GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnership "European volunteers in parks"

Eight partners in the network of EUROPARC worked together on the subject of European volunteers in parks in a so called "Learning Partnership", financed by the EU-programme GRUNDTVIG/Lifelong Learning Programme. The project run from August 2008 until July 2010.

(If you are interested in the EU-Grundtvig Multilateral Project "Volunteer Management in European Parks" (2010-13) please klick here.)

The partners are:

• Association of Lithuanian State Parks and Reserves
• Environment Agency of Iceland
• EUROPARC Atlantic Isles
  
• EUROPARC Germany
  
• EUROPARC Spain
  
• Federparchi - EUROPARC Italy
  
• Nature Protection Board, Latvia
  
• Rodna Mountains National Park Administration, Romania 

The common activities mainly consist of international workshops for volunteer coordinators in parks and the international exchange of volunteers in parks for short term volunteering.

Current activities
Short term volunteering
Project documentation

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What are our goals?

• to promote the culture of active citizenship (volunteering in parks as active and creative means of being citizen)
  
• to spread the importance of nature/biodiversity conservation as well as of sustainable development and hereby raise the parks’ profile locally and nationally
  
• to create good surrounding conditions for volunteers in parks (support, recognition)
  
• to improve the volunteer management efficiency
  
• to establish a network of organisations involved in volunteering in parks as well as of community projects associated with parks; this facilitates knowledge and experience acquisition, capacity building (shared learning) and gaining support
  
• to bring recognition forward that parks, environmental NGOs etc. across Europe which already offer informal life long learning through volunteering (i.e. communication, inter-personal skills, management and project organisation skills), although not yet recognised as a mechanism for life long learning
  
• to broaden the horizons of the individual participants in educational and cultural terms and to stimulate creativity

Further information:
EUROPARC Germany, Anne Schierenberg
Tel. +49/(0)30/2887882-15, E-Mail: anne.schierenberg@europarc-deutschland.de