PREDICTED ACTIVITIES AND JOBS AT UNIPARQUE

UNIPARQUE will be work in a new model of partnership between the State, the private initiative and the civil society, aiming at the joint management of Brazilian protected areas. As a center of professional training and excellence, the University won't submitted to the legal requirements of the Ministry of Education and to academic formalities.

UNIPARQUE will be economically supported by the charge of services provided to visitors linked or not to educational Institutions and also by making accords, partnerships and providing services for other institutions with the participation of the local community. It is predicted that some of the courses for the local community will have to be subsidized.

Find out here some of the activities and services we are planing to offer:

SERVICES:

• Open courses in the environmental, tourism, lodging and leisure areas, besides other themes related to regional interests;
• Room and board;
• Continuos monitoring of PETAR's resources, stimulating the creation of new alternatives of visitation, and the constant maintenance of public places. Besides, the signs and information available will restrain the damage to the area. With that, we hope to have an ordered visitation, increasing the number of tourists in a positive way;
• Providing infrastructure and logistics for developing educational and scientific projects and ecotourism, and providing services that are economically and ecologically sustainable;
• Partnerships with educational institutions, will make it possible to turn its area and buildings into an "advanced campus" where these institutions may put in practice their field researches and educational programs related tot he environmental area;
• Promoting guided, and "outdoor sports" activities, at a Sports and Adventure Center;
• Consultancy, orientation and institutional backup for the local ecotourism agents;
• Providing space so that industries and businesses may promote their researches and products compatible with the ecological sustainability (ecotechnical products);
• Creating a visitor center, where the local artistic and intellectual production, as well as documents and objects belonging to the local culture and ecosystems will be catalogued and available for consulting and research;
• Coordinating thematic study groups, lectures, debates, etc.
• Elaborating publications and didactic and teaching material;
• Building up a data base destined to support studies, researches, etc;
• Accomplishment of accords for developing researches and projects in partnership with PETAR, regional Municipal Parks, teaching institutions, NGOs and public and private institutions in general;
• Providing consulting services by guides and specialists.