Education
Environmental Education Proposals - School Year 2009/2010
A nature park is an ideal place to carry out didactic activities dealing with ecological issues, strategies for the conservation of nature and the promotion of sustainable development, and to preserve the knowledge of local traditions and the historical-cultural values of a territory.
Environmental education has the noble aim to direct the personal conscience towards a future in which the traces of man will harmoniously blend with the balance of the natural systems. The existence of protected areas is the evidence of the will to reach this kind of sustainable future, by preserving and enhancing the value of precious elements of the natural world and to rediscover man and his traditions, which are part of it.
In the context of the national system of protected areas, Beigua Regional Park represents an inexhaustible reservoir of ideas and suggestions for the creation of didactic and educational activities.
The educational structures of Beigua Park - privileged seats where promotional, sensitization, and environmental education activities are planned and suggested - work within the educational network of Liguria, in connection with the Environmental Education Regional Center - C.R.E.A. Liguria, with the Environmental Education Provincial Centers of Genova and Savona, the Environmental Education Center of the Parks of Liguria and with all the other Environmental Education Centers belonging to Sistema Ligure di Educazione Ambientale and the National System of INFEA.
With Decree no. 2142 of 29.07.2008, the Experience Center of Beigua Park has been included in the Environmental Education Regional System for a period of three years.
Since its establishment (1996), the Park Authority has been working to provide initiatives aimed at drawing young generations nearer the knowledge of the territory, by offering them the evaluation and learning instruments of the complex system of environmental and cultural resources.
To this aim, a direct contact has been established both with the world of school and with the other subjects involved in information, communication, and environmental education activities (through synergic actions experimented in collaboration with structures belonging to the Regional Center of Environmental Education of Liguria, but also with other subjects, such as MUVITA, COOP Liguria, the Municipalities and Mountain Communities within the boundaries of the protected area).
More in general, the activities tend to promote a didactic exploitation of the territory through a cooperative and collaborative methodology by establishing relationships between different resources and subjects, building a useful network leading to a planning which aims at the training and the education towards environment and sustainability.
- Centro di Esperienza - Environmental Education Center
- The Educational Structures
For the school year 2009/2010, Beigua Park has on the program a series of educational proposals dedicated to kindergartens, elementary, middle, and secondary schools.
The duration of the tours is to agree when you book the activity. Booking forms should be handed in at Centro di Esperienza del Parco del Beigua within November 2009.
Booking Form (PDF, Italian text - 130 Kb)
Rates
- Half-day environmental education meetings: Kindergartens, Elementary, and Middle Schools:Euros 4.00/pupil; Secondary Schools: Euros 5.00/pupil
- Full-day environmental education meetings: Kindergartens, Elementary, and Middle Schools:Euros 6.00/pupil; Secondary Schools: Euros 8.00/pupil
The schools situated in the territory of the Municipalities of Parco del Beigua - Arenzano, Campo Ligure, Cogoleto, Genova (Circoscrizione Ponente-Pegli, Prà and Voltri), Masone, Rossiglione, Sassello, Stella, Tiglieto, Varazze - are entitled to a 50% reduction.
Information:
- In case of bad weather, tours may be canceled or postponed.
- The above-mentioned prices regard the activity for a group of a maximum of 25 pupils.
- In the proposals including it, the one-hour meeting in the classroom is free.
- The operators of the Park are authorized environmental and hiking guides and qualified environmental educators.
The educational activities are organized by the operators of the Cooperative DROSERA.
For bookings and information on the planning of the educational activities, please contact Centro Esperienze del Parco del Beigua Via G. Marconi, 165 - 16011 Arenzano (GE) - Tel. 010/8590300 - Fax 010/8590064 - E-mail: CEparcobeigua@parcobeigua.it
Click here to find all the Environmental Education Proposals (Italian text)
