The research agenda contains research requests from PAN Parks partners and from the PAN Parks Foundation. The PAN Parks partners are tour operators, accommodation facilities, guides, restaurants, adventure companies, protected areas and local communities around parks. Some of the research proposals are scientific, others are practical; some are related to tourism, some to marketing or conservation. The agenda continuously changes. Most of the subjects are worked out by students or volunteers.

One of the first projects is the assessment of training needs of protected areas supported by the Glion Institute for Higher Education (www.glion.ch,  www.les-roches.ch). In Certified PAN Parks, and in local businesses around these parks, the training needs for tourism development are analysed. Based on the results a training programme will be developed for representatives of local businesses. A train-the-trainers approach will be used to transmit the knowledge to all local companies involved.

If you have an interesting research idea then contact us at mdonk@panparks.org but please note:
- The Research Network is demand driven. This means that it executes researches that the Foundation and its partners find necessary. 
-  The suggested subject might be executed by one of the Research Network members (the Research Network might have a related report available or tries to make it a student research).
- If the subject is highly interesting, we might try to obtain funding for the project.
- If the subject has no direct link to the Foundation's work or related subjects, it will be pending until we have found an opportunity to do the research.