Hilsen fra Karin Helms

Dear colleagues, dear landscape architects,

The announcements from several heads of government in Europe these last days, regarding the COVID-19 and its incidences, lead us all, individually and collectively, to take measures to pay attention to avoid the spread of the Corona virus. We have to take care of our health first!

However, within your companies and many European landscape architecture universities/ schools, this will have a considerable economic and social impact. IFLA Europe, faced with this unprecedented health crisis, is at your side and will go on answering to all your demands and will be active during all the time we have to stay in our homes. Use the emailing service and our new website!

After this period, we will be active to help the profession to start again its business – be active to promote the profession at all levels: government and local level!

We would like to remind you that we are there for our profession for your well being in the profession.

Best regards and take care”

Karin Helms, IFLA Europe President

Karin Helms is Associate Professor, Landscape architect, Head of the international relationships at Ecole Nationale Supèrieure de Paysage Versailles. She is the founder of European Master: EMiLA. She received in 2013 the order of: „Chevalier des Palmes academiques” French Order of Chivalry for academic, cultural and education figures by the Ministry of Higher education for the modernisation of the curriculum at ENSP Versailles.

She studied Biology in Italy and later Landscape Architecture in Belgium and received her landscape architect Diploma by ENSP Versailles. She is currently PhD candidate by RMIT Europe Barcelona (part of RMIT Melbourne), a practice-based PhD, researching on proactive methods to act on large cultural landscapes in transformations together with local actors to imagine and design their future cultural landscapes. For this research she received a EU Marie Curie grant trough the ADAPT-r programme in 2015-2016.

She created her office „Karin Helms, Paysagiste Sarl” in 1993 and received a national prize for her work at Folleville, a rural village in Picardie from the French Ministry of nvironment. She is State Landscape Architect Adviser since 1999 and is active in different Associations for the promotion of the profession such as IFLA Europe, FFP, APCE.

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