This online Training Needs Assessment tool (TNA) is developed as part of the LIFE Preparatory project, ‘LIFE e-Natura2000.edu: supporting e-learning and capacity building for Natura 2000 managers’. The project, implemented by EUROPARC Federation, funded by LIFE financial instrument of the European Community, referred to hereafter as the LIFEedu Project.
The TNA tool aims to help Natura 2000 site managers to assess their competencies and learn about their priority capacity development needs. By using this tool, all individuals that have Natura 2000 management responsibilities can self-assess their training needs and use the results to plan better their future professional development actions. It is based on IUCN's Global Register of Competencies for PA Practitioners (2016), adapted to the specific competencies required of Natura 2000 site managers, as defined through the Life EDU project1 and referred to hereafter as the Competence Register.
The online TNA requires a set of information from you: based on your inputs, a short report will be generated listing the competencies that you may wish to develop or improve in future, as well as the competencies which are already well developed by you as a Natura 2000 manager.
1 The online TNA tool is developed using the list of competencies identified as being specifically required by Natura 2000 managers. Experts, mobilised through the Life EDU project, analysed the requirements from the EU Nature Directives and Natura 2000 site management objectives identified in different countries across Europe.
