Training Catalog



Inter-university Diploma (under development) Management and valorization of underground environments and natural cavities
Savoie Mont Blanc University
Place : Ardèche
Duration: 140 hrs (common core + 1 specialty),
210h (core course + 2 specialties)
Core : 2 blocks of skills of 5 days each
Specialties : 2 skill blocks of 5 days each per specialty
Frequency : Annual. Launch of the training in 2021. Possibility of doing it over 2 years (especially with the aim of following the 2 specialties)
Objectives : complete your knowledge of underground environments and learn how to use them to improve conservation, management practices and methods of developing underground environments and heritage.
Core curriculum : appropriating knowledge of underground environments and their links with the outside (environment, uses, development), becoming familiar with the issues of heritage value assessment, management and development, mediation of underground environments and karst landscapes.
Specialties :
- « Tourism, mediation and interpretation of underground and karst landscapes ».
- « Conservation and management of underground environments and heritage ».
Targeted audience :
Agents of structures managing protected natural areas or touristic caves, supervisors and sports monitors, consultants and design offices dealing with underground environments.
Terms of Access :
Bac + 2 or equivalent and / or experience in the field of caves and underground environments – APEPL possible for candidates holding the bac (ALevel).

Licence Professionnelle « Guide conférencier »
Grenoble Alps University (CERMOSEM)
Training aimed at professionalizing those involved in guiding in touristic, cultural and heritage sites by acquiring tools and methods of mediation, as well as those involved in interpretation and museography. It gives access to the professional licence, necessary to guide in the museums of France, the national monuments and the Cities and Countries of Art and History.

Environment Teammate
Speleology French Federation
This training approaches the knowledge of underground environment and topography. The environment teammate is made of :
- a module about the legal environment knowledge about the practice of speleology in a protected natural area with the meeting of a partner network
- a fieldwork aiming at the documentation of a cavity and its heritage assessment. This works leans on knowledges in the areas of topography, karstology, geology, biospeleology, climatology, etc…

Master Geography (M1, M2) – M2 Geographies, Man-environment areas, resources (GEOSPHERES)
Savoie Mont Blanc University
Training focused on the place of research in the definition of environmental, sociocultural and territorial responses adapted to the context of current global change (climatic, economic, uses, etc.). It is part of a global approach to the current problems of knowledge of geosystems (mountain, karst, rural …) of integrated management and reasoned development. Anchored in the interdisciplinary synergies between environmental and territorial research/engineering, the course offers around thirty modules on current research concepts and on tools for acquiring and processing spatial data.
Duration : 1 year including an internship of 4 to 6 months in the EDYTEM laboratory
Access conditions : Master 1 in geography, environmental sciences, geosciences, human and social sciences, engineers in 3rd year of Ecole des Mines, continuing education (after validation of prior learning).
Access terms : BA, APEL, APEPL

Training of the guides of caves fitted out for tourism
The ANECAT (National Association of Operators of Caves Developed for Tourism)
The aim of this training is to increase the scientific culture of guides and operators by providing them with the knowledge necessary to build a presentation that is both scientifically rigorous and perfectly assimilated by visitors who will make them aware of prevention and conservation of underground heritage, whether natural or cultural. It also provides participants with means and techniques for group management, through work on group / content / space interactions.
Contact
A.N.E.C.A.T. – Maison de la Lozère – 4 rue Hautefeuille – 75006 Paris
Phone: 0033/(0)6 30 94 01 72
E-mail: contactanecat@gmail.com



Progress on rope level 2 (Module under development)
CREPS
Under the responsibility of a competent person, you can explore a cavity or a cliff on simple obstacles.
Targeted skills :
Name, position and adjust the individual equipment necessary to progress underground. Progress on varied situation (climbing, de-climbing). Identify a handrail and know how to move safely on it. Move on ropes when climbing and descending : identify a wellhead, put my descender and descend a small vertical, stop on a rope with a descender, cross a deviation on both the descent and the climb, cross a simple splitting on the descent as on the ascent. Manage my emotions related to progression techniques. Respect the environment in which I progress.
Targeted audience :
Agents of structures managing protected natural areas or touristic caves, students, higher education teachers, researchers, technicians from design offices.
Terms of Access :
Be able to justify an experience in progress on ropes in the last two years : level 3rd bat delivered by the FFS or the SNPSC or to have followed level 1. Regular sports practice.
Contacts :
Judicaël Arnaud – Ardèche Speleology Departmental Commitee : cds07@wanadoo.fr – 0033/(0)6.37.12.85.40
Vincent Rouyer – CREPS Auvergne Rhône-Alpes: vincent.rouyer@creps-rhonealpes.sports.gouv.fr – 0033/(0)4.75.88.45.50

Master Geography (M1, M2) – M2 – Tourism, mountains, territories (TMT)
Savoie Mont Blanc University
The master offers tools for reflection and analysis on the methods of tourism in mountain areas and remarkable natural areas. Through questions relating to the environment, spatial planning and the tourism space, the master mobilizes innovative research while offering applied dimensions.
Access conditions : The M2 is open to candidates who have validated a 1st year of a national diploma conferring the master’s degree or a 1st year of a second cycle diploma approved by the State if it corresponds to the level of required studies as well as to candidates who benefit from a validation of acquired knowledge.

Professional BA Degree “Protection and enhancement of the historical and cultural heritage specialty Designer of Heritage Touristic Products »
Grenoble Alps University (CERMOSEM)
Training to learn to inventory the heritage, natural and cultural capital of a territory in order to define touristic products adapted to the requirements of the territory, the economy and customers. Thus, it allows holders to collaborate in the creation, evaluation, development and promotion of complete touristic packages.