I attach here with his kind permission an interview with Karl Hansen, Director of the Living Rainforest, Berkshire.
Under the former LIFE programme Karl drew down some €2 million to support development of a new form of tropical glass house exhibit.See: life-environment-eu-interest-group-interview-with-karl-hansen-final-jan07-2.doc
The new LIFE+ programme will open in September and close again by the end of [...]
Those of us who are not very rich can only make one really substantial gift to a given organisation or cause. That is through our will.
But that’ s okay because we are all going to die!
To be serious, this is of course a sober, sensitive and sometimes difficult subject, but most zoos and aquaria across Europe really do not seem to [...]
This is definitely one of the critical success factors of this kind of exercise.
The campaign chairman needs to be someone who:
commands respect within the community from which you expect to raise the money
understands and endorses the zoo’s mission and the rationale of this particular exercise
can get things done in a no nononsense manner
is willing to actually ask [...]
There is funding available for programmes to allow an exchange of skills ( zookeeping, zoo conservationists or scientists, or any discipline within the zoo field)
This would come from DG Education and Culture who are keen to fund less ‘academic’ and more ‘vocational’ partnerships than in the past. 80% is available to create a course, move [...]
The EU has recently launched a new fund open to nearly all the states bordering the existing EU ( Central Asia and North Africa)
Physical development of a zoo site in these countries and potentially all kinds of in situ projects might well be eligible. Organisations in country however often need the expertise of established zoos [...]
This budget line lies with DG Research and is intended to help bring young people ( and those of all ages) to a greater interest in science and science careers. It also looks to enhance cooperation across the EU and look at issues of European interest
An exhibition or other similar activity coordinated on by 3 [...]
All those funding programmes, and none of them quite fit your project, dammit!
Well, perhaps you can shoehorn whatever it is you want to do into somebody else’s funding instrument
Or perhaps you can go along and talk before the rules are made? How much more effective and subtle to intervene at strategy level, rather than wait until [...]
Twycross Zoo- East Midland Zoological Society, UK has working with John Regan Associates Ltd secured £3 million towards its new entrance complex.
This is in view of the added value that the project provided in keeping with the Regional Economic Strategy. The building will embrace a number of ‘eco-flagship’ elements, a regional TIC, a programme to [...]
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