VITALIS Internship Forestry
For students of Forestry, Gardening, Agriculture, Botanic
Learning Outcomes
- How to assess and treat seed and planting material, prepare regeneration and cultivated areas and implement measures of near-natural forest management
- Which preventive measures can be taken to protect soils and stands
- How to establish, care for and maintain hunting facilities
- How to establish and maintain hedges, open spaces and wetlands
- Check the operational readiness of technical equipment, machines, devices and tools, and how to select and use them
- Which different timber harvesting methods are available and how to fell trees with a chainsaw
- How to measure, sort and store wood and how to protect and conserve it
The student learns/knows:
Focal Points and Tasks
- Fenced off areas (stands of young trees) to protect them from animals and maintaining fences
- Protecting shoots of young trees from animals by applying solutions or mechanical protection devices
- Thinning forest stands, i.e. thinning out stands that are too dense
- Removing snow and wind breakage
- Caring for and restoring trees, marking trees for harvesting
- Measuring and marking logs
- Creating, paving and maintaining footpaths and logging roads, including the use of earthmoving and construction machinery
- Removing woody plants and vegetation from roadsides, mowing roadsides if necessary
- Assisting in game management, e.g. building raised hides and game feeding stations, installing nesting boxes, filling feeding stations in winter
The student develops their understanding of:
Learning outcomes common to all professions
- Health and safety at work - observes health and safety rules and SOPs
- Professionally oriented foreign language - improved ability to use a foreign language (English/German) in the execution of tasks and the ability to formulate short and comprehensible statements to communicate in the workplace
- Personal and social competences - develops a culturally and ethically sound approach to working with others in a company, increased creativity and consistency in their actions, copes with stress, responsibility and assigned tasks
- Organisation of work in small teams - increased ability to communicate and work collaboratively with colleagues, organise work in a team
VITALIS Internships
- All internships according to the Dual vocational training in Germany and the principles of ECVET
- Our internships take place in small groups under the guidance of qualified and experienced staff
- The internships are scaleable - depending to the knowledge of participants from different classes
- According to the length of stay the internships can be customized and combined
- Our internships can be funded by Erasmus programme - open for all member states of the European Union
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