Farming concepts and innovative funding/ financing Erasmus Project

Project Title

Farming concepts and innovative funding/ financing

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; Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Agricultural markets and farming business changed considerably over recent decades. EU Farmers are facing a need to improve their economic and socio-economic situation.

From entrepreneurial view financing is an important task for the farmer besides production and marketing. Decisions in financing – may it be “traditional” or innovative – have long term influence on the farm, its liquidity and its income.
Especially for young farmers taking over the business of their parents or simply aiming at business development it is very important to have a solid financial basis for their agricultural businesses.
Financing affects the sustainability of the single farm (together with effects on and importance for income security) as well as it addresses sustainable development of rural areas as a whole.

Innovative financing exists on niche level, but a lot of possibilities are not widely known. To make good decisions in the field of innovative financing farmers need to be equipped with more skills, knowledge and competence, and with experience from successful practice.

It is a huge challenge for the farmers to:
(1) Keep the business running in a profitable & sustainable way.
(2) Respect societal demands towards agricultural production which are increasing constantly.
(3) Get financed in adequate and sufficient dimension.

There are possibilities to fulfill all 3 aspects at the same time.

With FARMINFIN project, we aim at developing a training programme that is going to equip farmers with the needed competences for the implementation of innovative financing means tailored adequately for his own farm, entrepreneurial approach and personal circumstances.

In addition to this, we also aim at reaching the following objectives:
– Foster professional handling of innovative financing means by farmers.
– Strengthen economic and socio-economic viability of family farms.
– Deliver added value to rural development.

These objectives will be achieved by providing to young farmers a training programme based on the OER approach and on case studies about sustainable and innovative financing ways for farming sector enterprises.

The training system will be made of:

– A guide about alternative ways of financing in the farming sector.
– A set of 12 case studies gathering best practices related to alternative ways of financing in the farming sector in the involved countries;
– Training curriculum and training modules providing the knowledge needed to successfully implement a sustainable business initiative in the farming sector.

The training materials (in English, Swedish, Czech, German, Spanish, Italian and French) will be fully available free of charges on the project training platform and will be also uploaded on OER repositories (such as www.oercommons.org) making them available to an even wider audience.

The FARMINFIN consortium is made of the following partners:

CEJA (BE): CEJA is the voice of Europe’s next generation of farmers, representing some 2 million young people through a membership comprised of 32 recognized national member organizations in 23 EU member states and an associate member organisation from Serbia.
HuL (DE): HuL is an independent private body focused on agricultural family enterprises. HuL is consulting in Germany in all types of agricultural business: crop cultivation as well as animal husbandry, production and processing of biomass for food and feed as well as for energetic or industrial purposes.
OnP (ES): OnP is a consulting enterprise specialized in project managing, monitoring and evaluation. Its staff has a wide experience in ERASMUS+ projects and in the development of VET materials in the farming and rural development sector.
FU (SE): FU is an adult educational association that offers a wide range of adult education all over Sweden. FU has a broad open educational program in a variety of subjects; it also runs schools in higher vocational education, labour market education and further education and training for working life.
AèV (IT): AèV is a Vocational Training Centre. Its main objectives are: to promote and stimulate the social-cultural and civic development and training, at any level, of all the citizens, and more specifically farmers, in many economic and social sectors (agriculture, food industry, administrative and advanced services).
APF_CR (CZ): APF_CR is a voluntary professional organization of private farmers in the Czech Republic. Defending the economic, social and professional intents of the Czech private farmers in the Czech Republic and abroad is the fundamental activity of APF_CR.
COAG (ES): COAG is a professional farming organisation which operates in the Jaén province, in Andalusia. It provides a wide range of services from the defense of farmers interests to training, information and technical advising, R+D, dissemination of technical improvements, rural development, etc.

Project Website

https://farminfin.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 290813,41 Eur

Project Coordinator

CONSEIL EUROPEEN DES JEUNES AGRICULTEURS AISBL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• UNION DE AGRICULTORES Y GANADEROS-JOVENES AGRICULTORES DE JAÉN
• FOLKUNIVERSITETET STIFTELSEN VID LUNDS UNIVERSITET
• Asociace soukromeho zemedelstvi Ceske republiky
• Hof und Leben GmbH
• AGRICOLTURA E VITA – ASSOCIAZIONE
• On Projects Advising SL