Increasing education opportunities on sustainable development for protected area managers in Romania

The  overall goal is to develop, implement and promote innovative mechanisms/tools and approaches to increase information and knowledge transfer to protected area professionals on nature conservation management and its importance and integration into sustainable development processes.

Objective 1

• to improve the level of understanding of protected area professionals on the role of protected areas, including Natura 2000 sites, in sustainable development by combining on-line lessons with face-to-face sessions organised according to the national occupational standards developed by ProPark for the “Protected Areas Specialist” occupation.

Activities             

• Adapt the curricula and programme for the Protected Area Specialist occupation to allow for a combination of on-line lessons and face-to-face sessions
• Develop full training materials on 8 topics
• Develop materials for 14  on-line lessons
• Organise and provide training sessions
• Improve on-line training materials

Objective 2

• to increase the capacity of ProPark to offer innovative and alternative learning and competence evaluation tools for PA professionals using modern electronic information systems

Activities

• Organise Train of Trainer session for on-line lessons
• Develop the design for the on-line materials and the evaluation system for the on-line lessons
• Develop and maintain the web platform for the on-line lessons

The project is in partnership with EUROPARC Federation and its funded by German Federal Foundation Environment with 102.758 euro, the partners contribution is  106.627 euro.