AGRONATUR PROJECT

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AGRONATUR PROJECT

• Work developed by the partner ADESPER

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PARTICIPATION IN THETRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS

• ADESPER has participated in all the Transnational
  Meetings organised until the moment.

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INFORMATION ANDSENSITIZATION ACTIONS

• During the two first phases of the project, the
  entity ADESPER has organised several seminars,
  workshops, work meetings and conferences, in
  order to disseminate the project in the provinces
  of León and Zamora.

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INFORMATION AND SENSITIZATION ACTIONS

• The main previous project chosen by ADESPER to
  disseminate its main results was INNATURE
  project.
• During the seminars, we talked about AGRONATUR
  PROJECT, about INNATURE project and briefly about
  ACTIVE TOURISM project.

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INFORMATION AND SENSITIZATION ACTIONS

• In total, 17 Seminars were organised during the
  two first phases of the project, and in all of
  them, the participants filled in participation
  forms and questionnaires.
• In total, 188 people attended the seminars, being
  the average number of participants per seminar
  around 11.

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INFORMATION AND SENSITIZATION ACTIONS
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INFORMATION AND SENSITIZATION ACTIONS
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INFORMATION AND SENSITIZATION ACTIONS
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PUPILS DATABASE FOR THE PILOT COURSE

• Data included in the database

• Telephone
• Studies
• Profession / Labour situation
• Date of the seminar in which the pupil has
  participated
• Place of the seminar in which the pupil has
  participated

• Name
• Birthday
• Age
• Gender
• Identification number
• Address
• Place

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PUPILS DATABASE FOR THE PILOT COURSE

• The current database of possible trainees is
  available in English and Spanish and in printed
  and digital format.
• The place where the pilot course will be
  organised has not been decided yet, and thus, the
  final pupils of this pilot course will be also
  decided afterwards, not only taking into account
  the information of this database.

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EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES WITH OTHER ENTITIES AND
ORGANISATIONS

• IRMA SL has been the promoter of the INNATURE
  project and has participated in the ACTIVE
  TOURISM project.
• Both IRMA SL and ADESPER are involved in another
  Leonardo da Vinci project related to the thematic
  subjects of the AGRONATUR project.
• Thus, ADESPER has found very useful to exchange
  experiences about the activities to be carried
  out within the AGRONATUR project, with the entity
  IRMA SL.
• IRMA SL has decided to collaborate with the
  project by signing a collaboration agreement with
  ADESPER.

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CONTACTS AND ADHESION TO THE PROJECT OF OTHER
LOCAL, NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN ENTITIES

• Many entities have been contacted by e-mail in
  order to present the project to them and in other
  to achieve their collaboration within the
  project
• Councils in the provinces of León, Zamora,
  Ourense
• Regional councils of Ávila, Zamora, Salamanca,
  Teruel
• Associations of municipalities in Segovia
• Local Action Groups in León, Valladolid, Zamora
• Environmental and rural development department
  of the government of Asturias
• Regional Agro-feeding Research and Development
  Service of Asturias
• Local Energy Agencies in Asturias, Burgos,
• Foundation of the Natural Heritage of Castilla y
  León
• Government of La Rioja

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COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS

• During the two first phases of the projects 6
  Collaboration Agreements has been signed between
  ADESPER and different entities related to the
  project thematic fields
• IRMA SL Instituto de Restauración y Medio
  Ambiente IRMA SL is a SME dedicated to training
  activities and management of projects related to
  rural development, natural heritage protection
  and sustainable exploitation of natural
  resources.
• AGROMONTANA AGROMONTANA is a non-profit
  association located in León, Spain. Its main
  activities are related to the employment
  promotion in the rural areas (specially for rural
  women), the promotion of sustainable development
  and the promotion of natural resources of every
  region, taking specially into account the
  development of the organic agriculture and the
  sustainable development.

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COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS

• ENERNALON The Local Energy Agency of Nalón is a
  non-profit foundation that works in the province
  of Asturias. Its main aim is the promotion of the
  renewable energies, the energy saving and
  efficiency.
• DIPUTACIÓN DE ÁVILA The Regional Council of
  Ávila, among other general aims, intends to
  include the natural and cultural heritage of the
  region in socio-economical activities, by
  developing cultural routes, natural paths, etc.,
  which must be properly signposted to avoid
  further damage.

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COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS

• FUNDACIÓN COMARCAL TIERRA DE CALDELAS It is a
  Territorial Foundation created to manage the
  cooperation between the public and private
  sectors, acting as a Territorial Action Group.
  Its main aim is the dinamization of the
  territorial resources and the sustainable and
  integrated development of its action area.
• AYUNTAMIENTO DE BENAVENTE The Council of
  Benavente is a local public entity in the region
  of Zamora. Benavente is one of the engines of the
  provincial and regional development and among
  other aims, it intends to act for the promotion
  of the local resources and the preservation of
  the natural areas of interest.

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TRAINING POSSIBILITIES

• In the province of León, Vocational Training
  comes in the following forms
• State-regulated or Initial Vocational Training.
• The Medium-level training cycle.
• The Higher-level training cycle.
• Workplace training (ftc).
• Programmes of Professional Initial Qualification.
• Occupational Vocational Training.
• Continuing Vocational Training.

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TRAINING POSSIBILITIES

• As it can be deduced by the partial results of
  the research, very few courses related to the
  main subjects that the project AGRONATUR intends
  to disseminate, are available.
• Thus, the implementation of the new training
  itineraries will be very useful for these areas.

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TRANSLATIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

• Besides preparing the information about the
  current training possibilities and translating
  the first brochure of the project to Spanish,
  these are other tasks developed by ADESPER
• ADESPER has contributed to the elaboration of the
  summaries about the main subjects that the
  project AGRONATUR intends to disseminate
  Innature project and Active Tourism project.
• ADESPER has also translated the Innature summary
  to Spanish.

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TRANSLATIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

• ADESPER has updated the information of the module
  6, within the Innature handbook.
• On the other hand, and also according to the
  specifications of the promoter for all the
  partners, ADESPER has chosen the subject of the
  Innature project for the dissemination actions
  and the development of the Pilot course.

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INFORMATIVE BROCHUREOF THE PROJECT

• As foreseen, ADESPER has edited the first
  brochure of the project, in English and Spanish.
• In our case, the brochure is available in printed
  and pdf format.

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INFORMATIVE BROCHURE OF THE PROJECT
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UTILIZATION OF THE NTIC TO DISSEMINATE THE PROJECT

• The website of ADESPER is undergoing a big
  transformation and updating process.
• We decided to include the information regarding
  the project AGRONATUR within the website of
  another project in which ADESPER is also involved
  as partner The project NATURANET and the
  website www.natura2000net.eu.
• As soon as the website of the project AGRONATUR
  will be available, a link to this page will be
  also included in the AGRONATUR section of the
  NATURANET website.

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UTILIZATION OF THE NTIC TO DISSEMINATE THE PROJECT
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UTILIZATION OF THE NTIC TO DISSEMINATE THE PROJECT

• On the other hand, many entities have been
  contacted by e-mail in order to present the
  project to them and in other to achieve their
  collaboration, as already explained.
• The e-mail will be also used to inform the
  collaborators of the project about the progress
  and activities that are being developed in the
  different phases.

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CONTACT WITH SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

• During these two first phases of the project,
  ADESPER has contacted the local magazine Bierzo
  7, and has sent an article on Nature
  Interpretation and AGRONATUR project to be
  published. The article was published on August
  2008 and it is available in printed and digital
  format.

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PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS ORGANISED BY OTHER
ENTITIES, RELATED TO THE PROJECT THEMATIC

• IV Event on the Conservation of Forests and
  Monumental Trees of the Bierzo region
  (Villafranca del Bierzo, 29th February-1st March
  2008), organized by the Association for the trees
  defence A Morteira?, in collaboration with the
  General Foundation of the University of León, the
  enterprise FGULEN and the Territorial Council of
  the Bierzo region.

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PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS ORGANISED BY OTHER
ENTITIES, RELATED TO THE PROJECT THEMATIC

• III Meeting on Forest World Day (Natura Network
  2000) (Ponferrada, 13th March 2008), organized by
  the Environment Department of the Ponferrada
  Council, with the collaboration of the University
  of León and financed by the Biodiversity
  Foundation.

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PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS ORGANISED BY OTHER
ENTITIES, RELATED TO THE PROJECT THEMATIC

• I International Event on Chestnuts (San Cibrao
  das Viñas, Ourense, 22-23-24th May 2008),
  organized by the Rural Realm Department of the
  Regional Council of Galicia.

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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!!