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June 2009 Jedlnia (Poland)June 2009 Jedlnia (Poland)

- Educational matters and exchange activities –

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Main Activities and projects since Congress in Freising

• Forestry Workcamp• new: „fieldtrip project“

• Contact to IFSA• PAWS• European Network of Waldpädagogik

• EFORWOOD

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Cooperation project International Forestry Workcamp

• 2005 decision taken in Freising to create a permanent exchange facility

• 2006 UEF became a cooperation-partner of the yearly held Workcampfor forest students in Germany

• Since 2007 the workcamp took place yearly supported by UEF in the frame of the cooperation agreement

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Participant from 14 countries:

2007 2008 2009Australia XBelgium X XCanada XDenmark XFrance XGreece XHungaria X XIreland X XMacedonia XPoland X X XPortugal X X XSerbia XSpain X XSouth Korea X X X

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„fieldtrip project“

5 day METO fieldtrip

with forest students to

Germany in April 2008

and April 2009:

                                             

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The idea• Creating a (cheap) permanent fieldtrip offer for foresters and

students with 2 or 3 fieldtrips every year for groups with 15 persons, each fieldtrip 4-5 days, main theme: silviculture and climate change in forests (storm damages and windmills in the forests)

• cooperation between

(personal and organisation)

and (financial support)

and (as an official supporter with international contacts )

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State of the art / first results

• Positive signs in 2008 from state forest and from the foundation

• personal changes within the foundation andreducing of the supported programmes, because of the worldwide finance crisisin 2009

• Unfortunately there will definitely no financial support!

• If the project can run without that, is open at the moment.

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Contacts to IFSA

• Existing contacts to IFSA for years, but no close and concrete cooperation

• May 2007: UEF participation in IFSA Congress (Europe)

in Nancy

• August 2008: UEF participation in 36th International Forest Students` Symposium (IFSS) in Sofia

• Fruitful discussion about IFSA membership of UEF youth oganizations

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PAWS project

• EU-funded project, stimulating forester´s participation in nature interpretation

• UEF was represented in the advisory group• end of the project in March 2007• All results can be downloaded in Internet and used

for free (concept and tour planning tool for guides in different languages) -> www.paws.daa-bbo.de/products.php

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European Network of Waldpädagogik

• The project is dealing with nature interpretation, too.

• UEF supported the project at the beginning by naming contact persons as members of the network, who are engaged in nature-interpretation

• The project devoloped further on expert level

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EFORWOOD project

• four-year integrated project, funded under the EU “Global change and ecosystems“ research activity of the Sixth Framework Programme

• The aim of the project is to provide methodologies and tools that will, for the first time, integrate Sustainability Impact Assessment of the whole European Forestry-Wood Chain (FWC), by quantifying performance of FWC, using indicators for all three pillars of sustainability; environmental, economic and societal.

• September 2006: UEF participation in the first stakeholder meeting in Kerkrade (Netherlands)

• Meanwhile the project is devoloping increasingly on expert level.

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Thank you very much for your attention!