Strategic partnership in Erasmus Forest Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategic partnership in Erasmus Forest

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

Maskuliński Forest District, as a project coordinator, wanted to provide participants in the education process (young people and adults studying in the School of Forestry, university students and trainees) with comparable European qualifications and applies for Erasmus + program for raising of the professional competence of VET’s staff. The project partner was Ruciane-Nida European Union Forest Schools and the Robin Pépinières in France and Forest Education Center in Lower Saxony in Germany.
The aim of the project was to include the forest trainers of the Maskulińskie Forest District and the teachers from Forestry School in Ruciane-Nida in vocational training to the European training centers by establishing and maintaining contact with one of the most active organizations acting in vocational education and training in forestry – Robin Pépinières and the Forest Education Center.
The project was designed to shape the appropriate competencies and attitudes of the informal instructors of the profession. The project participant works out a model of vocational training that will be implemented in the Forestry Technical School and the Rucian-Nida Vocational and Continuing Education Center, involving youth and adult education in the field of future employers’ needs and modern trends in forest management in the European Union. The aim is also to encourage challenges, develop their skills, broaden their horizons, expertise and knowledge, and spread that knowledge to the widest possible audience of people interested in and pursuing forestry professionals.
Participants in the project were professional foresters who carry out practical education as part of their duties, teachers from the Ruciane-Nida Forest Schools Team and instructors from the Robin Pépinières and Forest Education Center. We organized three stages of raising the competences, in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Eight people participated in each stage of the project. All stages are interconnected and carry out a general program based on the needs of our instructors. The activities include participation in thematically organized classes and presentations of didactic surfaces related to forest management, with particular emphasis on machine harvesting methods. The participants of the project worked up and made public their experience in according to the vocational specialization. Educational methods that can be implemented in Poland adapted and used in professional education.
The result of the project is the improvement of the competence of VET ‘s instructors, but above all the creation of vocational education programs that take into account the specificities of formal education and employers’ demands for the effects of work. Achieving this goal was possible only through the establishment of a strategic partnership between the Maskulińskie Forest District, the Ruciane-Nida Forest Schools Complex, Robin Pépinières and and the Forest Education Center. Participants gained knowledge of the functioning of a professional vocational training education center with pan-European contacts. Instructors connected personal contacts with a group of professional French and German trainers. The project also improved the linguistic competence of trainers involved in education.
International contacts and knowledge of work in another country gave the possibility to introduce European quality in forestry vocational education in the Maskulińskie Forest District and teachers from the Forestry Schools Team in Ruciane-Nida at European level. Thanks to the publicity gained from the experience, all the participant of vocational education in Polish forestry will benefit from the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 53625 Eur

Project Coordinator

Nadlesnictwo Maskuliskie z siedziba w Rucianem – Nidzie & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol Lesnych
• Niedersächsisches Forstliches Bildungszentrum
• ROBIN PEPINIERES EARL