Création et dissémination de e-ressources partagées pour les formateurs et les enseignants du secteur forestier et leurs publics Erasmus Project

Project Title

Création et dissémination de e-ressources partagées pour les formateurs et les enseignants du secteur forestier et leurs publics

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

Background information
The forest owners’ profiles and practices are nowadays in full evolution, all over Europe: how to meet their needs, thanks to the new information and communication technologies? This is the key question that structured a first eforOwn project (2012-2014), and revealed that these owners expect simple, attractive and modern self-training tools; in the same time, the trainers and teachers wanted to see their pedagogical approaches evolve and use the same type of tools to support their tasks. It is in this context that the eforOwn+ project was born.

Objectives of the project
The main objective of eforOwn+ was to provide forest owners in France, Belgium and Spain with free access to educational resources on the Internet. These resources were intended to be and were designed to also serve the needs of forestry students, as well as teachers and trainers who wish to integrate them into their technical and pedagogical practices.
Number and profile of participating organizations
Seven organisations were involved in eforOwn+, two in Spain, two in Belgium and three in France: in each country one forest development organisation and one educational institution were partners ; in France was also added as partner a public organisation in charge of e learning in the agriculture and forestry sector, that supported the whole partnership, on pedagogical and editorial engineering issues.

Description of the main activities implemented
The main activity of eforOwn+ has been the production of educational resources: slideshows, fact sheets and videos for three levels – or their equivalent at the European level: A (novice owner, level 4- upper secondary), B (intermediate owner, level 5 – bachelor) and C (expert owner, level 6 university). Of the 85 resources planned, 75 have been produced and are available on line, accessible to all on the the project partners’websites . These resources include 28 slideshows, 39 fact sheets and 8 videos. The list of resources evolved during the project in order to best meet the target audience’ expectations and to avoid redundancies between several resources. Of the 75 resources, 69 are available in French, 23 in Spanish and 10 in Catalan (as of 23.07.2019, Rosa’s translations are missing, see with her what she can do by 1 September). Two resources are also available in English to allow for a wider dissemination and to interest future partners in joining the project.

Results and impacts achieved
At local, regional and national level, the impact for the beneficiary audiences is essentially, for forest owners, a better appropriation of the knowledge and know-how necessary for the implementation of sustainable forest management, and, for students in the forest sector, the improvement of their learning and future professional practices; for the target audiences (trainers and teachers), the improvement of skills in the design and use of distance resources.

Long-term benefits
The “eforOwn” brand has been registered with the European certification body EUIPO and is awaiting validation (approximate date of registration and publication of the brand: 10/10/2019). A post-program charter has been drafted and signed by all partners in the eforOwn+ project. This charter sets out the post-programme action modalities ensuring the long-term anchoring of the partnership, as well as the common process of production and dissemination of resources: the resources produced during eforOwn+ will be monitored to be regularly updated; new resources may be produced and will benefit from the eforOwn brand, following the decisions of the eforOwn Liaison Committee which will meet once a year. Other partners may join the Liaison Committee and use the brand, in accordance with the terms specified in the post-program charter and following the decisions of the Committee members.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 447761,81 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA PROPRIETE FORESTIERE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Institut d’Horticultura i Jardineria
• CONSORCI CENTRE DE CIENCIA I TECNOLOGIA FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA
• Société Royale Forestière de Belgique
• Haute Ecole Provinciale de Hainaut – Condorcet
• INSTITUT NATIONAL SUPERIEUR DES SCIENCES AGRONOMIQUES DE L’ALIMENTATION ET DE L’ENVIRONEMENT
• EPLEFPA des Vosges