In August, the JAGUAR Project (Sustainable futures for cultural landscapes of JApan and Germany - biodiversity and ecosystem services as Unifying concepts for the management of Agricultural Regions) of Justus-Liebig University (Gießen) in collaboration with the Science Council of Japan (Subcommittee for Nature Conservation and Restoration), Fukui Prefecture, DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service), the German Embassy in Japan, and DWIH Tokyo (Deutsches Wissenschafts- und Innovationshaus Tokyo), sponsored a Satoyama Symposium and Workshop that brought together researchers from Germany and Japan.