Green Shores Training Certificate is a certificate in Sustainable Development programme offered by University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 670 per total (CAD 670 per total for local students).
Green Shores Training teaches shoreline protection that works with coastal ecology instead of relying on hard structures such as seawalls. Delivered as one- and two-day face-to-face workshops sponsored by the Stewardship Centre for BC, the training covers the rationale and benefits of the Green Shores approach, shoreline ecology, the governance context, and the program's credit and rating systems, with site visits to local shorelines. Level 1 is aimed at a general audience of elected officials, landowners, municipal staff, conservation organizations and real estate agents; Level 2, which requires Level 1 first, targets practitioners such as biologists, engineers, planners, landscape architects, contractors and local and regional government staff applying Green Shores on real projects. Participants receive a non-credit Certificate of Participation.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The Level 1 workshop is introductory with no stated prerequisites, aimed at elected officials, landowners, municipal staff, conservation organizations and real estate agents. The Level 2 workshop is aimed at practitioners such as biologists, engineers, planners, landscape architects, contractors, and local or regional government staff, and requires completion of the Level 1 workshop as a prerequisite.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC, which opens for 2027-entry applications on 1 October 2026: most degree programmes see September 2027 entry close 31 January 2027, January 2027 entry close 30 September 2026, and Summer 2027 entry close 31 March 2027, though Teacher Education post-degree programmes close 2 January 2027, Indigenous Education post-degree admits on an ongoing basis, and Engineering's Summer entry (high-school graduates only) closes 31 December 2026. International applicants use the same portal and face identical dates, since UVic publishes no separate international deadline. UVic treats these as fixed annual dates rather than rolling admission, though it warns any programme can close early without notice. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
