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PURPLE Secretary General Vincent O’Connell together with Treasurer, Paul Van der Sluys, were in attendance at the fourth partnership meeting of the ROBUST project held in Helsinki on May 20-22.

O'Connell delivered a presentation updating project partners on each of the five ROBUST "Communities of Practice" topic areas and current EU-level policy developments.

The meeting marked the halfway stage of this four-year project with PURPLE due to continue in its role of leading work on policy dimensions of rural-urban linkages. As part of that work PURPLE will be producing a set of topic papers and guidance materials as well as a suite of policy recommendations and an overall project manifesto.

Our colleagues and friends from the Three Countries Park within the Euregio Meuse-Rhine have extended an invitation to all interested parties to join them at the culmination event of the project Dear Landscape (2017-2019).

Many PURPLE members will already be familiar with the peri-urban Three Countries Park and will recall previous conversations we have had at PURPLE Working Group meetings about the sorts of urbanisation pressures faced there and the need for high quality recreational and multifunctional landscape areas such as those the park offers.

The Dear Landscape project focuses on improving understanding of what people appreciate in their everyday environment and sets out to bring details of this non-monetary value to the attention of policy makers and public administrations.

Further details of the project can be found here in German, French, Dutch and English.

Also attached is a formal invitation document

We are invited to register at: https://forms.gle/qfTQFqZUMVjzK8Eg9

The LIFE programme project Green4Grey (2013-2019) has been looking at how green and blue infrastructure can respond to the urbanisation of the Flemish and European landscape.

Led by the Flemish Land Agency (VLM), the successful application was submitted with a letter of support and commitment from PURPLE.

Details of the final project event have just been announced with a field visit and conference due to take place on September 25 and 26.

Attached is a Save a Date notice.  Further details will become available next month and will appear on the project website at: www.green4grey.be

The Horizon 2020 project ROBUST of which PURPLE is a partner holds an event entitled

Fostering the Circular Food Economy through Stronger Rural-Urban Linkages

in Brussels on the morning of Thursday April 11 2019 at the premises of PURPLE member region partner the Flemish Land Agency (VLM)

Details of the event and registration instructions can be found at: http://iclei-europe.org/iclei-events/breakfast-at-sustainabilitys/

The third PURPLE Theamtic Working Group meeting takes place in Brussels on Tuesday March 26 2019. The evemt will beled by the region of South Moravia and will address the subject of Peri-urban Transport. The meeting is the third in an ongoing series of wolrkshop-type events where specialists from PURPLE member regions are invited to come together and explore peri-urban dimensionsof given topics.

The session on peri-urban transport follows previous events on peri-urban regional planning which took place last September and an event focused on peri-urban agriculture which took place in late October.

For further details of these meetings and plans for future Thematic Workimg Groups please contact info@purple-eu.org or call 00447989973561

Preliminary details have been released of the 30th PURPLE General Assembly which wil take place in Potsdam on May 28 and 29 2019.

A formal Notice of Meeting and draft porgramme for the two day event has been shared with member regions and a registration form will shortly be issued Non-members interested in joining us in Potsdam are asked to contact info@purple-eu.org in the first instance.