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SFM VR - Sustainable Forest Management Through Virtual Reality

2021-2-FI01-KA210-VET-0000490832021Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and trainingfinalized
Countries: FI|RO|IT · Grant: €60,000
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Objectives

The project aimed to achieve a number of results that can benefit sustainable forest management across Europe. These outcomes include: - Identifying the different perceptions, needs and objectives for sustainable forest management in different European countries and promoting a more integrated approach to education for sustainable forest management across the region. - Exploiting new digital methods, such as virtual reality environments, to create innovative and effective learning content to better engage and educate learners about forest management. . Improving knowledge and cooperation on the missing elements of SFM education and sharing knowledge and resources across Europe to foster better collaboration and communication between different countries and stakeholders working on SFM. - Develop a vision of common development needs that can guide future SFM training activities and ensure a more sustainable and ecological approach to forest management across Europe. By achieving these results, the project has been able to contribute to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to forest management across Europe.

Background

The needs addressed by this project included identifying the different perceptions, needs and objectives of sustainable forest management in different European countries. This has been important because different regions have unique contexts and methodological developments that influence their approach to sustainable forest management. By identifying these differences, the project has been able to contribute to a more coherent approach to education for sustainable forest management across Europe. The project also sought to use new digital methods, such as virtual reality environments, to create learning content that highlights common European objectives for sustainable forest management in different forest environments. This has responded to the need for more innovative and effective training methods to better engage and educate learners. The project has also sought to improve knowledge and cooperation on missing elements in forest management education, to share knowledge and resources across Europe and to develop a vision of common development needs. This responded to the need to improve cooperation and communication between different countries and stakeholders working on SFM.

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