START UP BIO Erasmus Project

Project Title

START UP BIO

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

For over 10 years now, the sector of organic agriculture has been continuously growing and its increase will reach in Europe , within 2018, over then 13,5 Milion HA, cultivated by organic systems. (IFOAM Data 2017).
It is in this dynamic context that the PROJECTSTART UP BIO aims at supporting and facilitating transition and innovation processes of rural enterprises, accompanying them to coversion, from a traditional production to an organic production one, offering to the prior targets (youngsters interested in becoming biofarmer and enterpreneurs interested in adopting bioagriculture) high quality taining opportunities, promoting ICT-based learning (self-tutorial and e-learning paths) .In fact, one of the key ssumptions of the project is that new well trained farmers could be the agents for chenage managment bprocesses in the agricultural sector, actively participating as ambassadors in dissemination of a culture of organic production and sustainable development.
Digital training will be integrated with consultancy services provided to the targets by the new Europen virtual Bio Incubator, that will be design and implemented by the partnership and embedded within the accompanying service provided on the field by each partner in its own local/regional context.

The expected number of trained biofarmers will be 80 operators for each country (IT, HL, ES, PT), for a total of n, 320 operators. For recruitment, assessment and selection an Europen Open Call will be launched at M12. Thanks to the project’s implementation, the expected number of start up bio will be almost 10 “new enterprieses” and almost n. 100 converted companies.
IOs will be the following:

1 -DIDACTIC DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR VIRAL TRAINING IN BIOAGRICULTURE;
2- INNOVATIVE TRAINING PATHS FOR NEW BIOFARMERS;
3- EUROPEAN VIRTUAL INCUBATOR FOR BIOAGRICULTURE

The by the partnership expected impacts wiil be strong both for prior targets, for partners themselves, for relevant stakeholders, and at local as well as regional national and European level; in details:
– Reinforcement of business-education partnerships for testing of innovative training services for professional qualification of biofarmers;
– Supporting the development of sustainable agriculture following a “CSR” approach ;
– Dissemination of a Culture of Organic Agriculture in order to create a European biofarmers’ community of practice;
– Dissemination of knowledge for supporting correct trantion processes from convetional to bio agriculture;
– Development of innovative training mehodologies and tools for innovation of education connected to agriculture;
– Activation of multi-stakeholder network for deveopment of projects and inititives for sustainable and glocal development and economic growth;
– Reinforcement of a Mediterranean Rural Identity through diffusion of organic agriculture.

Project Website

https://startupbio.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297164,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTOFORM SRL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FEDERBIO SERVIZI SRL
• VALOR ECOLOGICO CAAE
• FiBL Europe – Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau in Europa
• ACADEMY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASTIKI ETAIREIA
• AGROBIO – Associação Portuguesa de Agricultura Biológica