IFLA Education Recognition and Accreditation Working GrouP

Establishing a system for global recognition of landscape architecture programmes is seen as one of IFLA’s crucial long-term member services, and it is especially for those countries that do not yet have a national system of landscape programme validation. Such a mechanism can make the movement of graduates easier, especially if this occurs across IFLA Regions. Anyhow, IFLA does not aim to impose a global system of landscape architecture education but to appreciate and value regional differences in terms of culture, history, and landscapes.

For the purpose of developing, assessing, implementing, and later updating such a recognition system, in 2016, the Education Recognition and Accreditation Working Group was established and mandated first to develop policies and procedures for Programme Recognition and then consider Programme Accreditation -I.e., a recognition in which the assessment of education programmes outcomes is included alongside the curriculum delivery- as a global quality system for landscape architecture education.