About the Project‘Green infrastructure’ is a key strategy in the European landscape connectivity agenda aimed at reconnecting vital natural areas to urban hubs and restoring and improving their functional roles. It is an essential planning concept towards protecting natural capital and simultaneously enhancing quality of life. This approach, however, is not yet implemented in central Europe landscape planning policies, which seldom consider the ability of land to deliver multiple benefits. Click here for more information about the EU Strategy on Green Infrastructure.MaGICLandscapes will operationalise this concept in central Europe by providing land managers, policy makers and communities with tools and knowledge. This will help them to assess green infrastructure planning and conservation approaches, also taking into account the transnational level and ensuring that mismatched management approaches are reduced. Institutions will obtain the means to assess the public benefit that can be achieved through management approaches of green infrastructures and demonstrate how these assessment approaches are used to develop evidence-based strategies and action plans.Our ObjectiveThe main objective of MaGICLandscapes is to increase the capacities of institutions to improve the management of the green infrastructure resource and promote sustainable land-use, both in areas of high biodiversity and surrounding intensively used areas. This is in order to maximise its multiple socio-economic/environmental benefits and value for communities such as quality of life and environmental services and for the natural world such as ecological viability. This will be achieved through ensuring that land-managers, policy-makers and institutions such as planning and conservation bodies have sufficient information, tools including training in the use of those tools and data on which to base actions, policy, investments and interventions.Going beyond traditional approaches to land-use planning, MaGICLandscapes will develop together with partners, associated partners and stakeholders a number of green infrastructure assessment tools that integrate transnational, regional and local assessment aspects, to include structure, functions and benefits and show how these multi-level approaches to assessment can guide strategies and action plans. It will raise awareness by articulating how green infrastructure management approaches can meet the needs/objectives/responsibilities of institutions and agencies and how public support can be achieved by recognising community green infrastructure needs within strategy and action plan development and provide targeted interventions for smarter investment.