The project aims to qualify participants for professional development as nature guides and interpreters, specifically for the interpretation of natural heritage in geoparks and thus promote employability linked to Spanish geoparks.

The theme of the project is Sustainable Tourism.

The 1st edition has shown a wide participation and the need to promote employability in geoparks. Therefore, this new project consists of training activities in Unesco Global Geoparks in Spain. It is proposed to carry out these courses for the unemployed, mainly for women and young people, seeking their qualification for the performance of the functions of guides and interpreters of natural heritage in geoparks, as a tool or measure to strengthen the local business fabric. Geoparks tend to be areas where depopulation and the resulting lack of business networks are on the rise. Therefore, these preserved territories sponsored by Unesco are a place where the opportunity arises to create a battery of training actions aimed at entrepreneurship and professional training around the natural heritage (geological and biological) and its interaction with human beings. For this purpose, Natures proposes a training action linked to geotourism in geoparks where all the aspects by which geoparks are defined are taken into account: geology, sustainability-responsibility and human beings. The course will consist of an on-line part through an e-learning platform (50 hours) and a face-to-face part specific to each geopark (30 hours), consisting of 5 days including visits to the main geosites and places of geological interest in the geoparks.

The percentage of participation of women in the project will be 35%, while the percentage of participation of other priority groups (sum of the rest of the groups except women) will be 40%.

At least 10% of those targeted will obtain employment.