Empowerment of VET system through sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives in quality pig breeding Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowerment of VET system through sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives in quality pig breeding

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; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The project “Promoting empowerment of VET system through sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives in quality pig breeding” (BREED) will offer to to VET learners the learning opportunity to confront a sustainable business in quality pig breeding. The project is promoted by expert partners in the European countries Italy, Poland, Greece, Portugal and Lithuania proposes outdoor quality pig breeding as area for sustainable VET entrepreneurial initiatives.
Pig farming in Europe has to face three major challenges of sustainability: economic, social and environmental.
Th BREED project addresses aspects of all these three areas of sustainability, as a basis to improve productivity and competitiveness of pig production systems as well as environmental sustainability, and to enhance consumer acceptability by addressing animal welfare and product quality. Pig breeding is suitable for VET also for other aspects. Despite the importance of economic aspects, pig breeding requires nowadays high quality work, good job satisfaction and a positive image of livestock production. These sectoral requirements of quality fully match with the identified target of quality VET work as lever for the improvement of VET system.
The project BREED aims at fostering the resilience of the pig industry from local to European level, by training new and existing breeders, via an integrated action addressing all the three pillar of sustainability (animal welfare, profitability and environmental impact) equally in an inter- and transdisciplinary approach. The action proposed will furthermore promote empowerment through the integrated and multidisciplinary method, fully exploiting the possibilities offered by the digital area and the socials, hence sharing and participation.

The BREED intellectual outputs will be:
O1 Guide to quality pig breeding for VET trainers
O2 OER BREED VET toolkit for sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives in quality pig breeding
O3 BREED motivation guide to quality pig breeding
O4 BREED community

BREED events will be the following:

National multiplier events
E1 BREED Seminar in Bologna (Northen Italy), organized by DINAMICA
E2 BREED Seminar in Assergi – L’Aquila (Central Italy), organized by PNGSL
E3 BREED Seminar in Varsavia (Poland), organized by SGGW
E4 BREED Seminar in Volos (Greece), organized by UTH
E5 BREED Seminar in Reggio Emilia (Italy), organized by IIAZ
E6 BREED Seminar in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal), organized by EPRALIMA
E7 BREED Seminar in Šiaulia (Lithuania), organized by MBITES

Conferences
E8 Mid-term conference in Volos (Greece), organized by UTH
E9 Mid-term international conference in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
E10 International final conference in Assergi – L’Aquila (Italy)

Mobility learning activities
C1 Quality pig breeding techniques in Northern Italy
C2 Quality pig breeding techniques in Poland
C3 Quality pig breeding techniques in Central Italy
C4 Quality pig breeding techniques in Greece

BREED transnational project meetings (TPM)
Kick-off meeting, organized by DINAMICA in Bologna (Italy);
TM2, organized by SGGW in Varsavia (Poland)
TM3, organized by MBITES in Šiaulia (Lithuania)
TM4, organized by UTH in Volos (Greece)
TM5 organized by EPRALIMA in Arcos de Valdevez (Portugal)
TM6, organized by P1 PNGSL in Assergi – L’Aquila (Italy)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 386139 Eur

Project Coordinator

DINAMICA SCRL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Asociacija MINTIES BITES
• PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS
• EPRALIMA – ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL DOALTO LIMA – COOPERATIVA DE INTERESSE PUBLICO E RESPONSABILIDADE LIMITADA
• ENTE PARCO NAZIONALE DEL GRAN SASSOE MONTI DELLA LAGA
• SZKOLA GLOWNA GOSPODARSTWA WIEJSKIEGO
• Istuituo di istruzione superiore”Antonio Zanelli”