Gardeniser Hub Erasmus Project

Project Title

Gardeniser Hub

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Gardeniser Hub will create opportunities for the exchange of good practices, a chance to share resources and information and create new training opportunities for Gardenisers and Gardeniser Trainers. The training will use the ECVET system and builds on the Gardeniser Pro project by creating and delivering training to the potential trainers of Gardeniser Pro as well as for the public sector and schools. The project will start in October 2020 and finish in March 2023.

Gardeniser Hub builds on the work done in EU GO and Gardeniser Pro which created a recognised training program for people working on community/urban gardens and farms. Gardeniser Hub will now use the work done in Gardeniser Pro to create a new European ECVET system training program which develops new trainers who can train the Gardeniser course and also develops a new format aimed at supporting the public sector and primary and secondary school sectors who want to work with community/urban farms and gardens.

The project objectives are to:
• Develop skilled people to become trainers of Gardeniser to increase the pool of trainers able to deliver this course.
• Create and deliver new formats of training to support public sector and school sectors who want to work with or create urban/community gardens and farms in their areas or sites.
• Use the Gardeniser website to connect trainers in Europe, Gardenisers from the public and school sectors and to allow people to find Gardeniser Hub training courses which will extend the reach of the project.

Participants will all be over 18
For those undertaking the Gardeniser Trainer course they will need to:
– Have three years training or relevant experience in an urban/community garden or farm or have completed the Gardeniser Pro training course.
-Have some experience of working in an urban/community garden or farm.
-For those students doing their training abroad they will need to have an intermediate level of the English, French, Dutch or Italian.

For those from the public sectors they will need to:
– Be currently employed in the public sector
-Have a strong motivation for improving their own competencies to enhance their learning and their role where they are employed

For those from the school sector they will need to:
-Be currently employed in a school or be a parent, trustee or governor of the school
-Have a strong motivation for improving their own competencies to enhance their learning and their role within the school.

60-100 people will be trained as Gardeniser Trainers in the 4 partner countries
-60-100 Public sector and school staff up-skilled and trained in the enhanced version of Gardeniser Pro

Gardeniser Hub intends to develop 5 Intellectual Outputs which are:
-IO1, The European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) format of training for Gardeniser Trainers
-IO2, Development of Gardeniser trainer’s license
-IO3, Pilot of the Gardeniser Trainers course
-IO4, A training format for the public sector and for schools
-IO5, Develop an online Gardeniser Hub platform
Each IO will be tested by each partner before it is considered to be finished and then will be adapted depending on the results from the testing and evaluation. The IO’s have been planned to be consequential.

Once Gardeniser Hub is concluded and all the IO’s are completed public dissemination events will be organised in each country. Each activity will be tested by all the partners and adapted as required before it is considered to have been achieved.

Project Management will be undertaken by SF&G .The management of evaluation and dissemination will be done by all the partners who will be responsible for delivering these activities but there will be coordinators for the following:

-Management and coordination- SF&G
-Dissemination- REPLAY Network with support from EFCF
-Evaluation- Pistes Solidaire with support from REPLAY Network
Responsibilities will be shared among the partners and tasks assigned will be consistent with their specific competencies and with the added value that each partner can bring.

Gardeniser Hub program will, by the end, establish a professional qualification for the trainers of this course and also engage with and support public and school sector employees. The aim of Gardeniser Hub is to create and test an innovative European training programme promoting the development of a new professional role –the Gardeniser Trainer and the Gardeniser within schools and public sector. It will strengthen knowledge, skills and competencies of the people undertaking the training, testing the evaluation of their learning achievements through the ECVET system, with the objective of paving the way for their recognition in the educational and professional training systems, both at a regional and national level and enhancing their learning .This will lead to a larger pool of Gardeniser trainers who will upskill and develop their competencies and deliver Gardeniser training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235362 Eur

Project Coordinator

Social Farms & Gardens & Country: UK

Project Partners

• European Federation of City Farms
• REPLAY Network aps
• PISTES SOLIDAIRES