Most of the material available as download on this page is in English.

Only the translation of the final project brochure to the different languages is available here. In order to get the questionnaires and brochures from the different countries, click on the flags in the left menu and follow the links to the national competition pages.

There is no layoutet English version of the questionnaire used in the competitions in the five countries. Although the questionnaires content coincides to a certain degree in the five countries, there are also significant differences.

The final brochure of the project is available here in English, German, French, Spanish, Hungarian and Slovak, includin:

• a foreword from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the CBD
• a detailed description of all nine national Capitals of Biodiversity from the 2010 and 2011 competitions
• 30 best-practice projects from the five competition countries.
• some background information about the project

European_Capitals_ENG.pdf English version

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	CoB_deutsch.pdf	2.8 M
	CoB_francaise.pdf	2.9 M
	CoB_espanol.pdf	2.9 M
	CoB_hungarian.pdf	2.2 M
	CoB_slovak.pdf	2.8 M

Flyer_Capitals-of-Biodiversity_small.pdf The flyer edited in the beginning of the project (2009) outlining the aims and strategies of the project.

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Within the project, training workshops on action for local biodiversity will be implemented in the five competition countries.

The concepts for these workshops are available below (English). For workshop material (and documentations) in one of the languages of the competition countries, please go to the national competition pages (click flag on the left).

	Background_Legal_framework.pdf Background information: Legal framework for biodiversity protection
	Module-1_Introduction.pdf Workshop Module 1: Introduction to biodiversity
	Module-2_Municipal_planning.pdf Workshop Module 2: Biodiversity in municipal planning
	Module-3_Climate_change.pdf Workshop Module 3: Climate change and biodiversity
	Module-4_Communication.pdf Workshop Module 4: Communicating biodiversity
	Module-5_Fundraising.pdf Workshop Module 5: Fundraising for biodiversity

These undicators are used in the monitoring chapters of the questionnaires. Please go to the national competition pages (click flag on the left) to find them translated to the respective languages and to know, which of the indicators are used in the questionnaires of the competition countries.

	Indicators_on_urban_biodiversity_-_LIST_-_European_Capitals_of_Biodiversity.pdf List of indicators which are used in the questionnaires of the competitions.	63 K
	Indicators_for_urban_biodiversity_-_GUIDELINES_-_European_Capitals_of_Biodiversity.pdf Guidelines to the indicators	116 K