MIENAT project meeting and training days in Porto, Portugal
Assoc. prof. dr. Rasa Pranskūnienė and assoc. prof. dr. Anastasija Novikova from Bioeconomy Development Faculty (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) have attended the face to face meeting of partners in the Erasmus + KA203 project – Erasmus+ MIENAT Strategic Partnership in Higher Education project “Methodology of Interpretation of European Nature Heritage in Tourism” at Porto university, Portugal from 13th to 18th of September 2021. The meeting was attended by representatives of partner universities, including: Porto University (Portugal), Universidad Europea, Madrid (Spain). Munster Technological University (Ireland), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romania), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), and Prague University of Economics and Business (Czech Republic). The representatives of the Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (Germany), FH Burgenland (Austria) were connected online.
The project, which has a 36-month implementation period. The main objectives of the project are to prepare materials for innovations in the field of education on the topic of “Experiencing Nature Tourism” and to create new, modern, didactic materials.
The meeting, was held as Training Days event (short-term joint staff training event) at School of Economics and Management, Porto University (port. Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto), where partners of the project presented natural heritage and methodology of its interpretation, shared the examples of good practices. During the workshops there were held presentations, piloting, evaluation of prepared didactic materials. Each partner presented the draft of his part of the e-book chapter, as well as presented the idea of chosen case studies, discussed the didactical concepts. Meeting participants had possibility to visit on – site examples of good practices in |Portugal. During the meeting, it was also agreed that the next meeting would take place in Vytautas Magnus Univertsity, in Lithuania.
Training Days at the university in Porto gave us great opportunity to see and learn and enjoy so much in such a short time! We became familiar with the university and beauties of Porto region; we saw different nature attractions and experienced various ways of their interpretation. We believe the Training Days and stay in Portugal gave us a great deal of new experience and enabled us to make another step in our project.
