discipline in the future. Students, lecturers and practitioners will come together to discuss, on an equal footing, topics including the further development of university campuses, current transformation processes, new skills profiles and the transfer of knowledge between academia and the professional world.
News · 29. January 2026
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