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FORestore

The FORestore project recognizes the urgent need for effective, inclusive regulations to combat deforestation through a holistic approach that ensures everyone’s participation in the green transition. By focusing on developing competencies within sustainable forestry sectors, FORestore advances environmental sustainability as a cross-cutting priority. It promotes green sector skills strategies, innovative methodologies, and updated curricula that better serve individual and community needs. In this project VET institutions play a crucial role in meeting the needs of protect, preserve and restore forests while contributing to a modern, climate-neutral, resource-efficent and competitive economy. Here the needs of both sides have to be met, and efficent parterships should be estabished focused on providing support and training to smallholders, enhancing their practical and techncal knowledge and capabilities and improving land-use planning.

The project will also contribute to the geographic multi-annual indicators for Sub-Saharan Africa, underscoring the importance of international collaboration to address deforestation. FORestore responds to the needs of communities dependent on healthy forest ecosystems, supporting both EU and African policy goals for sustainable development

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES :
Acquire, enhance, and exchange knowledge, competencies, and resources to bolster capacity in delivering Vocational Education and Training (VET) addressing deforestation challenges.
Provide tailored modules for skills-matching in the forward-looking forest sector: Sustainable Forest Management; and restoration technique.
Raise awareness about the importance of Sustainable Forest Management, conservation, and restoration through involving communities in sustainable forestry practices.

TARGET GROUP:
Partner organisations
Learners and Students
Vocational Education and Training (VET) Institutions
Educators and Trainers
Local Communities
Other stakeholders: Policymakers in Education and Environment, Environmental Organizations, SMEs, business and industry stakeholders in the forestry management

PARTNERSHIP:
– Coordinator TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA VO ZVOLENE [SLOVAKIA] 
– EDUFORMA SRL [ITALY] 
– MVNGO [ITALY]          
– EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE SPOT [GRECE] 
– OAU [NIGERIA] 
– UGANDA YOUTH SKILLS TRAINING ORGANIZATION [UGANDA]      
– African Centre for Technical Training (ACTT) [GHANA]  
– Puntland Technical University [SOMALIA] 
– INTERNATIONAL BILINGUAL ACADEMY (IBAY SUP)/ Higher Institute of Environment Science ( HIES) [CAMEROON]