Beneficiaries implementing projects with the Programme support have possibility to improve their professional skills and gain new qualifications. Within the Programme thematic objectives HERITAGE and BORDERS professionals from Polish-Ukrainian borderland build their capacity and expertise by exchange of personnel and conducting dedicated professional trainings and postgraduate educational programme courses

Under the Programme:

• 25 HERITAGE and BORDERS projects included trainings and educational activities for professionals working in certain fields addressed by these projects;
• 18 of these projects have been already completed.

       113  professional trainings

• 113 trainings were organized for professionals and various institutions’ personnel. They included:
  • 41 trainings for 390 representatives of border and customs services;
  • 20 trainings for personnel responsible for natural heritage management;
  • 52 trainings for staff responsible for the management of historical and cultural management.

Additionally, within these projects beneficiaries organized:

• 31 exchanges for professionals responsible for the management of historical and cultural heritage;
• 8 exchanges for staff responsible for natural heritage.

Project examples:

• project FriendlyBorders - international postgraduate studies for Polish and Ukrainian Border Guards;
• project BorderProtect - trainings and exchanging good practices for border personnel;
• project ROSETTES - workshops and trainings on exchange the knowledge and experience regarding common heritage between project’s partners personnel;
• project CBCPaths - improved qualifications of tourist staff.