GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnership "European volunteers in parks"

Eight partners in the network of EUROPARC work 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 runs from August 2008 until July 2010.

 

The partners are:

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

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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

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