The Directorate of Curonian spit National Park is a budgetary governmental organisation. 65 full-staff persons work in the park.
The objectives of the park are:

• to preserve natural heritage in the Curonian Spit;
• to preserve its cultural heritage and encourage traditional architecture;
• to control economic and urban development;
• to perform scientific research and monitoring;
• to organise environmental education;
• to develop cognitive recreation;
• to collect and store data about the conservation of the natural and cultural heritage;
• to promote natural and cultural values of the Curonian Spit.

Park provides activities in the sphere of:

• Forestry
• Nature and culture heritage
• Information dessimination
• Visitors management

The target groups park works with are:

• Visitors of the Park
• Local community
• Local entrepreneurs
• Local authorities

KNNP was founded in 1991 in order to keep, maintain and manage the complex of cultural landscape, with it‘s dune crest, unique in Europe and its ethnic – cultural heritage.
In the year 2000, the Curonian Spit (the Russian and Lithuanian parts) was included into the Unesco world heritage list as cultural landscape treasure. The area of the National Park – 26464 ha.

The structure of Curonian spit national park consist of these stuctural departments:
1.Nature and culture heritage department
a.Nature and culture heritage division
b.Visitor center
2.Forestry department
a.Smiltyne forestry office
b.Juodkrante forestry office
c.Preila forestry office
d.Nida forestry office
Curonian Spit NP team consists of different specialist: ecologists, biologists, foresters, environmental education specialists, culture specialist, landscape designer specialists.

There 5 small settlements on the territory of Park: Smiltyne, Nida, Juodkrante, Preila and Pervalka. All together they make administrative unit by name Neringa. Curonian Spit National Park is a place for family holiday, recreation activity, not for people, who prefer noisy discos and dancing. The place is calm, homelike and charming. There are beautiful beaches, forests, dunes and places of cultural interest. Curonian Spit is a peninsula in the Baltic Sea, which belongs to Russia and Lithuania. All part of peninsula in Lithuania is a territory of Curonian Spit National Park. It is the end of peninsula so, if you will be in Lithuania, you can arrive here only by ferry from Klaipeda city. The journey takes 15 min. There are no noisy highways, railway stations, municipal transport like in other cities and towns. In 2000 the Curonian Spit was inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were small fishing villages and were practically known only in Lithuania and other former Soviet Union countries. Today the tourists can visit the ethnographical museums and get acquainted with the way of life of fishers that lived here a hundred years ago, hear history about old villages buried by sand.
Curonian spit NP is one of the most popular destinations in Lithuania for local and foreign tourist.
Most of the local older people in Neringa are speaking in Lithuanian and Russian, younger people prefer English. Specialists of the park speak Lithuanian, Russian. Most of them are fluent in English too. In Klaipeda city it is easy to communicate in English, and the Tourist Information Centre locates not far from the ferry in beautiful old part of the city. The old part of the city is the centre of museums and galleries. There are many pubs, vine-bars, and other places of relaxation.
Living standards in Lithuania are rather high for most Lithuanian people and for people from Eastern Europe. But during time of economic crisis the prices of property rent, food and most kind of service sector were cutting down.
Accomodation for volunteers will be organised in Klaipeda, so volunteer have to note that he/she will be going everyday to NP by ferry. Klaipeda city the third large city in Lithuania. Klaipeda city was chosen because of better transport organisation along Curonian spit national park (park staff starts from Klaipeda) and better volunteers adaptation point.

New knowledges:

All volunteering activities starts from brief learning classes about national park:
1.History and formation of Curonian spit
2.Nature and culture heritage of Curonian spit
3.Visitors management on Curonian spit
4.Nature monitoring on Curonian spit

All the volunteering activities proposed of Curonian spit national park requires some specific knowledge those could be gained very quickly during practical tasks:
1.Practical acquainting with park territory, environment, nature and cultural heritage;
2.Learning methodology of biodiversity monitoring
3.Studying methodology on visitors monitoring (counting, preparing questionnaires etc.)

Learn or develop a new skill: 

• Informally learn Lithuanian language
• Spacial skills on monitoring biodiversity
• Improving communication skills during assisting guided tours
• Gaining/improving group leading skills

Be part of community
Participating in organising educational events for local community
Participating in organising environmental events for park visitors
On own initiative organising cultural/environmental/educational events

New interests and hobbies
Park staff truly believe that volunteer would like organising/participating in local art and culture events (simposium of reed sculptures, folclor festival, pleners etc.)
Someone who is intrested in photography and someone who not, but want to try it – will find here one of the most exciting and valuable activities – photohunting.
There is possibility for the volunteer also to create new self initiative activities in the Park.
The activities are organised to perform:
Independently;
In command with workers and specialists of the park;
Joining to pupils, members of enterprises, other members of community.