European Wetlands Ambassadors Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Wetlands Ambassadors

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Environment and climate change; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

Project “European wetland ambassadors” undertakes two European challenges:
– to provide quality training and to offer very ambitious and sustainable professional perspectives to people currently excluded from labour market and who are integrated through work economic activities (long-term unemployed people, young adults excluded from school system, low-skilled seniors);
– to protect and promote natural wetlands and European rivers. This objective is supported by the application of the Water Framework Directive, by which European authorities and Member States must (1) manage, pollution control and prevent natural hazards, as well as (2) inform the public.

To meet all these challenges, project partners intend to establish and test a new set of competences, in addition to competences and training already acquired within social insertion organisations acting within the field of sustainable development. Within already existing training topics undertaken by active social insertion organisation on wetland development, this framework of competences fosters the new job “European wetland ambassadors” while adding new themes such as environmental mediation, knowledge about wetlands, ecological engineering.

The European cooperation within the project will be of important added-value compared to the existing experiences because it will :
– provide a common response to a dual common European challenge (wetland quality and long-term unemployment);
– give access to a diversity of European practices and situations;
– enhance recognition of this new profession within a common framework, fostering equivalences and mobilities.

The project will be supported by a partnership of 7 organisations from 6 different countries (Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain). Each of them have complementary skills and statutes: representative of public decision makers, local authorities in charge of wetlands and rivers development and who are potential recruiters of “wetland ambassadors”; representatives of training organisations, who will contribute to give the profession specific reference and validation; and finally representatives of social integration organisations which will enable to test, to validate and to give credence to the project intellectual outputs and results.
Different complementary activities will give national and European validation and recognition to the new Core Competency Reference Guide :
– development of reation of a job reference system, with a detailed list of associated skills, based on a detailed report of existing practices, needs, contexts, issues and references at European level;
– production and validation of a training framework and training content associated with this job reference system,
– Production and validation of the qualification and skills validation framework and system;
– test of training activities, during a transnational workshop for trainers and 6 local training sessions for integration groups. All in all, 22 trainers and 100 people in employment integration process will benefit from these innovative training techniques tailored for public in insertion with specific needs;
– communication actions and dissemination of results for recognition of the conducted work and the emergence of this new job at European level and at the 6 partner countries level.

In the end, project expected impacts will be at different levels :
The target groups will benefit from stronger professional integration thanks to upgrade of their training and profiles, to easier access to higher level of training courses such as ” management of natural areas ” or “environmental education”.
European economic integration organisations will offer higher expectation and quality to support their beneficiaries.
European local authorities will benefit from improved level of services related to wetland and river maintenance and development that they have to manage.

Project Website

http://amhe-project.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 329029 Eur

Project Coordinator

Communauté de communes du Sud-Corse & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Etudes Et Chantiers Corsica
• Ecological Association Krka Knin
• INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE
• DIMOS ALIMOU-MUNICIPALITY OF ALIMOS
• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• Irecoop Toscana