ILSE organises a project for the promotion of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the improving of the standards of the qualification for lifeguards with a support out of the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The ILSE Member Associations from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain and United Kingdom participate in this project and are supported by their national EU Agencies. The Seminars are open to all other ILSE Associations, which can send their participants to the seminars on their own expenses.
ILSE organises a project for the promotion of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) and the improving of the standards of the qualification for lifeguards with a support out of the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The ILSE Member Associations from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain and United Kingdom participate in this project and are supported by their national EU Agencies. The Seminars are open to all other ILSE Associations, which can send their participants to the seminars on their own expenses.
The first seminar was organised by the Romanian Member Association, the Asociatia Nationalã a Scafandrilor Professionisti si Salvamarilor din Romãnia (ANSPSR) in Constanta, 08 – 11 September 2011. 27 participants from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden as well as members from SLS GB and Slovenia – which do not participate in the EU Programme – attended the first seminar.
Main topic on the agenda was the presentation and analysing of the instructor education in the different member associations. The intention is to find a standard according to the EQF to which the national member associations can adapt their national regulations.
Further the various rescue techniques and equipment were discussed. On the next day the participants made practical exercises with these rescue techniques and equipment.
The Romanian Member ANSPSR presented their new School for Lifeguards and Divers, a complex with seminar rooms, a swimming pool for the training and a 20m diving tower for the education of rescue divers.
The seminar ended with a dinner on an island restaurant where all participants had the chance for personal meetings and discussions with the other course participants.
The seminar shall be continued in the Headquarters of DLRG in Bad Nenndorf/Germany in January 2012.