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2nd International Workshop "Mountain Environmental Education in Alpine Protected Areas"

Date :
17/10/2012 to 18/10/2012
Keywords :
Austria Cooperation Environmental Education and Awareness Raising
Place :
BIOS-center, Mallnitz
Country :
Austria
Organisation :
ALPARC
Nationalpark Hohe Tauern
REEMA - Réseau Alpin d'Education à l'Environnement Montagnard

The second Alparc workshop on the topic "Mountain Environmental Education: how to reinforce the relation between young people and Alpine mountain?" will take place on 17th and 18th October 2012 in Mallnitz, in the Hohe Tauern National Park .

It is co-organised with The Park and with the REEMA (Alpine Network for Mountain Environmental Education), which already gathers the staff in charge of environmental education in the French Alpine protected areas.

Target public: Staff in charge of environmental education in the Alpine protected areas.
Limited number of participants: 30 persons max.
Language of the meeting: English

Programme content proposal:

  • 1 General session (presentations…): YOUTH and MOUNTAIN: how to reinforce the relation between young people and mountain? Which ideas, tools, international projects?
  • Parallel work sessions in small groups:

- Experiences of sponsoring, cooperations with external partners financing environmental education programs
- Education centres: experience of alpine protected areas with visitor centres (management, staff, costs, infrastructure, content and pedagogical material, impacts, selling products or not?)
- Educational values, alpine culture and mountain identity
- In option: Development of a common Alpine pedagogical tool (project)

  • Large discussion time for informal experiences exchanges
  • Guided visit of the BIOS visitor center
  • 1 visit on the field guided by the park: Lehrweg Seebachtal (educational trail)
  • Possibility to organise a guided visit of the Visitor center of the Park in Mittersill on 19th October

Contact:
ALPARC Education Working Group Coordination: marie.stoeckel@alparc.org +33 (0)4 79 26 55 02 or +33 (0)6 78 84 19 77

A detailled programme as well as a registration form will be published and sent before June 2012.

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