Amazing Opportunities to learn heritage skills abroad!!!
WiCAT have been fortunate enough to work with Grampus for some years now and many of our volunteers and students have had the fantastic experience of taking part in one of their courses, taking us to Romania, Iceland, Cyprus, Italy and other fascinating destinations.
A new round of courses are available and applications are currently being sought.
The placements are either 'environmental skills' or 'traditional skills'. Lower age limit is 17, no upper age limit. To take part, you will enrol on a 'Green Village' training course & complete one or more units of the vocational course 'SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT - FOCUS ON CULTURE & NATURE'. Examples...
If you are interested in applying for one of these courses, please follow the link below:
WiCAT have been fortunate enough to work with Grampus for some years now and many of our volunteers and students have had the fantastic experience of taking part in one of their courses, taking us to Romania, Iceland, Cyprus, Italy and other fascinating destinations.
A new round of courses are available and applications are currently being sought.
The placements are either 'environmental skills' or 'traditional skills'. Lower age limit is 17, no upper age limit. To take part, you will enrol on a 'Green Village' training course & complete one or more units of the vocational course 'SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT - FOCUS ON CULTURE & NATURE'. Examples...
- CZECH REPUBLIC (July 2015) - organic agriculture & horticulture.
- IRELAND (July 2015) - Woodworking/carpentry/timber construction.
- ROMANIA (August 2015) - mask making/icon painting/jewellery/fashion.
- SLOVAKIA (July 2015) - traditional textiles/oven building/roundhouse building/felt-making.
- SLOVENIA (July/August 2015) - hay meadow management/traditional cookery/straw weaving/animal husbandry.
- TURKEY (September 2015) - Turkish paint printing (marbling)/ceramics/weaving/cookery.
- CYPRUS (September 2015) - agricultural terrace construction/adobe brick making/tree planting/wild food.
- BULGARIA (mid August to mid-September 2015) - ceramics/metal working/textiles.
If you are interested in applying for one of these courses, please follow the link below:
