Seven Sisters - South Downs AONBEach year EUROPARC Atlantic Isles runs a very popular and varied series of seminars.  These usually occur in the spring and in the autumn, at various locations within the Atlantic Isles area. 




Recent seminars:


  • Naturally Better - how protected landscapes can help deliver health and wellbeing outcomes  Wallingford, 26 March 2009


    Seminar report

    Presentations available:

    Charlie Foster
    Claus Jespersen
    Thomas Classen


  • Beyond Boundaries - protected areas, cities and the European Landscape Convention  London 26-27 January 2009


    Seminar report

  • Making sustainable tourism a foundation of the rural economy  Belfast, 23-24 October 2008


    Seminar report

    Presentations available for download:

    Andrea Nicholas - Green Tourism
    Patricia Rossi, Italy
    Destilink
    European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
    Greenbox Ireland
    Vanessa Scott
    Rams Island, Lough Neagh
    Failte Ireland
    Northern Ireland Tourism Board

  • Protected Areas in the 21st Century - what does the future hold?  Cardiff, 27-28 March 2008

    Seminar report  

    The presentations are available for download:

Gudridur Thornovardardottir, Unhverfisstofnun (Environment Agency), Iceland
Marta Mugica, Europarc Federation Spain
Olaf Osterman, Europarc Federation, Germany
Michael Starrett, Irish Heritage Council, Ireland
Howard Sutcliffe, Clwydian Range AONB, Wales
Martin Beaton, South Downs Joint Committee, England
Andy Wilson, North York Moors NPA, England


  • Community Engagement and Protected Areas: what works, and what you need to do.  Newcastle, 1-2 November 2007
    The Best Practice Guide will be available here soon.
    The presentations are available for download:

    Click here for Weerribben-Wieden NP (Netherlands)
    Click here for the BESST Project from the Peak District (UK)
    Click here for the Wicklow Uplands Council (Ireland)
    Click here for Community Futures work in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs (UK)


  • Climate Change and Protected Areas.  Kings College Cambridge, March 2007

    Click here for the summary. 

  • European Landscape Convention

    Click here for the summary.

  • Renewable energy and Protected Areas
    Click here for the summary.
  • Proteced landscapes and the coastal and marine environment
    Click here for the summary.
Latest News & Events
Duncan Mills Scholarship Awards The Duncan Mills Scholarship Awards are now open to applications! If you are thinking of traveling elsewhere in the world in order to learn more about protected areas and their management but need some help with costs, the Awards might just be for you. PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE: 31st January 2010. Download the information here.
EAI Sustainable Tourism Network Meeting The next meeting of the EAI Sustainable Tourism Network will be hosted by Clwydian Range AONB on the 17th November 09. We'll be discussing all things related to protected landscapes and sustainable tourism, especially the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas.
Full details of our next seminar, 3-4 November 2009 Our next seminar will be in Edinburgh, and is entitled 'Managing landscapes: more outcomes, less outputs'. The 3rd will be spent with colleagues at Pentland Hills Regional Park, and on the 4th we have speakers from Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland, as well as from the Scottish Executive, Cairngorms NPA and Lomond Hills RP. The full programme and booking form can be downloaded here, including in Welsh..
Latest news from our working groups Find out more about what the Coastal and Marine Working Group, and the Sustainable Tourism Charter Network, have been up to recently.
Latest seminar reports The reports from our last three seminars, held in Belfast (sustainable tourism), London (European Landscape Convention and urban fringe) and Wallingford (health partnerships) are all now available for download.