Green competencies: Europe safeguarding its natural heritage Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green competencies: Europe safeguarding its natural heritage

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

The project “Green competencies: Europe safeguarding its natural heritage” developed competency-based training that empowers the end-users with green skills and competencies about natural and cultural landscape preservation, identifying relevant concepts of “cultural landscape”. Building links between partners organization and relevant stakeholders involved in green heritage sustainability, the project contributed effectively to spread of sector-oriented VET the EU cultural heritage recognition and valorisation. In long term perspective, through creating new VET pathways on cultural landscape preservation, our project gave better prospects for VET educators, professionals and touristic tycoons. The project provided also creation a common EU working space for good exchange of knowledge between different EU partners organizations involved in VET about the value of local natural and cultural landscape heritage preservation by integrating awareness and understanding of natural heritage protection into national educational curricula. The consortium (7) was a mix of appropriate complementary institutions with the necessary profile, experiences and expertise to deliver all aspects of the project, coming from different fields of educations and trainings, including newcomer to this action: two foundations of VET profiles (PL), municipality (ES), vocational associations ( EE, FR), educational institution ( IT), priate educational green organisation ( MT). Common target group were VET professionals, teachers, trainers, mentors and local decision makers that need a professional growth to answer to new needs of labour market linked to preserve EU natural heritage. The project involved stakeholders of different profiles and backgrounds from each country to support project activities, to disseminate and to realize follow-up activities. The primary goal was to allow organisations to develop and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to operate at transnational level, shared and confronted ideas and methods, exchanged the best practices. The consortium delivered tangible and intangible results: – the development of entrepreneurial skills in planning cultural and environmental tourism, in the use of English language and ICT, in the efficient management of intercultural communication – creating materials such as poster, brochure, manifesto, flyer, Power Point Presentation of the best practice, Project Facebook Page, landscape catalogue maps of landscape cultural heritage, video-clips as the reportge of principal activities implemented during the project, – many local and international workshops about natural landscape and cultural heritage, – the exchange of good practices in VET about preservation, management and valorisation of the local cultural and natural heritage, Given its complex and comprehensive nature, our project was useful in developing the transversal key competences of: • Digital competencies improvement through the virtual maps creation. • Communication skills and competencies developing a new form of communication strategies on how to promote sustainable development and natural heritage preservation, in particular, we would stimulate trainees to know own landscape characteristic and point to valorise. • Interpersonal, intercultural, social and civic competencies promoting social cohesion and exchange between cultures through the creation of a networking with other national and international VET associations operating in different contexts. • Cultural expression improving awareness of European and national cultural landscape heritage. Impact: – increased EU cultural and natural heritage awareness – higher competencies about cultural landscape, national regulation and EU rules – increased knowledge of native culture – strong bonds with staff from partner organisations – digital skills development – English language skills development – experience of different teaching methods – social skills development – development of communication and intercultural skills (critical thinking, problem solving abilities, team working) The consortium organized 4 project meetings ( PL, IT, EE, FR) to exchange good practice and develop project activities and 2 short-staff trainings (MT, ES) with the combination of other local and international activities, such as: study visits, workshops, seminars, meetings, lectures what allowed to achieve project goals. Dissemination and evaluation activities were developed and were crucial to help to achieve project goals and sustainability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 67730 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Euro-Form & Country: PL

Project Partners

• LUETEB
• MITRA FRANCE
• GENISTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• Mittetulundusühing EURIKA
• CONSELL INSULAR DE MALLORCA
• Fundacja Integracji Spolecznej FIS