VITALIS Internship Forestry

For students of Forestry, Gardening, Agriculture, Botanic

The student learns/knows:

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 develops their understanding of:

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

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

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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