“Anyone can get a ticket on the FARMTrain”The main objective of this project is to create an innovative hands-on training program for adult learners (FARMTrain) in order to accept shared responsibility to keep our rural-urban areas connected and alive in a sustainable way. The hands-on training provides mentoring and educational opportunities directly on the farm level between farmers and interns on training farms. FARMTrain will be open to anyone regardless of their different backgrounds and education. The range of composition of production enterprises as well as geographical distribution play important roles in developing proper training and educational capacities - these programs must be adequate for adult learners delivering practical, useful, hands-on knowledge. It is emphasised here because most of the trainings or advisory services in European countries are very theoretical; there is often a “reality gap” between trainers and learners. The different, innovative approach in FARMTrain program is the practical guidance on how to build the internship on farms and how to transfer farmer’s knowledge to adult learners (interns). The novelty of this training program lies in its content - it teaches farmers how to gain competences to become mentors - to improve their soft skills in interaction with interns and vice versa interns are motivated to have shared responsibility for agroecological systems and environmental protection in general. The innovation of the project lies also in its scope as it does not focus solely on professionals but it also involves exchange of knowledge between professionals and other stakeholders such as hobby farmers, community or urban gardeners. The structure of the innovative hands-on training program for adult learners (FARMTrain) is based on an European universal program which will be compile by the intellectual outputs of this project. The national modifications of FARMTrain program will allow adjusting the program to the exact needs of the target groups both in partner countries and also in countries not involved in this partnership. It provides the knowledge and skills on how to establish a new way of cooperation with different types of stakeholders, how to transfer the skills among adult learners on training farms, on hands-on learning and on training seminars to create more opportunities to learn shared responsibilities. Altogether, the project will support the educational innovation in farming sector and beyond, as it will teach farmers to become well-educated mentors with competences in the exchange of good practices. It is aimed at producing, sharing and enriching resources for interns (both general and technical) about farming skills and environmental protection within the agro-ecosystem towards various groups of stakeholders.We also anticipate that the national FARMTrain program will launch up the increase in number of training farms not only in countries of this partnership but Europe-wide. This added value will not only support the development of other training farms and their networking on FARMTrain Platform. FARMTrain program can be a useful aid in long-life adult education and training, as well as an inspiration in setting up new cooperatives and creative farmer associations. The network of training farms with an innovative, hands-on program (FARMTrain) can be very resilient as it has developed from a serious need and with strong participation of farmers. We want the FARMTrain program to be socially inclusive and open for a broad scale of adult learners to join the program in the future.

The ICT project for women in rural areas is born from a partnership results of four NGOs: AgriNatura Foundation from Poland, Kisleptek from Hungary, AMA Centar from Serbia and EcoRuralis from Romania.The main objective of this project is the exchange of good practices between partners involved in educational activities in rural areas. The target group are women - rural areas inhabitants, very often lacking basic computer or Internet skills.The lack of these basic skills in the 21st century results in a specific social exclusion (digital exclusion). The project partners have clearly identified the need to educate this weaker and defavourised social group in order to bridge a growing gap between those more educated and those lacking the basic ICT skills. The project duration is planned for two years, with four international meetings, one in every partner country. The project includes local worshops carried out by each partner, on the topics of ICT education program in the field of the computer use, Internet, social media, the web security and the resources. An important element of the workshops will be to adapt the content to the local specifics and each partner activities. Some of this topics are: Internet and rural tourism, sales through Internet of local products (like Community Supported Agriculture systems) or seed exchange platform. The project results will include: 4 newsletters informing about 4 international meetings and the ICT Vademecum - guidelines for rural women developed by the partners. The guidelines will include:- a short computer course: Internet and social media usage- how to search for the information, security on the web- ICT is the key to the world: ubiquitous digitalization- Internet platforms: how to search an offer, how to place an offer, the seed swaps, how to sell a local product.All results will be available on the partners' websites in the national and English languages. The results will also be uploaded to the Erasmus + Project Results Platform. The project will have a wide reach and anyone interested in this topics will have the opportunity to use the developed materials.

"P2P Agroecology: Developing peasant agroecology through training and exchange of practices This project was initiated in a context that is still relevant today, the context of a European agricultural model in need of profound transformation: employment in agriculture is constantly decreasing, the use of pesticides has led to an explosion in the number of chronic diseases, and European agriculture emits more than 400 million tons of CO2eq each year. The urgency to change course has even deepened since the beginning of the project. This context reinforces the relevance of such a partnership, which has worked to develop a training tool for peasant agroecology. The objectives of this project were:- to develop peasant agroecology in Europe through training and the exchange of practices between peasants; - to train in a global approach to peasant agroecology and to understand the political issues that condition its development;- to propose training in specific aspects of agroecology: farm transferability, dynamic management of farmed and cultivated biodiversity, technological autonomy and food autonomy in livestock farming. - to develop and disseminate a training referential document that can be adapted in the different European countries to facilitate and encourage the implementation of training in peasant-based agroecology;The initial architecture of the project was to be based on five thematic training seminars: ""Introduction to the diagnosis of peasant agroecology at the farm level"", ""Farm transferability"", ""Dynamic management of livestock and cultivated biodiversity"", ""Technological autonomy"" and ""Local development"". However, the health crisis that has shaken Europe since the beginning of 2020 forced the postponement and then the cancellation of 3 seminars out of the 5 initially planned. Only the first two activities could therefore be carried out. The participants were peasants who were members of the partner organisations and involved in the exchange of agro-ecological practices. In all, about 50 participants were able to take part in this project, about 30 per training activity, some of whom participated in both activities. However, the benefits of the project will benefit to a much wider audience. The first seminar ""Introduction to the diagnosis of peasant agroecology at farm level"" brought together 31 learners from the 6 member organisations for 3 days in February 2019 in Durango, Spain. These three days of training combined theoretical and practical training on peasant agro-ecology: presentation of the history and main principles, training on how to carry out a diagnosis on a farm scale, how to conduct an interview, practical application on five farms in the region, restitution of the results and analysis, collective reflection on ways to improve the farms diagnosed.The second seminar ""Farm transferability"" brought together 29 learners from the 6 member organisations for 3 days in October 2019 in Tilff, Belgium. These three days of training allowed for an in-depth study of the issues, obstacles and levers of farm transfer and generational renewal in agriculture: analysis of the different European contexts, analysis of concrete examples on farms in the territory, presentation of existing diagnostic and transfer support tools and practical application.The main deliverable is a training framework for peasant agroecology entitled ""Promoting Peasant Agroecology"", which has been distributed to European peasant organisations and which they can now easily use to set up peasant agroecology training and practice exchanges. The learners who participated directly in the project have become more competent in the topics addressed and are now able to develop thematic training on the various aspects of peasant agroecology dealt with in this project. The hoped-for result in the medium term is the appropriation by farmers' organisations, agricultural training organisations and popular education organisations of the content of the training reference framework in order to build new training courses or enrich existing ones. The member organisations of the partnership have already started this work. In the long term, the project should enable a growing number of farmers to master the issues and practices of peasant agro-ecology through training and to participate in the development of a political framework that will allow its generalisation. Farmers' agroecology will progress in Europe and will benefit all European citizens: beneficial effects on employment, health, the environment and the living environment."

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The horizontal objective of the project is to foster the social and educational value of European cultural heritage within its contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion. The main field of the project is short food supply chain (SFSC) development which is one of the most relevant factors as well as a tool of European food cultural heritage maintenance. However, researches in recent years, as well as surveys of producers and consumers, have highlighted the problem that small producers have difficulties separately, so they need to work together to gain market access. Intermediate players have taken over some of these activities from producers. These are supply chain organizers who understand market and agricultural processes thus helping farmers to gain market access. Experts agreed that it is necessary to start a special SFSC organizer training and to develop special eligibility conditions, as well as the training of SFSC advisers, however, these development and support directions are still missing in practice.Therefore the partnership is committed to explore the possible ways on how to generate the position of a so-called Rural facilitator and to develop the necessary learning materials and training tools to train individuals who intend to take under this new profession in their career. The outcomes of the project will provide an innovative teaching approach where organisers can partake from capacity building which will strong economic impact on successful value chain organisation and rural employment development.The target group of the project:Organizers/animators potentially involved: resuming intellectual women; Employees of LEADER organizations; already existing market organizers; rural development NGO; restaurant suppliers; rural tourism organizers/providers, producers and restarters in rural areas.General objectives of the project:To map problems, necessary competencies and existing practices in the field, to survey on the required competencies of the potential rural facilitators. Based on the mapped hiatus and the targeted competencies, the project will build up a training material, a curriculum and will conduct pilot test phases, whose basis will be laid in the frame of a joint staff meeting. The project will compile and use all those knowledge bases and competencies of partners which can be channelled into this specific field and exploit them to social innovation by ways of adapting them to the material as well as passing on capacity building knowledge.Partnership:-The members of the partnership are all related actors of the agricultural sector but with various focuses and expertise. The consortium contains a university, a farmer representation body, National Union of Small Farmers and Service providers, a stakeholder for autonomous groups in agriculture and a regional development body, and a training centre.Activities of the project:1. The essence of the project is to assess the current real demand for competencies to be acquired (competence needs research in partnership): e.g. organizational skills, legislation, food safety, processing, marketing, logistics, communication (IO1- SOTA and Competence catalogue)2. Subsequently, the project partners will find out what rural development and business conditions are needed for these qualified specialists to be employed and earn their wages on a market basis (IO2-BUSINESS ROADMAP PREPARATION).3. Depending on local needs and capabilities, project partners prepare a joint learning material by integrating the adaptable points of the already existing knowledge basis (IO3-HANDBOOK)4. Channelling their knowledge from similar fields into our training, the French partner performs a Joint Staff Training (training of trainers). (Part of IO3)5. Based on the Handbook and results of IO1, pilot trainings will be implemented involving trainers who gained knowledge through the joint staff training. A curriculum and supplementing training tools will be elaborated (IO4- Curriculum and course)6. Multiplier events are foreseen to spread the results of the project in each country towards the end of the project. (Part of IO4) Main project results are· identifying rural facilitators in the partner countries· studying the necessary knowledge, competencies and circumstances of rural facilitators· enhancing social innovation by developing new curricula and handbook· fostering European food rural heritage due to small farming development· decreasing unemployment in rural areas· supporting access to healthy and trust foods for consumers.Partners will ensure the availability of project results for at least 5 years and will focus their efforts and means in order to, after the project completion, mainstream and multiply results, by creating handbooks and curricula in their countries and Europe.