EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

136 NOMINATION DOSSIER "ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
• 2nd trilateral meeting of Ukraine,
Slovakia and Germany: Beech forests
Nomination for the World Heritage List.
28 November – 01 December 2008
• World Heritage in Central, East and
Southeast Europe Network Meeting.
17 – 20 September 2009
• Serial Natural World Heritage Properties
– Challenges for Nomination and
Management. 7 – 11 November 2009
Jasmund component part
Research cooperation
Th ere is no formal cooperation with research
institutions. Th ere is a loose collaboration
with geologists of the University of Greifswald,
the State Offi ce for Environment,
Nature Conservation and Geology and the
Hanoverian Federal Institute for Geosciences
and Natural Resources as well as with the
University of Applied Sciences in Eberswalde
and various faculties of forest sciences on
the topics of forests, nature conservation and
land use, and the Technical University of
Berlin on the subject of water management.
Contributions to the research on natural
forests, water development, moor protection,
and water balance in the Jasmund National
Park were worked out and par tially published
in the context of diploma and doctoral theses.
Publications
For an own series of publications, the nation al
park has been releasing three issues annually
of the National Park Info publication.
Staff training
Th ere is no special training programme for
employees of the offi ce. Th e training courses
are based on the respective employees’
personal requirements and their operating
areas. Rangers attend internal training
courses on an annual basis. Furthermore,
forest managers and wardens in general are
off ered the opportunity to train for certifi ed
nature and landscape manager at the Agricultural
College of the State of Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania.
Other national park employees select and
participate in training courses in line with
their needs, among others at the College
of Natural Conservation and Sustainable
Development of Mecklenburg-Western
Pomer ania and at the University of Applied
Sciences of Public Administration, Police,
and Administration of Justice of the state
of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Information
on training courses off ered by
other institu tions (meetings, workshops, etc.)
is provided, such off erings may also be used
if there is an offi cial need and interest.
Citizen involvement
• Four appointed natural conservation
wardens
• Verein der Freunde und Förderer des
Nationalparks Jasmund e. V. (80 members):
sponsor of the Chalkstone Museum
Gummanz, occasional fund ing of printed
matters for the national park offi ce, no
regular cooperation
Serrahn component part
Research cooperation
A research plan is currently being developed
in the Müritz National Park to govern
the direction of the research activities in the
intermediate and long term, with a harmonisation
within EUROPARC Germany
taking place here. Müritz National Park is
member in the LTER-D (Long Term Ecological
Research – Deutschland) research
association.
Th ere is a close informal cooperation related
to the research fi elds of forests, nature
conservation, moors, water balance, and
open landscape vegetation with the University