Enseigner à produire autrement sur les territoires Transition vers l’agro-écologie et conséquences pour les systèmes de formation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enseigner à produire autrement sur les territoires
Transition vers l’agro-écologie et conséquences pour les systèmes de formation

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: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Environment and climate change; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

Project context:
The Europe 2020 strategy which was initiated in 2010 aims, among other things, at promoting a sustainable growth and therefore at protecting the environment and natural resources such as soil, water and biodiversity.
The Common Agricultural Policy induces technical and organizational changes for farms in order to lead farmers to agroecological practices.
Regarding the trainings, the agroecological transition will rest on the capacity of the European educational systems to adjust to the innovations arising from research and development as well as from farmers practices and to diffuse them to bring about the necessary changes in curricula,
teaching methods and pedagogical practices. Agro-ecology cannot be taught any longer on the basis of traditional teaching methods, it rests on systemic, multidisciplinary approaches as well as on observation, experimentation, demonstration and field case studies.
The ambition of this project is to bring its contribution, in the field of training and education, to the Europe 2020 Strategy as well as
to the CAP orientations and to respond to the new professional training needs implied by the agro-ecological transition. It also aims at introducing a greater coherence among the various European countries in their efforts to enhance agro-ecological competences for students and farmers.

Project objectives:
The project objectives were :
– to upgrade the agricultural training systems and the quality of the training itself
– to transfer and enhance the implementation of innovative practices
– to reinforce the capacity of the various partners to work in an international cooperation environment

Partner organizations:
The project coordinator, CEZ- Bergerie nationale gathered four partners around this project all come from the world of academia in Lithuania, Slovenia, Italy and Austria. They all carry out research and/or experimentation activities in the field of agro-ecology and have a great
experience of field work with farmers as well as class room or lab work. The original feature of the consortium rests also on its diversity : two national teaching institutions, two universities and one observatory.

Main activities carried out:
The project has been broken down into 4 different phases :
Phase 1 : Inventory and comparative analysis of the various approaches to agro ecology
Phase 2 : Inventory and synthesis of the agro ecological innovations highlighted by the field case studies
Phase 3 : Development and finalization of pedagogical tools
Phase 4 : Communication (diffusion and dissemination) and evaluation of the project
During these four phases, 5 intellectual productions, 5 transnational meetings, 1 training of trainers and 5 disseminating events took place.
Two types of intellectual productions
– 2 reports and/or syntheses (language: English)
. Inventory and comparative and critical analysis of the various national approaches to agro ecology
. Study of innovations and changes implied by the implementation of agro ecology based on 15 field case-studies (3 per partner and/or country).
3 educational tools:
– E-learning development tools : quiz
– Audio-visual materials : Agroecology : Various approches in Europe
– Written materials : Handbook of modules for study course agroecology

Communication events took place during the 3 years but more specifically at the end of the project when disseminating events have been organized in Italy, Slovenia, Austria and France.

Project results and impact
The project has a systemic and sustainable impact that have been followed during the project but also the following years.
In the short run, concrete examples from the different countries will inform the target groups about the innovative practices.
In the long run, we seek:
– an appropriation by the educationnal community of the new teaching practices , once they have been tested successfully
– an appropriation by farmers and various professionals of new agricultural practices which foster the agro-ecological transition.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 282588 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centre d’Enseignement Zootechnique & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU
• Programos “Leader” ir zemdirbiu mokymo metodikos centras
• Osservatorio Europeo del Paesaggio
• UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN