School of Protected Areas. Improving the training of protected area professionals

Empleaverde+ program

The protected land area in Spain rises to 36.7% and 12.3% of the marine area, which will reach 21% once the latest proposal for Natura 2000 sites sent to the European Commission is formally included. It is the European country that contributes the most to the Natura Network (27.4% of the country) and the one with the most biosphere reserves in the world. Managing this territory requires professionals with up-to-date training who can face the management challenges that all this poses.

In this context, the project aims to lay the foundations for a school of lifelong learning that will support the training, updating and personal development of professionals who carry out their activity, or may develop it, in protected areas and their environment. This necessary training, in turn, results in greater effectiveness in all environmentally and socially positive facets of protected areas.

Project

Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

2025

End date:

2027

Project web page:

https://fungobe.org/escuela_de_areasprotegidas/

Objectives

The general objective of the project is to improve the skills of professionals in protected areas and the groups that carry out activities in their areas of influence, favouring the ecological transition.

This general objective is specified in two specific objectives:

To improve the skills of active professionals (professional retraining) in the areas considered key to facing the new challenges of management in protected areas: Connectivity and ecological restoration, Planning and management of marine protected areas. Climate change adaptation, Sustainable tourism, Communication for the ecological transition, Diversification of forms of governance.
Promote the incorporation of new professionals trained in the conservation and management of protected areas. The training proposed by the project is an opportunity, as it offers a new field of specialization with high added value that takes advantage of a real opportunity for growth.

Actions

This project comprises 14 distance training actions and two social innovation actions, around seven thematic cores, which refer to clearly priority areas of work in protected areas, established by the EUROPARC-Spain 2030 Programme:

Connectivity and ecological restoration
Protection of marine spaces
Efficiency in management. Incorporation of young professionals
Response of protected areas to climate change.
Sustainable tourism in protected areas
Communication of the social benefits of conservation/ecological transition in PA.
Diversification of protected area governance models.

School of Protected Areas. Improving the training of protected area professionals

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