Welcome to EcoTrain 2010
This innovative project has been developed between Ambios and several partner organisations in Europe. It offers volunteers the chance to join a small team of like-minded people and gain a European perspective of ecology and environmental conservation projects in Spain, Hungary and Poland. We are now recruiting participants for our funded 2011 placements.
Click here to apply for EcoTrain 2010.
The project is funded under The Leonardo da Vinci programme which is part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme. Leonardo Mobility funds overseas placements with the objective of improving Vocational Education and Training across Europe.
Placements
Placements are available at the following organisations on the dates indicated:
Hugary Placements
The Barn Owl Foundation - Rural south Hungary
Themes: Radio tracking barn owls (simultaneous with Spain and UK), building aviaries for rescued barn owls, installation of nest boxes, contributing to educational talks on owl conservation (in English), dormouse monitoring, invertebrate monitoring, bats surveys, botanical surveys and practical habitat management.
Spain Placements
SEO Bird life - Ebro delta, Catalunya, NE Spain
Themes: Radio tracking barn owls (simultaneous with Hungary and UK ), wetland management, water quality analysis, bird surveys (including assisting with mist-netting, bird ringing), assisting with public events, estate work, habitat management, scientific monitoring of the fauna, flora and physical parameters.
Poland Placements
The Mammal Research Institute - Primeval Forest, Poland
Themes: Locating roe deer, bison and wild boar using radio-tracking equipment. Collecting dung samples, analysing location data, ungulate surveys, biomass recording.
Norway Placement
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Themes: During your placement you will receive training from NINA staff, carrying out some or all of the following tasks: ecosystem monitoring (climatic parameters, vegetation, herbivore abundance, bird transects), monitoring of arctic fox den sites, collecting and analyses of faeces samples, inputting data into a computer, maintaining the educational farm, participating in activities of environmental education and publicity.
Portugal Placements
SPEA - Tyto Tagus Project, Tagus Estuary
Themes: Radio tracking surveys of Barn Owls, owl census by spotlight car transects in the Tagus Estuary, monitoring road kills and collecting owl carcasses for analysis, inputting data into a computer, collecting and analysing owl pellets, maintaining the educational farm, participating in activities of environmental education and publicity