The Landscape Observatory is taking part in monitoring and advising on the Landscape Charters of the Camprodon Valley, Alt Empordà and the municipalities of the Valley of the Argentona stream and the Valley of the Tenes.
Collaboration with the ministries of Education and of Town and Country Planning and Public Works of the Government of Catalonia in the implementation of teaching material in the educational innovation project "City, territory and landscape", for ESO. The project includes an educational web on landscape as a new section in the Observatory web.
Definition and application of a list of landscape indicators for Catalonia which provide knowledge and give ability to follow up the state of Catalan landscapes and their evolution, the people's satisfaction with their landscape and the effectiveness of public and private initiatives for the improvement of the landscapes.
Landscape has been traditionally linked to the sense of sight. However, sound, smell, taste and touch can also be as important if not more important than sight when perceiving and living a given landscape. How a place sounds gives it its unique identity. It is an essential facet of its landscape.
A line of research through the Catalonia Historical Landscape project (PaHisCat) on the historical evolution of the landscapes in Catalonia, as a complement to the landscape catalogues.
The Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, in collaboration with the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, has organised the seminar Landscape and Development Cooperation, aimed at studying the structuring role of landscape in international projects.
The Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, in collaboration with the European Network of Local and Regional Authorities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention (RECEP-ENELC), is organising an international seminar called Fringes. The Landscapes of the Periphery to be held in Olot (Spain) on November 11th and 12th, 2010.
With the aim of publicising the wealth and variety of Catalonia's landscapes, since April 2010 the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia has been contributing to the new section "El paisatge del mes" or "Landscape of the month" of the magazine Descobrir Catalunya.
Distribution every two months of the bulletin Landscap-e, as a reference tool of information, training and sensitisation on landscape in Catalan society. It sets out the activity developed by the Observatory and all the information of interest on landscape in our country and on an international scale.
Distribution of the Dietari de Paisatge, a weekly collection of news items on landscape published in the principal written communication media around the world, with special emphasis on news referring to Catalonia.
Monthly issue of the bulletin Landscape Events, offering a selection of congresses, seminars, courses, presentations, conferences and exhibitions, among other activities around the world, with special emphasis on events in Catalonia.
