NATURE EXCHANGE-  A Leonardo project for trainers in the field of nature management.

Bulgaria	Iceland	Latvia
28th May - 05th June 2009	08th - 15th June 2009	25th May - 02 June 2009
Slovakia	Slovenia	Germany
Krajina: 31st May - 07th June 2009 Ipel Union: 28Aug - 5 Sept 2009	11th - 18th July 2009	24th - 30th July 2009
Poland	Norway
14 - 22 June 2009	3 - 11 May 2009

 

Innovation in Cultural Heritage Interpretation.
A Leonardo project for trainers in the field of Heritage Management

Iceland		Bulgaria		Slovakia
		Latvia

Please remember that the dates might change a little according to the availibility of flights.

Slovakia      7th -15th April.                  Full

Bulgaria      10th - 17th April.               Full

Latvia           06th -13th June                3  places available

Iceland         22nd - 29th June.             3 places available

Dates may change a day either way to allow us to get the best flights available.  ARCH are looking at other travel options too, for example by train and ferry, these options may add extra travel time at either end of the programme.

 

Latvia, State Forest Service:    25th May - 02 June.  Full

Norway,  Evanstaad.  3rd May - 8th May  Full

Bulgaria, Stara Planina:  28th May - 05th June.   Full

Slovakia, Krajina:  31st May - 07th June. Full

Iceland, Skalanes:    08th June - 15th June. Full

Poland, EUCC Society for the Coast:   14th July- 22nd July.  1 place available

Slovenia, Vitra Centre for Sustainable Development:  11th July - 18th July. 1 place available

Germany, DVL: 24th July - 30th July.    7 places available

Slovakia,  Ipel Union:   28th August - 06th September.  Full

 

 

 

Scotland 20.7. – 26. 7. 2008

 

 

Our journey to Scotland wasn't very long.

When we came to Inveraray Youth Hostel early in the morning (around 00.30), there were groups from Slovakia, England, Scotland and Greece already waiting for us.

 

Through the week we were working at workshops in Auchindrain museum. We had really good time there and ...   more »

Eagerly awaited report from the Renewables Group that went to Germany.

This is a PDF file. Click on the attachment link below

 

A Combined Report in low resolution PDF is attached

Thanks to EUCC-Poland for hosting our visit, in particular Pawel Terefenko and Rafal Benedyczak for giving up a week of their time to show us around so many fantastic places. They worked tirelessly and with great humour to make our trip the success it was. They looked after us really well and their organisational skills were very impressive to keep the team on time , well fed and fully informed! Pawels translations were invaluable and his knowledge of Polish history greatly added to our understanding of issues that surround land use in Poland. We were very lucky to have such good guides and it was great to get to know them.

Click on the attachment link below to read our report

 

Click on the attachment link to play this 24 min audio file (MP3)

     

Annie MacSween tells Petur Sigurdsson that he should come back to Lewis as her slave - to make up for all those Gaels hauled off by Vikings a thousand years ago. He's not keen....

Dear Bernd, First up can I just say that this was a fantastic trip and was definitely very well organised. So thank you very much. You will guess from this that I made it back safely, if a little tired, but I digress. About the trip. The accommodation in Meuchlein was adequate and suitably located for the subsequent visits. Habsberg was just as well located, but provided exceptional accommodation and surroundings. As for the visits, all were well chosen and had merits. I would definitely recommend    more »

It is easy to become entrenched in certain ways of approaching things, or of doing things. It has been very enlightening to travel to another country and to see how things are approached and carried out in another culture. This Nature Exchange trip has provided me with much food for thought, and I have spent much time ruminating since my return, pondering the comparisons between our two countries’ approach to conservation, and to our relationship with the natural world.   more »

A joint report from Peter Holden, Senior Ranger / Naturalist at Mar Lodge Estate, National Trust for Scotland. Shaila Rao, Ecologist, Mar Lodge Estate, National Trust for Scotland, Andrew Warwick, Ranger, Ben Lawers, National Trust for Scotland, Stephanie Walker, Royal Botanics Edinburgh, Sandra Hutchinson, Ranger, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Laura Whyte, Biodiversity Officer, North Lanarkshire Council, Andrew Jarrott, Forestry Commission Scotland, Hamilton.
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