Intervention type: European
Employement number:
6
Main objective:
To represent its members and provides services to them aiming both at the exchange of knowledge and experience, and at the development and implementation of pilot projects
P.O. box 115394475 GrafenauAllemagne
Founded in 1973 under the official title "Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe", EUROPARC is the umbrella organisation of Europe's protected areas. It unites national parks, regional parks, nature parks and biosphere reserves in 38 countries, with the common aim of protecting Europe's unique variety of wildlife, habitats and landscapes. Altogether, EUROPARC Federation has over 370 member organisations, responsible for the management of more than 400 protected areas across the continent. EUROPARC provides them with a forum to share professional experience, collaborate on technical projects and progress common aims.
Apart form individual protected areas, EUROPARC's member organisations also include government ministries and agencies responsible for protected areas at national and regional levels, as well as independent conservation organisations and academic institutions concerned with protected area issues.
To foster a sense of common purpose across the protected area network in Europe
To support protected areas in improving their management
To raise public awareness on the aims and work of protected areas
To facilitate the establishment of new protected areas
To raise the profile of protected areas as a vital means of safeguarding many of the continent's most valuable natural heritage assets, and thereby to increase support for their future protection
To influence the future development of public policies and programmes, especially with the European Union, to the benefit of protected areas' objectives
| Covered topics: |
Education to environment and sustainable development for youngsters
Education and training of professionals or local representatives
Raising public opinion’s awareness
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| Actions examples: |
Development of a Junior Ranger Programme and a related European network for protected areas“Pupils experience Nature in Protected Areas”: programme for school trips in protected areas in particular with a focus on transboundary protected areas“Working for Nature – Nature for Working”: Development of an online internship exchange“NatuRegio”: capacity building project for young professionals in nature conservation and regional development in Romania and BulgariaSupport for the MSc course “Management of Protected Areas” carried out by the University of Klagenfurt, AustriaCoordination of the European Day of Parks, which is being celebrated annually on and around the 24th of May by protected areas and nature conservation organisation across Europe |
| Europeans partnerships: |
All listed projects were or are being carried out in co-operation with European partners, including protected areas, ministries, foundations, other nature conservation organisations and universities |
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Economic sustainable development
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| Actions examples: |
Development of the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas.
Joint project with the Russian NGO Zapovedniks Ecocentre aiming at catalyzing civil activities and local socio-economic initiatives using the potential of protected areas and PA-based NGOs
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| Actions examples: |
Europarc Federation is interested in having a European partnership on the following theme: linking agriculture, environment and territory in terms of biodiversity / wildlife protection |