Slovak Environmental Agency Corporate Development Project

Participation

SLOVAK ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY (SEA), Slovak Republic

FIELD STUDIES COUNCIL (FSC), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Financial support

BRITISH COUNCIL

Aim

To help the SEA clarify corporate policy and aims and ensure its viability, and to support a methodology of planning and delivering activity to meet those aims through a network of 5 SEA Centres.

• To train SEA managers to manage staff and resources professionally in delivering the objectives of Slovak Environmental Agency through the transfer of skills from UK trainers and in partnership with the Field Studies council.

• To introduce systematic re-assessment of corporate aims and policies.

• To support corporate project planning and delivery methodologies, with emphasis on working with clients and sponsors for the benefit of communities.

• To build the capacity of SEA to support the management and development of other environmental education centre networks.

Timescale

1 April 2001 – 31 March 2004

Target Group

The main target group is key members of staff in the SEA environmental education network – SEA Head Office staff, Centre Managers and Staff.

• SEA will identify current organisational objectives and provide effective support structures and systems for viable network of local centres.

• SEA Centre Managers and staff newly trained to deliver the organisational objectives of SEA.

• Centre Managers trained to produce Business Plans, Marketing Plans and detailed annual Action Plans, Quality in Action training programmes for the staff of each Centre.

• SEA Managers produce a corporate marketing plan.

• SEA to produce a human resource strategy for the appointment, training and professional development of Centre staff.

• Centre staff trained in effective environmental education methodologies, programme and activity development.

• 4 – days Training for development of Business Plans
• 4 – days Training for development of Marketing Plans, feedback from first Business Planning Workshop
• 4 – days Training for Fundraising and Proposal Writing
• 4 – days Training for Quality in Action and Eco Centre
• Workshop for Centre Managers
• Meeting with nongovernmental and state organisations dealing with environmental education

• 4 – days Training for Environmental Education outside the classroom, planing and delivering activities outside the classroom (topics: theory of environmental education and learning, ecosystems practical, educational trails)
• 4 – days Training for Environmental Education outside the classroom, planing and delivering activities outside the classroom (topics: parts of the environment, indicators of quality of the environment, eco games)
• Creating of the manual Theory and practice of Environmental Education outside the classroom
• Creating of programme offers of the Centres of Environmental Education SEA
• Publicity of the Centres of Environmental Education on SEA web page and in the journal Enviromagazin
• To submit the project proposal Bright Sparks an Energy Education programme to Small Grant Scheme of the British Embassy
• Purchase of fieldwork equipment for the Centre of Environmental Education Drieňok Teplý Vrch supported through Peace Corps fund
• Training of trainers – workshop for teachers – Working with children out of doors

• Further training of Centre Managers, both SEA and other networks, to address needs identified in Year Two
• Training of trainers – workshop for teachers – Working with children out of doors
• Creation of Eco Centre in Centre of Environmental Education in Teplý Vrch
• Review Workshop - a confirmation of what achieved – commitment to policies, strategies and mechanisms to underpin the future of the network

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