September 26th, 2024
The Regional Dynamization Campaign (RDC) on-line workshop is approaching
The Regional Dynamization Campaign (RDC) plays a crucial role in fulfilling one of the main objectives of the LIFE EBP Reinforcement project in boosting overall data collection in SE Europe, both through promotion of participating in on-line bird portals as well as collecting more structured data (e.g. complete lists). By this, we hope to create an environment where more people in the region will have a larger incentive to join the standard bird monitoring as well.
There are two main points of action within the RDC: organizing data collection challenges each season of the year and working directly with volunteers by organizing specific training courses.
The first step towards defining the goals and objectives of the campaign is an on-line workshop that will be held during 3 days’ time, from October 7th till October 9th. At the workshop, we expect attendance of partners from 13 countries of the region (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia), that will be sharing their national experience and creating the future steps of the campaign together. During this time, we aim to establish the final design of the campaign, involving all the relevant local organizations to ensure that its main components are adequately fine-tuned to the local needs while keeping its necessary regional scope.
The workshop itself will be divided into 3 main topics arranged by each day. The first day will be dedicated to the data collection challenges, starting from the overall importance of the region for birds to the challenge design and experience in organizing challenges from other countries. We plan to finish with an open debate and input from partners on forming the challenge itself. The second day will be dedicated to training courses for volunteers. It will provide a good platform for sharing the already existing experience od partners, but also from a broader EBP community in training courses. We hope to define the specific needs of each partner and to produce a list and typology of courses to be conducted in each country. The final day will put focus on the communication strategy of the campaign, by providing the framework of communication strategy on a regional level and asking for input from partners on a national level. By this we should establish a coordinated way for communicating the RDC in each country by taking local needs into account.
In the preparation phase of the workshop, we hope it will be a fruitful meeting for partners, and a place of exchanging ideas and experience in order to fulfil our common goal in increasing the bird observation quality and quantity in SE Europe.
See the full programme here.
