Briefing Papers for the period
May – October 2020
& beyond
The impact of the Covid 19 pandemic required changes to the project work programme (explained below)
This page contains two sets of information designed to support the continuing development of the project programme.
The first presented the Briefing Papers published in June & July which created an outline programme for the Green Bridges project through to March 2021
They were intended to
- allow partners who could not develop practical work to focus on the background & research aspects of the programme.
- provide two project elements to be developed by all partners
- A Common Task: ‘Where is the Green Bridge’ (related to work during the cancelled UK Learning & Teaching meeting)
- Beginning work on the ‘Best Practice Guide’ (to have been the focus of the cancelled Learning & Teaching meeting in Finland)
Work on the Common Task to relate to the project ‘Touchstone’ statements:
Deepen Understanding & Appreciation of the Natural World
Enhance Human Relationships with the Natural World by Awareness, Reflection, Engagement & Action
Project Activities for use in Pandemic Times
Proposals created in June & July by the Coordinating Agency was to produce, during June & July, a series of possible activities.
Viewed by clicking the image below
During August the plans were enhanced and an Autumn Work Programme, with reporting, was published.
Outline of Autumn Activities 2020 is below
Reporting & Process diagrams
The reporting process: explanatory information
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
The Common Task
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Background to situation
There was one partnership meeting then the Covid 19 pandemic prevented further meetings
There were 2 impacts in the first year of the project
- Cancellation of LTTA meetings (‘Learning Teaching & Training Activities’) in UK & Finland
- these were designed to establish a common partnership understanding of the core elements of the partnership programme.
- a division between partner opportunities
- The differing impact of the pandemic resulted in 2 partners being able to develop the project broadly as intended whilst other partners were unable to develop the core practical elements.
Project monitoring was also affected. It had to allow for the differences between partner opportunities.
- Some were able to maintain practical group work
- others were required by circumstance to focus on the background material.
The physical sharing and use of partner experience & work was not possible.
The revised structure (above) allowed all partners to maintain work relevant to the project requirements.
The intention being to ensure full engagement by all partners with the hope that later in the project those restricted by the pandemic would be able, eventually, to apply their researches in a practical fashion.
This was presented to partners during the early summer and formalised as an autumn programme.
The Green Bridges Project. 