Les Apprimeurs met with Gaëlle Gasc, project manager for the revision of the Charter of the Brière Regional Natural Park, with the aim of analysing the needs of the RNP in terms of accessibility to the Park’s visitors and to propose a partnership to the organisation in line with the objectives of the European INE project.

Several areas emerged from this meeting, based on the tools and approaches already in place for inclusion, but also highlighting the training, facilitation and mediation needs of professionals, as well as the possibilities of reaching out to distant or excluded audiences.

Charter of the Regional Natural Park

The Charter constitutes the guideline for the Regional Natural Parks and ensures the RNP ‘label’ for a territory. The result of the project development work for this territory, it is revised every 15 years and is signed by the joint association of the RNP, the municipalities and conurbations concerned, the Ministry of Ecology, the Region and the Department.

Gaëlle Gasc has been tasked with assessing the current charter and proposing guidelines for the next one.

Needs identified for inclusion

Training and awareness-raising on accessibility and inclusion issues

The PNR represents a large team of permanent and seasonal workers. Whether for communication or mediation positions, accessibility (clear language, inclusive mediation during events and in museums, etc.) is an area to be developed through training.

Tools

Website, educational kits, etc. The PNR has solid tools, which can nevertheless be revised for greater accessibility.

Transmission

With the revision of the Charter, the area covered by the PNR is set to expand, through the inclusion of additional municipalities and conurbations. In an already large and very diverse geographical area (land/coast, towns/hamlets and villages in the countryside, political differences and differences in the average income of residents, etc.) and under pressure due to the constant influx of newcomers discovering the region, the question arises as to how the PNR can raise residents’ awareness of their region in order to safeguard its ecological and historical heritage.

Networking

The PNR is made up of numerous administrative entities, which can benefit from pooling training, educational and communication tools, as well as audiences.

Partnership opportunities

The needs and objectives of the Brière NRP therefore intersect with the INE (nature and inclusion) project and the driving force behind Les Apprimeurs (the production of workshops, tools and resources accessible to all).

In light of this observation, the two organisations are now considering the timing of the ‘work in progress’ to be carried out to enable people who are unable to access or who are distanced from nature to also enjoy the ecological richness of this Regional Nature Park.