Other Cooperation
The state of Brandenburg adopted ‘Development Policy Guidelines’ back in 2012. In the ‘Internationalisation Strategy’ adopted in 2014, the state government formulated its objectives for more intensive international cooperation in three fields of action:
- Concentrating the state's external contacts,
- Strengthening Brandenburg's ability to act in international working contexts,
- Making Brandenburg more attractive internationally.
In this context, co-operation with countries outside the European Union has also developed in the environmental and agricultural sectors.
In recent years, the cooperation relations of the Brandenburg Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment have focussed on priority regions. Specific projects are implemented together with other stakeholders.
For example, there has been a partnership between Banhine National Park (Gaza province) and the Lower Oder Valley National Park (state of Brandenburg) since 2015. This cooperation focuses on exchanges in the field of biodiversity conservation.
In 2017, the State Office for the Environment and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar agreed on further cooperation. The subject of this agreement is the cooperation between the UNESCO biosphere reserves Spreewald, Flusslandschaft Elbe and Schorfheide-Chorin (Brandenburg) and the UNESCO biosphere reserve lndawgyi Lake (Myanmar).
There have also been contacts with the Russian Federation, in particular with Kaliningrad and the Moscow region, which should also be intensified on a project-related basis in the field of agriculture under the leadership of the State Chancellery and the Brandenburg Ministry of Finance and Europe (MdFE). These contacts are not currently being pursued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Consumer Protection (MLEUV).
Protected areas along the Elbe from the Czech Republic and Germany signed a memorandum in 2020 to establish the cross-border network ‘ELBE Parks’. Czech and German protected areas want to cooperate more closely in this network and exchange information. In particular, cross-border cooperation will focus on topics such as the ecological importance of river ecosystems, wetlands and river landscapes as well as the preservation of biological and geological diversity on the Elbe. The Elbe-Brandenburg River Landscape Biosphere Reserve is active in the network on behalf of the state of Brandenburg.
The state of Brandenburg adopted ‘Development Policy Guidelines’ back in 2012. In the ‘Internationalisation Strategy’ adopted in 2014, the state government formulated its objectives for more intensive international cooperation in three fields of action:
- Concentrating the state's external contacts,
- Strengthening Brandenburg's ability to act in international working contexts,
- Making Brandenburg more attractive internationally.
In this context, co-operation with countries outside the European Union has also developed in the environmental and agricultural sectors.
In recent years, the cooperation relations of the Brandenburg Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment have focussed on priority regions. Specific projects are implemented together with other stakeholders.
For example, there has been a partnership between Banhine National Park (Gaza province) and the Lower Oder Valley National Park (state of Brandenburg) since 2015. This cooperation focuses on exchanges in the field of biodiversity conservation.
In 2017, the State Office for the Environment and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar agreed on further cooperation. The subject of this agreement is the cooperation between the UNESCO biosphere reserves Spreewald, Flusslandschaft Elbe and Schorfheide-Chorin (Brandenburg) and the UNESCO biosphere reserve lndawgyi Lake (Myanmar).
There have also been contacts with the Russian Federation, in particular with Kaliningrad and the Moscow region, which should also be intensified on a project-related basis in the field of agriculture under the leadership of the State Chancellery and the Brandenburg Ministry of Finance and Europe (MdFE). These contacts are not currently being pursued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Consumer Protection (MLEUV).
Protected areas along the Elbe from the Czech Republic and Germany signed a memorandum in 2020 to establish the cross-border network ‘ELBE Parks’. Czech and German protected areas want to cooperate more closely in this network and exchange information. In particular, cross-border cooperation will focus on topics such as the ecological importance of river ecosystems, wetlands and river landscapes as well as the preservation of biological and geological diversity on the Elbe. The Elbe-Brandenburg River Landscape Biosphere Reserve is active in the network on behalf of the state of Brandenburg.