What is Restoration Ecology?

Restoration Ecology addresses the question how to repair various human-disturbed sites. It provides a scientific basis for practical ecological restoration and promotes, among others, the use of spontaneous or reasonably managed succession in the greatest possible extent without using traditional methods of technical reclamation.

Restoration Ecology Group

"Promotion of spontaneous or reasonably
controlled succession in order to restore disturbed sites"

PROJECT SUMMARY

TRAINER OVERALL OBJECTIVE is to innovate towards achieving a shared model for vocational training needs in Ecological Restoration (ER) based on a common analysis of knowledge production and use in the participating countries and a final joint definition of recommendations. Our proposal aims to identify knowledge producers/users and define their interactions, describing the type of knowledge available and demanded and the information channels that each sector and professionals currently use and may use in the future. We intend to detect gaps in knowledge production and transfer and contribute to designing effective vocational training programs that integrate the specificities of the different socio-ecological systems, scientific and technical skills, including language and cultural barriers, within a general framework that guarantees the quality of the management.

PROJECT CONSORTIUM

Universidad de Alicante (Spain)

Hochschule Anhalt (Germany)

Jihoceska Univerzita V Ceskych Budejovicich (Czech Republic)

Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt For Naturforskning - NINA (Norway)

Senter For Opplæring I Anleggsgartnerfaget (Norway)

Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

Conselleria de Agricultura, Medio Ambiente, Cambio Climático y Desarrollo Rural, Generalitat Valenciana (Spain)

ROLE OF SERE

SERE is the leader and coordinator of this project, manages the communication and the outreach plan and will organize a survey and focus group at European level on Vocational Training for ecological restoration practitioners.