Project IN-Nature

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Project IN-Nature

• Activities
• October 05-March 06

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Dissemination Activities

• Dissemination activities were carried out mainly
  through two different means
• Through the pilot courses
• By including the training as nature interpreter
  in another project ( Biodiversity Foundation)

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Dissemination Activities

• Pilot Courses
• Press La voz de Galicia. Several articles
  appeared in the regional papers, prior and after
  the course.La Voz de Galicia is the most
  popular paper of the region where the pilot
  course was held ( Castro Caldelas, Galicia)

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Dissemination Activities

• Pilot Courses
• The Centro Comarcal de Castro Caldelas, that
  collaborated with Adesper in the development of
  the course, invited the mares of the area to
  attend the course
• Experts The second session of the Course an
  expert in interpretation, Mr Jesús Manuel García
  was invited.

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Dissemination Activities

• Biodiversity Foundation
• The Biodiversity Foundation is an organism that
  depends on the Spanish Ministry of Environment
  and that carries out several training initiatives
  to foster rural sustainable development
• Adesper has taken part in 2005 and 2006 editions
  of the funding for training activities from the
  Foundation

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Dissemination Activities

• Biodiversity Foundation
• Within Adespers 2006 programme there are several
  activities devoted to promote and train Nature
  interpreters
• 7 Courses on Nature interpretation and rural
  sustainable tourism
• 2 Conferences Nature interpretation as a new
  professional profile
• Promotional Material
• Training material

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Validation the pilot course

• Adesper, in collaboration with Irma and the rural
  development entity Centro Comarcal Terra de
  Caldelas, carried out the pilot course aimed at
  the validation of the training itinerary.
• General Characteristics
• 21 hours course
• 3-day sessions
• 14 students

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Validation the pilot course

• Evaluation was carried out by means of
  questionnaires and direct feedback from students
• Four trainers took part in the sessions Juan
  Antonio Sánchez, Josefina Carballo, Marco
  Fachada, María San Raimundo, and so did an expert
  in heritage interpretation, Jesús Manuel García.

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Validation the pilot course

• Programme
• Day 1
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• General outlook of Leonardo da Vinci programme
  and other EU programmes ( LEADER, Equal etc)
• General outlook of Project In Nature aims and
  initiatives

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Validation the pilot course

• Interpretation The concept
• Definitions
• The objectives of intrpretation general
  objectives and specific objectives
• Interpretation principles (Tilden)
• Visitors what aspects should be taken into
  account?
• Local population implication, awareness raising,
  importance of sustainable and endogenous rural
  development

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Validation the pilot course

• The interpreter
• general competences,
• competence units
• Planning intepretation the basics
• Interpretive media classification ( Stewart)
• Evaluation of interpretation types

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Validation the pilot course

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• Rural development
• The implications of interpretation
• economic and social benefits of endogenous
  development.
• Practical exercise description of elements of
  patrimony that suffer environmental impacts.

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Validation the pilot course

• Day 2
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• Communication process
• interpretive communication
• The audience captive and non captive audiences
• Interpretation principles Tildens principles
• The interpretive equation
• The message
• The concept of interpretive theme

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Validation the pilot course

• Practical exercise Interpretation theme,
  examples of several interpretive messages where
  the student has to detect the theme
• Pm
• Interpretive media detailed description and
  examples
• Visitors
• Decision taking
• Visitor profiles
• Practical exercise description of the main
  temperaments according to personality features

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Validation the pilot course

• Day 3
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• Rural Heritage
• The definition of heritage
• Natural heritage
• Architectural heritage
• Ethnographic heritage
• Examples of heritage elements Alto Tamega

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Methodological Guides

• Module 6
• assembling information from partners,
• adding EU scope to each of the three units
• developing the unit about rural realm
• CD for al partners with the English final texts
  and with indicative pictures.

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Nature and rural realm interpreters network

• Draft of the Transnational Cooperation Agreement
• Gathering of the documents needed for the
  homologation of the professional qualification
  and talks with the institutions with competences
  on the matter (INCUAL- National Institute of
  Qualifications)