Ecological restoration

The EU's general introduction lays the conceptual foundations for ecological rehabilitation and restoration and the resilience of ecosystems and aquatic environments.
The concepts of ecological and hydrological continuity, river morphology, and hydrogeomorphology are explained and illustrated.
A field trip provides an opportunity to analyze the issues, formulate hypotheses about how things work, and assess impacts.
The EU's practical work is preferably directly linked to the field.
The main tools and know-how for species reintroduction are presented and accompanied by illustrative practical work:
- Animal model practical work: reintroduction of a vulture population
- Plant model practical work: transplantation.
- Riparian forest practical work: and the concept of green corridors
The main impacts of soil sealing and interventions in aquatic environments (maintenance and development) and methods for assessing these impacts, accompanied by illustrative practical work:
- Practical work on water law: assessing the impacts of soil sealing and hydrological compensation.
- Hydrogeomorphological practical work: analysis of historical and current hydraulic continuity.
Finally, the EU invites learners to compare ecological and hydrological continuity and to discuss ways of optimizing restoration.

- Understand the concepts and challenges of continuity and restoration.
- Learn about the main techniques for analyzing ecological and hydrological continuity and restoration.
- Apply expertise in species reintroduction, continuity impact assessment, and cross-analysis of river morphology and ecological continuity.
- Identify in situ the specific features of the terrain that lead to ecological and hydrological discontinuities and malfunctions at different scales
- Take a multidisciplinary approach to the environment
- Identify sources of documentation relating to these issues and diagnostic methods.

The fundamentals of ecology and hydrology (found in the EU aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, for example).