Project VITOUR LANDSCAPE To all Partners of the VITOUR LANDSCAPE project -

LP: Cinque Terre National park (Liguria/Italy) P2: World Heritage Association of Fertõ - Neusiedler See (Burgenland/Austria) P3: Mission Val de Loire (Region Centre and Region Pays de la Loire/France) P4: Working Group Wachau – Regional development (Lower Austria/Austria) P5: World Heritage Association of Tokaj (Eszak-Magyarorszag/Hungary) P6: Association for the UNESCO World Heritage “Upper Middle Rhine Valley” (Land Rhineland-Palatinate and Land Hesse/Germany) P7: Municipality of Montalcino (Tuscany/Italy) P8: North Regional Development and Coordination Commission (Region Nord Portugal/Portugal) P9: Azores Islands Administration (Azores/Portugal) P10: Intermunicipal commission of Lavaux (Canton of Vaud/Switzerland)

Minutes of the

2nd technical seminar in

Krems/Wachau (A) from June 8th to 11th, 2010 "Preservation through sustainable use by land owners and users: sustainable wine and fruit growing techniques, sustainable forestry, green management and maintenance of biodiversity" Final version

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Objectives of the meeting: 1. Getting acquainted with a new partner area, verifying on the field the opportunities that a certain type of cultural landscape can offer: Presentation of the “Landscape of the Wachau World heritage” 2. Good practices in sustainable wine and fruit growing techniques, sustainable forestry, green management and maintenance of biodiversity presented and analysed together

Participants: PP

Name of participant

Public or private body represented / In charge of…; Expert for…

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Ms Giuliana Biagioli

University of Pisa – Scientific consultant for Cinque Terre National Park; knowledge manager for VITOUR LANDSCAPE

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Mr Francesco Marchese National Park Cinque Terre

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Ms Silvia Paolillo

National Park Cinque Terre, designated Communication Supervisor

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Mr Daniele Moggia

National Park Cinque Terre, technician for web-tools

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Mr Richard Giefing

Association World Heritage Neusiedler See; Site manager Representative of the Regional Government of Burgenland

P2

Mr Hans Nehrer

Leithaberg Winemakers

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Mr Mickaël Poiroux

Webmaster of “Mission Val de Loire”

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Mr Guillaume Pain

University lecturer and researcher of “Ecole supérieure d’agriculture d’Angers”

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Mr Michael Schimek

Managing Director Working Group Wachau, consultant “Schimek plant”

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Mr Michael Wagner

Vinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus, Managing Director

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Ms Katharina Gugerell

University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, writing PhD thesis about how to keep up wine growing landscapes

P5

Ms Júlia Nagy

Managing director of the Tokaj Touristic destination

P5

Ms Szilvia Kovács

Landscape specialist, Tokaj

P6

Ms Sara Scheer

Project assistant for Association “UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine valley”

P6

Mr Ulrich Rehberg

External Expert for Association “UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine valley”

P7

Mr Massimo Bindi

Responsible for communication, Community of Montalcino

P7

Ms Lucrezia Messina

Project assistant, Community of Montalcino

P7

Ms Silvia Cesarano

Administrative responsible, Community of Montalcino

P9

Mr Fernando Oliveira

Site manager, Pico

P9

Ms Ivone Machado

Technical office of the site, Pico

P10

Mr Roger Jourdan

Secrétaire de la CIL (Communauté Intercommunale de Lavaux)

P10

Mr Maurice Neyroud

President of CIL

TAU

Mr. Stefan Moritz

VITOUR LANDSCAPE Senior project manager

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Mr. Marco Foschini

VITOUR LANDSCAPE Senior Financial manager

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Agenda: Tuesday, June 8th 2010 h. 20.00

Arrival of the delegations in Krems until h. 20.00. Dinner at Arte Hotel Krems

Wednesday, June 9th 2010 Excursion and on-site meetings with stakeholders and landscape “users”: h. 9.00 Departure from Arte Hotel Krems Welcoming address by Mag. Wolfgang Derler, Vice Mayor of the City of Krems Guided tour with Dr. Franz Schönfellner, historian, head of culture and tourism department, City of Krems administration, through the historic city of Stein, including visits to usually not-open-to-the-public places like medieval Göttweigerhof chapel and the tower of Romanesque Frauenbergkirche. h. 11.00 Guided tour at Domäne Wachau (the wine growing area’s large cooperative, making wine out of the harvest of about 600 independent members, nevertheless being constantly rated among the top 10 wine growers in the Wachau) with Sean Branigan. Warm lunch with typical Austrian food at Domäne Wachau. h. 14.15 Visit to Rudi Pichler Wine Estate, Wösendorf (one of the top private wine growers of the region, Austrian Wine Grower of the year 2010 according to Falstaff magazine): Visit to the wine cellar. Short presentation about the work of Vinea Wachau and Wine Route Wachau, regional wine growing philosophies and the unique quality management and marketing system invented and kept by Vinea Wachau, by Michael Wagner, Managing Director of Vinea Wachau and Wine Route Wachau. Questions and discussion. Meeting with two of the three deputy heads of the board of Vinea Wachau (the regional wine growers guild), Rudi Pichler and Emmerich H. Knoll, the head of Wine Route Wachau, Georg Edlinger, and the managing director of the Wine Estate of the City of Krems, Fritz Miesbauer. Short wine tasting of some top quality wines from different wine estates. h. 16.30 Walk on the panoramic hiking trail Spitzer Graben (good shoes required, only in case of good weather and accessibility of the trail): Guided visit to Nature Reserve Setzberg (in the middle of the vineyards) with Hannes Seehofer, project manager for nature protection projects. Meeting with a number of local wine growers and apricot farmers at “Setzberg Hut” on the panoramic trail, in the middle of the terraced vineyards, discussion, short tasting, with: Josef Högl, head of the local direct marketing initiative “Marivino”, top wine and apricot grower from Spitzer Graben area, Peter Veyder-Malberg, organic wine grower, recently moved to Wachau, restoring abandoned terraced vineyards all over the region to create premium quality and price wines, Leopold Kausl, distiller, member of the board of “Culinary Delight Region Wachau Apricot” (Genussregion Wachauer Marille). h. 19.00 Dinner at a typical “Heurigen” – regional cold food and wines – at Vießling (Heurigen Graben-Gritsch, newly built modern style Heurigen with a panoramic terrace on top of th a historic house with a wine cellar dating back to the 12 century) h. 23.30 Return to Arte Hotel Krems

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Thursday, June 10th 2010 Meeting room: in Arte Hotel Krems h 9.00 h 9.30 h 10.00 h 11.00 h 13.00 h 14.00 h 16.00 h 18.00 h. 19.45 h. 20.00

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Welcoming address by Mag. Barbara Schwarz, Mayor of Dürnstein, Head of the Board of Working Group Wachau Presentation of the Wachau World Heritage Cultural Landscape and current projects nd Start of the 2 technical seminar Presentations by the project partners (in between) Coffee break Presentations by the project partners Lunch nd Continuation of the 2 technical seminar Presentations by the project partners (in between) Coffee break Presentations by the project partners End of the second working day Taxi transfer to Mautern (meeting at hotel lobby) Dinner at Nikolaihof Mautern (Heurigen food, biodynamic wines, visit to the medieval cellar built on Roman walls)

Friday, June 11th 2010 h. 9.00

Meeting Room 1: in Arte Hotel Krems Workshop of the technical working group C3/C4 “Good practices for cultural landscape preservation, development and enhancement”: - Final discussion and conclusions about good policy practices presented - Content development and exchange of experiences of good policy practices? Which working methods during and between seminars, which outputs to be produced? What nd objectives for the next meeting in Lavaux (July 2010, together with 2 PSG meeting)

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Meeting Room 2: in Arte Hotel Krems Workshop of the technical working group C2 “Communication and Dissemination”: - Discussion, integration/modification of draft proposal for a VITOUR LANDSCAPE Communication and Dissemination plan; - Definition of executive proposals for procedures of - . the www.vitour.org updating - . newsletter production, - . Good policy practice DB functions and services - . functions, services and targets of MyVITOUR. (in between: coffee break) Farewell Lunch at Arte Hotel Krems nd End of the 2 technical seminar Departure of the participants

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Excursion day Wednesday, June 9th 2010 P4 used the time to present the importance of economic success in wine growing in order to be able to keep up a small-scale, rich in ecological elements wine landscape with still remaining dry stone terraces in a large part of the wine landscape. The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C

5 The association and cooperation system behind was presented by Michael Wagner at the stop at Rudi Pichler Wine Estate. All wine growers stressed the importance of keeping up narrow but important rules set by themselves in order to give the Wachau wine a unique marketing position, apart from the constant world class quality certified annually by a number of important international wine experts and specialized magazines. The wine growers also showed how important transparency and friendship are to keep up a climate which might yield success to all of them. In addition to that, P4 presented some successful examples of monument protection and nature protection work as well as good examples for modern architecture fitted into the wine growing landscape. The following estates were visited or presented themselves on the tour: •

Guided tour through Domäne Wachau, the large cooperative controlling about a third of the wine growing area and still creating top quality wines (guided tour by Sean Branigan, member of staff of Domäne Wachau, part-time wine grower and Heurigen owner; short good-bye address by Heinz Frischengruber, master of cellar): www.domaene-wachau.at Food at lunch came from the traditional restaurant “Schwarze Kuchl” from Krems: www.schwarze-kuchl.at/

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Visit to Rudi Pichler Wine Estate: www.vinea-wachau.at www.weinstrassen.at/default.asp?tt=WSN_R32 www.arbeitskreis-wachau.at www.rudipichler.at www.loibnerhof.at/wein.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid www.georgedlinger.at www.weingutstadtkrems.at

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Visit to Setzberg Nature Protection Area: www.life-wachau.at www.weingut-hoegl.at www.veyder.malberg.at www.marillenhof.at

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Dinner at Graben Gritsch: josef-gritsch.net

Seminar day Thursday, June 10th 2010 There were 10 presentations held on the seminar day: 1. Sara Scheer (P6): Best practice “Middle rhine cherries” 2. Richard Giefing (P2): Wrap-up of the presentation from Pico: Management of World Heritage Site Fert-Neusiedler See 3. Hans Nehrer (P2): Best practice “Leithaberg DAC” 4. Michael Schimek (P4): General overview about the management of the World Heritage site Wachau 5. Fernando Oliveira (P9): Best practice “Tools to recultivate the wine growing areas in the World Heritage site Pico” 6. Lucrezia Messina (P7): Best practice “Three examples for a sustainable development of the wine growing area in Montalcino” 7. Francesco Marchese (LP): Best practice “Planning and managing a protected and lived area as a good (?) practice” The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C

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Guillaume Pain (P3):

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Roger Jourdan (P10):

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Best practice “The ‘Biodiversity and Landscape’ project of the Saumur-Champigny area” Best practice “Biodiversity and Integrated Production in Lavaux” Best practice “Compensatory measures in the World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine valley”

Sara Scheer (P6): Cherry culture in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley Good practice on biodiversity and sustainable land use: Middle Rhine cherries • Cherry cultivation has a tradition since 800 years in the Middle Rhine valle. The cultivation increased during the philloxera as an alternative to the vines, since the 60ies of the XXth century in decline. Reduction due to: imports from South Europe, growing costs of labour. As a result, abandon of terraces. • Support from Rural Service Directorate, working group “Middle Rhine cherries”. Objectives: sustainable agriculture, maintenance of biodiversity, re-establishing steep slopes, joining plots together • Instruments: scientific studies, compensatory measures, propagation among producers of varieties, • Measures taken: collection, cultivation and maintenance of cultivated area, marketing activities, (in future), regional brand for Rhine cherries, use for touristic activities. database collecting all existing varieties (~ 140). • All necessary stakeholders were involved early enough, so no problems with process. Some • people can do viticulture and cherry growing altogether • Difficulties: only 5 varieties can be sold, the other must have new strategies; difficult to reinforce the market. •

Observations:: NeusiedlerSee has a long tradition and knowledge in cherry cultivation and they have the same project as the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, so they can work together, As 2010 is the year of biodiversity in the European U. it will be possible to ask for financings..

Richard Giefing (P2): Management of WH site Fert-Neusiedler See: • Minutes of this presentation already contained in the Pico minutes. Hans Nehrer (P2): Leithaberg DAC ((Districtus Austriacus Controllatus) Project Leithaberg DAC good practice on focusing on the strengths of an area. Leithaberg: about 400 m above sea level, the easternmost part of the Alps, limestone above sandstone Long tradition of winegrowing, ( introduced by the Romans then continued by the monks . Small plots, widespread small property and small producers: in 2000, 4475 acres under cultivation and 3200 producers, afterwards decreasing .

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, diversified product range 20 white wines and 13 red wines no core product, able to do everything very good, but no specialty Decline process: decrease in 15 % of acreage and 42 % in number of producers, Brand Leithaberg is a solution for not having a specialty: which variety is very typical and shows the characteristics of the landscape red wine Blaufränkisch , White wine Welschriesling and Grüner Veltliner. Involved persons: growers associations, agricultural bodies , Ministry of agriculture DAC wine (Districtus Austriacus Controllatus) created, following an initiative put down in Austrian law. IVarieties, Production guidelines, Clear defined area, Standard for product

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Leithaberg wants to create a new image for the region: create a niche in a good wine growing area

means setting standards in quality, but not yet thinking about how the vineyards should look like Other aims: set new standards in regional wine quality, create an identification between the bottle and the landscape, create a strong base for sustainability. typical regional wines are wanted • Finding new markets: international request •

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The wines are traditionally planted vertically, erosion stopped by vegetation Problem: abandoned areas, particularly area of pasture no cattle sufficient, there are no solution, Nature Park has plans to recover the abandon area of pastures, but they are not sufficient. Furthermore, the young people don’t want to work in agriculture, they all want a work in Vienna. Anyway, with the rising unemployment of young people, maybe the agricultural sector will play again a positive rule, reinforced by other economic tendencies . In fact, as competition for food is increasing, Europe will have to count on its own resources more than before. we need to create more identification with the region to make people stay and create a turnaround in mind. The price for one kg grapes is around 30 Cent, in the Wachau around 1.50 EUR, in Lavaux around 3 EUR. Structure of Leithaberg DAC: 14 wine growers proposed the initiative, after 1 year almost 100 producers became member. Very strict tasting rules developed and executed (80 % failure rate at the moment) – a wine has to be tasted and approved to get the label. Discussion about minimum prices. Importance of the inscription to the world Heritage. very noticeable. A project of a public highway was cancelled as wine producers, institutions, world Heritage , local communities fought together against the project. Two months ago it was cancelled. The Burgenland Governor said the World Heritage was more worthwhile than the highway.

Michael Schimek (P4): How to manage the World Heritage site Wachau • Importance of holistic view on sustainability • How the region is working: centre of attention is landscape, people have to care about the landscape, they need income to keep it up, they get it through production and services: winegrowing and tourism are the most important industries, you need customers to make use of this things •

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Regional development: in accordance with UNESCO enable the stakeholders to keep up the region by their work and to be proud of their work and region, visitors have to have a sustainable thought, quality before quantity and underline the qualities. Sustainability: social, economic and environmental aspects. Networking is crucial: coordinating and meeting, discussing, following the same aim. Financing of the region: Leader, LIFE project, Nature Park, Wine Route, tourism strategy Wachau 2010plus, European Diploma site, Culture department, Interreg, other governmental sources. Projects: reconnecting branches of the Danube: fish need areas to breed, Danube is no longer in its natural shape, but regulated. Projects: sheep and goats to keep the slopes clean and for dry lawns. Projects: dry stone walls: seminars about how to do it (50-60 participants), architects and winegrowers Apricot: 2 rivaling institutions, no good practice at this time, culture was created as a supplement for wine at the end of the 1890ies. National Geographic Traveler Magazine: Voted “Best historic destination” worldwide in 2008 in the annual stewardship rating, giving points to regions according to their environmental status, their cultural integrity, the state of conservation, their aesthetic appeal, the quality of tourism management and the general outlook for the future. New logo and concept of linked destinations in the region and signage system. Bike rental system, world heritage trail. Trail system depends 70% from public maney ( sate and federal state) . There will be difficulty in the next two years to find the 30% local financement.

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Fernando Oliveira (P9): Rehabilitating wine growing on abandoned plots on Pico Island • Big decrease in vineyards on all Azores islands: 1,109 ha in 1985, 953 in 1989, 810 ha in 1999. • 1999: average age of winegrower 54, with little education. Very small estates: 0.3 hectares, difficult access, no mechanic devices. Viticukture most a

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secondary activity or even more a hobby., threaten off young people. Around 2003 3078 ha of vine culture, 74% abandoned, 20% cultivated, rest urbanized In 2004 the Regional Government passed two decrees for fruit support. Until 2008 financial support only for world heritage area, now they have widened the area to the buffer zone. 2,350 euro per ha for 10 years, contract between the grape grower and the regional director of the environment, the winegrower has to keep the fields in good condition. For rehabilitation 20,000 euro per ha, handmade cleaning and building of walls, new plants covers the work in your own field, region pays your work. For implementing a new vineyard the wine grower might need 3 years, so it means 20.000 euro for three years work. Objectives: safeguarding of cultural landscape. Importance of the inscription to World Heritage: very evident. There were projects to destroy everything, the inscription has avoided it. Success: 186 applications, 30 projects approved, for 107 ha, 18 ha already rehabilitated (annual costs about EUR 250,000). Average age of winegrowers rehabilitating is 47. More young people become interested in winegrowing, people are changing their minds about the landscape and the World Heritage inscription another positive example of change due to the inscription Hopefully winegrowing in future will be done without subsidies. Strategy for the time after the subsidies needed: Raise prices for wine, now they’re too low long time subsidies could be a disadvantage because people forget the commercial side of wine growing. A marketing campaign is needed.

Lucrezia Messina (P7): Three measures for sustainable winegrowing in Montalcino • In the fifties of the last century Italy and Tuscany began a big process of economic change with a shift of the active population from agriculture to the industrial and service sectors. The sharecroppers’ families who represented the majority of the labour force in most of the Tuscan territory, as in Valdorcia, with a rapid exodus abandoned the “poderi” (farms ) they cultivated from centuries and moved to the nearest villages or towns. Decrease of inhabitants in the whole Valdorcia from 1951 until now: in 1951 the five municipalities of Valdorcia had 25.252 inhabitants, now reduced to 13.856. Montalcino itself passed from 5,000 in 1951 to 2,500 now. • The sharecropper structural organiasation of the agrarian system was based on a mixed farming (agriculture+cattle breeding) and on a polycultural system in the “podere”, vith a contemporary presence in the fields of herbaceous cultures and above them of various productive rows of trees (mostly vine and olive trees: the famous “two dimension landscape” . The rows trees were planted horizontally against the risk of soil erosion. The end of the sharecropping system led as a consequence to a rapid decline of the cultivated land. • During the 80ies and 90ies new vineyards were planted on a specialized base (unknown before the sharecropping crisis, but for small exceptional vineyards). • A complete new landscape was shaped and a very rentable viti- viniculture established. • Nowadays, 1 ha of wine growing area costs 400,000 EUR. • Presentation of a good practice on Plants protection with three exemples: Good Practice 1 Regulation for the green guardianship and for the plants of particular interest. (NUTS 2) (Town Council decision n°39 9 may 2001) CENSUS It was published an appropriate regulation and made a census of plants of monumental interest to avoid their cutting to plant new vineyards : The problem: was the big pressure to abolish ecologically valuable areas situated among the vineyards The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C

9 The Census has classified 3 categories of plants: • Category A – Plants of high monumental interest (census made also by the Provincial Administration of Siena, 6 march 1990) that can be only felled for public safety and on request of the mayor. • Category B – Plants of medium interest that can be only felled for public safety, parasitic diseases that can put other plants at risk. • Category C – Plants of modest interest that can be felled on request of the mayor. (economic sanctions from 2.000 euro to 10.000 euro for the plant of the same species) Ecological elements of interest are like so maintained through those regulations. Good Practice 2 General Town planning Scheme (Approved with Tuscan Regional Council decision n°9 1 of 29 february 2000 and by Town Council decision n° 41 of 1 june 2000) (NUTS 1, NUTS 3) •Intervention on lands •Project regarding the re-planting of vineyards and orchards Aim: to mantain the existing natural and vegetal forms. In the new vineyards and orchards is only allowed the use of wood supports in order to respect the landscape guardianship. •New plant of vineyards and orchards The new plantations of vineyards and orchards cannot be larger than 6 adjacents hectars Good Practices 3 (in realization) Structural Plan (In approval on june-july 2010) •The plan has classified some agricultural areas called “Zone a maglia fitta” ( Fine mesh net) that represents traditional agricultural landscapes (Tavola P02 of Structural Plan) like ultivation of olive, vine and arable. The fine mesh net areas are considered immutable under the landscape aspect and under the defence of soil aspect. Main objectives: -Maintenance of characteristic landscapes with fine mesh net -Increase of biodiversity Rregulation of ecologic balances, of soil stability, against soil erosion coming from mechanized intensive viticukture. Observation: Smaller sites have advantages to put regulations into action than larger sites. Francesco Marchese (LP): Planning and managing a protected and lived area as a good (?) practice Situation in former times: The role of local communities was determinant in the building of the landscape in centuries. Decadence starting with the industrialisation of the town of La Spezia and with the arrival of the philloxera in the late twenties of the XXth century . Situation getting worse in the last 50 years. Descent from 1200 ha in vineyard (he maximum surface reached in the 20th century) to less than 100 ha in the 1970’s. Local community always played a fundamental role in the surviving of the landscape: 1. In the ‘70ies birth of the cooperative monorail constructed in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The role of the Local Community: 2. Demand for more public actions to make the landscape survive and for the protection and maintenance of the terraced landscape. This led to:: 1997 Inscription in the World heritage List 1999 Institution of Cinque Terre National Park National park Good ( ?) Practices on planning and managing the territory: -Innovative tools provided by the Plan of the Park (art.7 – art. 35) -Pilot projects to recover abandoned land and lost grapevines -Integration between traditional ecological knowledge and modern knowledge -Promotion of agriculture as an added value -Collaboration with Ministry of Culture, Corpo Forestale dello Stato and associations: cooperation at the different administrative levels

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1 Projects to re-qualify landscape and environment and for the sustainable development of territory” (art.7 of Park Masterplan:: complex programmes with different subjects as public bodies, privates) Integration of recovering projects of rural buildings and recovering of abandoned terraces ( Park Masterplan, art. 35: in the C zone core of the UNESCO site and N.P. no new buildings allowed. To restore already existing rural buildings it is necessity to recover a certain surface of terraces. Guidelines of interventions on rural buildings (Ministry of Culture – University) and dry stone walls Empowering the monorails, taking care of rural buildings. landscape Importance of the Corpo forestale dello Stato focused on landscape maintenance in the Cinque Terre example. Financial support schemes, training schemes developed. Promotion of added value of local products from traditionally produced wines to honey, marmelade, Some young people came back to the area and started commercial activities. People were made aware that it is necessary to pay higher prices. Some agricultural area on the terraces was recovered during the last years, with vines cultivated in rows so to make it possible to use little mechanical tools Problems: from the low pergola to rows mean he abandon of the shape the terraced vineyard th th landscape had in the 19 and in the 20 century: so is it a real good practice? It is true, anyway, that the low pergola was itself a step in the evolution of the vine cultivation, due to the necessity to increase the quantity, even if with a decrease in quality, of wine from a certain surface. It could depend from a demographic pressure on the existing resources, or, at the opposite, from a decreasing labour force in the vineyards due to different economic and social reasons. Observation: The important problem raised here is: What are the historical landscapes of our cultural landscapes? Belonging to what century? Who has decided what are the shapes of our cultural landscapes? Exogenous actors? The local communities? Very important issue, to be discussed somewhere and somehow in future.

Guillaume Pain (P3): The “Biodiversity and Landscape” project of the Saumur-Champigny area • Viticulture is generally considered an intensive crop using lot of pesticides and generating homogeneous landscape with a poor biological diversity. • Good practice project ( university) for biodiversity management in vineyards at landscape scale, to limit the current erosion of biodiversity and to realise conservation biological control. • Good practice: The “biodiversity and landscape” project for the Samour-Champigly ( appellation controllée, AOC) tra Saumur and Fontevraud: 2004-2007. • In the 90ies they started introducing grass in the vineyards. • The question of research is whether biodiversity can support the natural control of vine pests by beneficial organisms, thus enabling winegrowers to reduce the use of pesticides. • Bet: “An increase in the biodiversity in vineyards will have a regulatory effects on pest population” • The research area: 6,000 ha with 1,600 ha vinyards, 9 communities, 120 winegrowers, 1 cooperative, wine covers 30 %. • Study was done together with the local AOC organization, the chamber of agriculture, the local municipalities. • 20 km hedges were planted to support typical birds of the wine landscape. Hedges typology: from a previous research. • • • • •

Regionally different concentrations of pests gis-analysis. Lesson learned: Landscape may influence the spatial distributions of pests in the vineyards It is possible to create ECA in wine growing landscape without decreasing the area of vines Still no clear answers, long-term monitoring has to be implemented. The winegrowers are mostly for the project, it supports them, doesn’t cost them a lot of money, good press echo. The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C

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Roger Jourdan (P10): Biodiversity and integrated production in Lavaux Switzerland was pioneer in integrated production, voluntarily, with inputs from professionals. Financial support by Government from 1993 (PER Prestations écologiques requised, direct payment) • “Vitiswiss” is head of several regional biodiversity movements, gives out certificates, has created the label “Vinatura”. • The label started in 2003, 2009 about 50 % of wine growing area participated, although only 2 % were biologically producing. • • •

Vitiswiss wants to reduce insecticides, herbicides, copper increase of biodiversity. Optimizing of usage of chemical components. Enables lifelong learning, adds economic value to winegrowing.

Ulrich Rehberg (P6): Compensatory measures in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley • The German Nature Protection legislation has defined compensatory measures for changes done to the ecological status of an area. • Huge decrease of wine growing area in the last decades, loss of open landscape, of species linked to the wine growing landscape. • The German Railways are running two backbone railway lines of the German railway net through the valley, need devices to keep of stone damage from the tracks. • As a compensation for putting up these nets the German Railways have to keep open landscape for 30 years, thus re-opening the wine growing landscape, important viewpoints. • After selecting suitable plots, they are cleared from the scrubs, new usages are found, some are grazed by sheep and goats, sometimes dry stone walls are restored. • New usages are an option, like planting wine again, use for cherry trees.

Meetings of the interregional technical working groups Friday, June 11th 2010 Workshop of the technical working group C3/C4 “Good practices for cultural landscape preservation, development and enhancement” Participants to this workshop: Giuliana Biagioli, Francesco Marchese, Richard Giefing, Guillaume Pain, Michael Schimek, Sara Scheer, Silvia Cesarano, Fernando Oliveira Moderator: Michael Schimek The group discussed a number of issues. The results are kept in these minutes: Structure of the presentations The presentation grid: • The grid as developed following the Pico seminar is welcomed by all partners. • P3 proposes that the grid should be amended by two more slides (on which regional level is the best practice located, long-term perspective of the best practice). The other partners agree to this change. The seminar days For the seminars, the group proposes the following regulation: The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C

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The seminar day should be one day consisting of max. 10 presentations (1 per partner). Each presentation should not exceed 15 minutes of length, reserving 15 minutes on discussions on the presentation. Each partner should report to the TAB 10 days before the start of the technical seminar by the latest if they want to hold a presentation. 10 days before the seminar the TAB sends out the intermediate number of presentations, then the day may be filled up with additional presentations until max. 10 presentations, first come first serve principle.

Opening the best practice database to external contributors The group proposes: • The database should be opened up somehow (how -> to be clarified by the technical group) to best practice examples from other agriculturally-productive landscapes from Europe, but give us some time to grow as a group, so not open the database before autumn 2010. The minutes The minutes will look like this: • Programme of the meeting on top – done by the organizing partner. • Description of the site visit and meetings with local experts (1 page), websites of visited sites and organizations if there is one – done by the organizing partner. • Abstracts of the presentations (150 words = ½ page Arial font 11 pt) from each partner to be given in at the seminar – done by each partner. • Conclusions by the experts (to be given in 14 days after the seminar) – done by the experts, exact ways to be defined below. The minutes will be drafted by the organizing partner 3 weeks after the seminar and sent out to the partners afterwards. 7 days time to respond. No reply = agreement. Afterwards minute keeper adds the objections and finalizes the minutes. Minutes of interregional working groups and PSG meetings – to be done by the moderator of the meeting. Team of experts: Who? What? When? The team will finally consist of: Giuliana Biagioli Michèle Prats Joachim Bender All three are contracted by the relevant partners (LP, P3, P6), but are paid by all partners jointly. Their contracts will more or less look alike (this was defined in Riomaggiore). The interregional working group asks the three-expert team the following: • The three-experts team shall present a work plan at the PSG meeting in Chexbres on how the work within the project is divided among the three people. • Giuliana Biagioli informs the World Heritage Center about the project, its goals and its layout. We invite UNESCO to observe the project and name a person to be in charge of doing so. • We inform at the same time that Michèle Prats is part of the project, but as an independent expert nominated by P3, not in her role as Vice President of ICOMOS France. How to make sure that the presentations can be entered into the database and will in the end contribute to the guidelines (workflow presentations -> database -> guidelines) It seems that the grid will help of standardizing the presentations in a way so that they can easily be entered into the best-practice database. As for the transformation from the database into the guidelines, the working group decides:

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Since the three-expert team has shifted, there has not been a chance yet to think about a methodological way to transform the database results into the guidelines. The three-expert team is asked to elaborate and present a first draft of the future methodology until the Boppard meeting in September.

Workshop of the technical working group C2 “Communication and Dissemination” Participants to this workshop: Silvia Paolillo, Daniele Moggia, Mickaël Poiroux, Michael Wagner, Ulrich Rehberg, Massimo Bindi, Lucrezia Messina, Ivone Machado Moderator: Stefan Moritz -

Discussion, integration/modification of draft proposal for a VITOUR LANDSCAPE Communication and Dissemination plan: The participants started to read together the draft version of the Communication and Dissemination Plan (CDP), delivered and exposed by Ms. Silvia Paolillo. All participants agreed on the descriptions of the project identity, target groups and image, included the proposal to maintain the logo of the first project without amendments, but to use regularly the name of the new project until end of 2012 (“VITOUR LANDSCAPE”). This lead also to the proposal by Mr. Massimo Bindi from Montalcino to prepare a VITOUR LANDSCAPE memory stick with all information about the project and the partners, as well as a photo gallery (5 high quality photos per partner), which could be used instead of a “press folder” for the communication and dissemination work. The partners agreed to transfer to this memory key the main contents of the website, as well as re-linking from the texts to the website and the Good Practice Blog for a continuous updating of results. The production of this memory sticks will be done by LP as soon as the website has been updated. - Definition of executive proposals for procedures of the www.vitour.org updating: The next issue – as also listed in the CDP – was the updating of the existing website www.vitour.org, which requires the introduction of the 4 new partners of VITOUR LANDSCAPE (P4, P7, P9, P10) and a short description of the new project. As the “old” website needs also a total re-structuring of the actual CMS system and background software – which from now on should be open-source and easily updatable – after a detailed discussion the participants decided to proceed in the following way: 1. The website www.vitour.org should be STARTING POINT to all web-tools and to get access to all information about the old and the new project and partners. The website’s language is that planned in the VITOUR LANDSCAPE project, i.e. only English. 2. Daniele Moggia (LP) – in strict cooperation with Mickael Poiroux (P3) – will restructure the site’s software and CMS. This might in case also require to restructure the whole webdesign and navigation menu, as far as it has to be compatible with the new project and contents, and to change the hosting server. In this case the LP will engage also a webdesigner for this task. The partner will have the possibility to validate the new website version as a first test during the next PSG meeting in Lavaux (CH), at the beginning of July. 3. Silvia Paolillo (LP) will collect from all 4 new partners the new contents on the format basis of the actually already existing descriptions and information about the “old” 6 partners. Those partners of these 6 “older” partners, that want to update their info and photos, are asked to contact Silvia. 4. Stefan Moritz will write a short description of the VITOUR LANDSCAPE project, in the format of the description of the former VITOUR project. - Newsletter production: The participants discussed then the production process of the 12 newsletters, which contents and which responsibilities for all partners. The results of this discussion were: The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C

1 1. Michael Wagner, the web-editor of VITOUR LANDSCAPE (P4), will elaborate a format proposal that should be connected with the website re-design, so he will be in strict contact with Daniele Moggia. The single newsletters should arrive to the members of the mailing list by e-mail, but should also be accessible directly on the website www.vitour.org. 2. Furthermore, Michael Wagner will elaborate an editorial plan, i.e. which contents should be published for each newsletter, and who will do what. I.e. for the single articles it is understood that ALL partners contribute to the first drafts of articles, following the instructions of the web-editor (which stays in contact with the Communication Supervisor, Silvia Paolillo for that) and choosing the time when they will contribute, as well as how they will write the articles. The web-editor will then make a final edition of all articles for one newsletter, in order to mainstream and correct the articles also from the linguistic point of view. 3. With the new CMS, that Daniele Moggia will install, there shall be also a facility to be used by the partners’ local responsible for communication and dissemination, where to insert all mail addresses THEY SUPPOSE to be the best, with an orientation help from the CDP where the target groups are explained for each tool. Obviously, the responsibility of inserting mail addresses to this common mailing list is that of each single partner that decides on the addresses to be inserted, but the recipients of the newsletter will have the chance to unsubscribe easily from this mailing list. The bigger the mailing list is, and the better the project outcomes can be disseminated, with a positive communication effect for the partner areas, particularly also in English language. 4. This facility as well as the editorial plan and the newsletter format shall be presented and validated by the PSG during the next meeting in Lavaux (CH). 5. The first newsletter shall be edited and disseminated in JULY 2010 with the help of ALL PARTNERS (for the elaboration of articles and the uploading of e-mail addresses to the mailing list). - Good policy practice DB functions and services - Functions, services and targets of MyVITOUR. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to discuss the last two points of the agenda (Good policy practice blog/database and MyVITOUR. Only few hints will be taken into account, as for example the necessity to (a) use a blog structure for the database on good policy practices, to (b) base it on a tag system, that should be connected to both the www.vitour.org site and the MyVITOUR forum, and (c) that MyVITOUR needs necessarily to be subdivided into 10 different chapters for the 10 different areas and languages. Further proposals for technical and organisational solutions regarding these two tools will be introduced to the CDP draft 2.0 which shall be send to all members of the PSG before the meeting in Lavaux (CH). Anyway, as the restructuring of the www.vitour.org website and the newsletter production (incl. the establishment of the mailing list) are absolute priority for June/July 2010 (for ALL PARTNERS), the work on the 2 tools will be done as a second step, namely during August/September for the good policy practice DB/blog, and October/November 2010 for MyVITOUR, in order to be operative at the lastest at the end of this year with all tools. The participants agreed that they will meet again in September in Boppard (D), for a new session of th the working group Communication and Dissemination, at the fringe of this 4 technical seminar, in order to bring ahead the work and agreements. Additionally they decided to propose to the Partner team to start to use – as an internal management tool – online workspaces for the VITOUR LANDSCAPE management, divided into different groups with different participants. This tool shall be managed by the 3 Project and Financial Managers, Stefan Moritz, Marco Foschini and Francesco Marchese, and with the technical support of Daniele Moggia. This workspace might be tested for a half year, until end of 2010, in order to check whether this might be useful for the project management. Finally, Mickael Poiroux made the participants also aware about the fact that on the “old” website, in the intranet section there are basic information already uploaded about the old 6 partner areas, regarding partially those items collected by the experts of the Technical Group during April-May this year (before and after the meeting in Pico), which could be used. Such an intranet function shall be safeguarded also on the new website, or at least become a part of the online workspace, for the technical group. The VITOUR LANDSCAPE project is part-financed by the EU - E.R.D.F. 2007-2013 – Objective 3 – Territorial Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV C