Eurofire is an international partnership, funded by EU Leonardo da Vinci, that is developing a competency based training system, based on a new learning outcomes approach. The Eurofire project runs for 24 months from October 2006 to September 2008. The project brings together partners with international expertise and experience in wildland fire, management and training to develop, evaluate and distribute a new EU wide, multi-lingual on-line training resource.
The new European Qualifications Framework (EQF) focuses on learning outcomes at a particular level: the skills, knowledge and competencies, that people operating at wildfires or prescribed burning activities might need.
In the Eurofire project a set of competency standards are used to describe the learning outcomes that a member of a crew operating at basic level might need. Along with the standards more general educational material is being developed for farmers, foresters and other land managers on fire prevention and other fire management activities.
The project partners are the Global Fire Monitoring Centre, CTIF (The International Association of Fire and Rescue Services), and Rural Development Initiatives Ltd.
Issue 1 of InForm, the Eurofire newsletter, has recently been launched. Please click on attached file below to see full article.
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