Vocational Itinerary in Training and Education in Agriculture VITiculture and Education for All types of learners Vocational Itinerary in Training and Education in Agriculture Erasmus Project

Project Title

Vocational Itinerary in Training and Education in Agriculture
VITiculture and Education for All types of learners
Vocational Itinerary in Training and Education in Agriculture

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

VITEA educative project (2015-2017) focused on vine pruning : core business activity of wine grower’s job. The competent vine pruner is able to realise the whole jobs in the vineyard. European employers are short of competent vine pruners because workers sulk a saisonnal and bad-paied job. The goal of VITEA is to improve vine pruners’ competences to satisfy employers and to ensure to workers a stabilized employement and a better income.

VITEA gathered 7 wine-growing European countries : European service providers in vine pruning of 2 countries (IT, FR) , vocational training organizations of 8 countries (AT, ESP, FR,2 HU,PT, IT, SLO) and a regional certificative institution (ESP).

Partners of the project have applied ECVET approach of permanent progress to validate acquired skills whatever is the training followed. ECVET allowed them :
– To define the tasks of 2 types of vine pruners corresponding to levels 3 and 4 of the “European Qualification Framework” for Vine Pruner and Advanced pruner,
– To determinate skills to implement based on abilities to master from knowledges component the 2 units of learning outcomes,
– To build the 2 assessment grids of competences with criterias and indicators,
– To experiment the 2 repositories of assessment during 2 vine pruning sessions
– To make the operational guide of the project.

The 5 transnational meetings aimed at approving works realised, to forecast and trigger the work to be done for the next deadline.
The 3 training activities allowed to the partners to get trained in ECVET and to test and practise the learners’ assessments by using the tools created. Those tools constitue the results O of the poject and are composed of :
ECVET assessment repositories (O1) for the 2 levels of vine pruners
The implementation of ECVET in the vine-pruning training (O2)
The VITEA operational guide (O4).

To which is added the reflection on the experiemental process of professional and institutional recognition of vine-pruning training (O3) to continue with ECVET on the road to professional certification.

Those 4 results have been disseminated during 4 multiplier events E of VITEA project to target audiences :
– E1 promoted O1 to the local and regional educational community
– E2 presented O2 during the « Seminar of the network of European wine schools”
– E3 took advantage of the « Congress of Innovation in Vocational Training FP Innova” to present O3 to the vocational training partners and professionals in the wine sector and the green sector
– E4 took advantage of the “VINEXPO International Show” to present its “VITEA Project Operational Guide” O4 to winemakers and their organizations.
Other dissemination of the results targeted the green sector (EUROPEA associations), the educational administrations and the Erasmus + Agency of the coordinating country. The communication mainly used internet (project websites, partners, international EUROPEA, our central administration …), press conferences and newspaper articles.

The use of VITEA results is planned and sometimes started in partner schools and adapted sector companies. It is also expected soon in other wine schools thanks to the dissemination and direct training started by some of the partners and in the green sector thanks to the relay provided by the association EUROPEA International. This is the best guarantee of the sustainability of VITEA’s results in the immediate future.

The receptivity to our results of wine organizations and certification insitutions inclines us to think that their inescapable involvement to go towards the professional certification of the vine pruning activity should not pose a problem and to perpetuate in the long term the results of VITEA.
The motivation of companies in the adapted sector opens up a perspective on the use and sustainability of the VITEA results initially unconsidered, and confirms ECVET’s logic of continuous progress for all types of learners throughout life.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 277560,9 Eur

Project Coordinator

ETABLISSEMENT PUBLIC LOCAL ENSEIGNEMENT FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE AGRICOLES DU PERIGORD & Country: FR

Project Partners

• I.S.I.S.S. “G.B. CERLETTI”
• FM Dunantuli Agrar-szakkepzö Központ, Csapo Daniel Mezögazdasagi Szakgimnazium, Szakközepiskola es Kollegium
• Prestations Viti Vinicoles BANTON LAURET
• CONSELLERIA DE CULTURA, EDUCACION E ORDENACION UNIVERSITARIA
• Grm Novo mesto – center biotehnike in turizma
• EPA Carvalhais
• Progetto Agricoltura s.r.l.