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Methodology of Interpretation of European Nature Heritage in Tourism

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-CZ01-KA203-078407
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for higher education Funder Contribution: 251,487 EUR

Methodology of Interpretation of European Nature Heritage in Tourism

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The main objectives of the project are the development of strategic partnership among universities, support of internationalization of the educational process, and the teacher´s mobility. The other goal is to support innovation and modernization of the educational process. Finally, it is an effort to contribute to the sustainable development of society, particularly in the field of nature protection threatened by the fast development of tourism. The project will also support inclusion since it will bring guidelines on how to prepare and implement barrier-free nature heritage interpretation. The project outputs will be a new complex modern didactic material in a digital form:E-book: an overview of theories in the interpretation of nature heritage, examples of good practice, case studies.Guidelines: designed and adjusted to professionals from the industry, they will spread awareness of the topic in the industry, support further live-long professional education, transfer foreign experience to experts.Video + Digital presentations: examples of nature heritage interpretation. Podcasts: timeless ideas from interesting personalities from the topic The need of such a project is based on the survey, which showed a gap in university syllabi and study materials. Despite the growing interest of visitors in nature, the professional literature doesn´t cover this topic, there is no comprehensive modern methodology of nature heritage interpretation, nor interpretation planning. The content of the project also reflects the mission and the new political framework for tourism in Europe. The European Travel Commission aims to develop new ways how to attract visitors to European nature heritage. The upgrade of nature heritage interpretation will increase awareness of nature heritage values, initiate responsible behaviour of visitors and nature heritage protection. The project will be implemented in partnership of 8 universities representing different European regions, capital and regional cities, and countries with diverse nature heritage and its potential.The distribution of tasks is well balanced among all partner universities. Each university will deal with its subtopic as follows:VSE Praha, Czech Republic: small-scale protected areas, interpretation through nature heritage trails, treetop walkways;Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania: UNESCO locations, nature watching;University of Applied Sciences-Fachhochschule Burgenland, Austria: large-scale protected areas, interpretation centers in national parks;Universidad Europea, Spain: caves, interpretation in extreme nature areas, guiding; Fachhochschule des Mittelstands, Germany: cultural landscape, palace gardens, ZOOs and botanic gardens, gamification;Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland: geoparks, coastal landscape, inanimate nature, modern interpretation media; Universidade do Porto, Portugal: agricultural landscape, vineyards, wine routes, interpretation through experience; Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania: hydrology, balneological nature resources, printed materials for interpretation.The project has a detailed action plan. The main activities of the project are:Compilations of materials and their didactic elaboration, collection of examples of good practice, elaboration of case studies, cooperation with the industry. Transnational project meetings for coordination of project implementation and evaluation, and as a platform for networking, for sharing the experience, and support of the development of internationalization in university activities. Short-term joint staff training events with training activities supporting the development and improvement of pedagogical skills, especially in the use of new digital materials and tools and their implementation in the teaching process. Dissemination activities: organization of an international conference, web pages, articles, papers, lectures at conferences outside the project, etc.Project management: communication with partners, monitoring, budget monitoring, evaluation. The created materials will help to build awareness of the importance of quality nature heritage interpretation and its significant role in the protection of nature values. The main group benefiting from the project results are students and teachers of 8 partner universities. They will benefit particularly in the field of the educational process - its innovation, internationalization, and digitalization.The outcomes of the project will be available also to other schools.Experts from the industry and other relevant stakeholders will also benefit from the compiled and published materials (Guidelines).The project outputs will be published in full on open webpages all partner universities and will be freely accessible. They will be technically user-friendly. They will be also downloaded into the Platform for Dissemination of Results of Erasmus + Programme.Long-term utilization of project outputs is expected.

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