Innovative agricultural techniques to boost entrepreneurial skills of future farmers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovative agricultural techniques to boost entrepreneurial skills of future farmers

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

“Innovative agricultural techniques to boost entrepreneurial skills of future farmers”, our title explains how ambitious is our project: we want to work on basic skills to boost entrepreneurial education. We believe that providing appropriate courses for our target group means allowing them to escape from the low skills trap, but also empowering them to contribute to their own lives, families and communities. In fact, the profile of many of our students is exactly that of future European citizens with low skills and few opportunities to reach an adequate life standard for our modern and quickly changing societies.
Our project is based on a learning by working methodology and it will be organised into 6 LTT meetings.
Participants will have the chance to learn step by step all the relevant phases to plan, do, check and implement a successful start-up connected to agriculture and farming.
There will be 6 modules developed during this project. In each module participants will learn and apply strategies to become future smart farmers. Participants will be able to make creative, sustainable and inclusive choices that will protect and enrich the environment, the quality of the air and soil, make profit and make their society a better place to live in. The project and the LTT activities will be an irreplaceable occasion for the improvement for teachers and organizations as well, every participant will show their best practices and learn from the others.
The project activities that we will carry out will be organized in the following modules:
1. What’s my soil, my air, my territory like?
2. How can I preserve the environment in agriculture and animal farming?
3. What is innovation in agriculture and animal farming?
4. How can I start a successful and innovative business in agriculture or animal farming?
5. How can I control, manage, innovate, improve business?
6. Our Start up!

For each module participants will take part to living labs where they will study and put into practice their know how in a creative way, thanks to the adopted methodologies: problem solving, cooperative learning, learning by working, learning by experiencing. These activities will help them improve their basic skills in literacy, numeracy and digital skills.

Learning and learning how to learn will be encouraged in all the project steps because we want that our students understand that this is a fundamental step for success: in the agricultural field much of the knowledge is passed from father to son only by experience; for this reason, in some contexts, there has been no innovation for years. We want our students to understand that past experiences are really important and belong to everybody’s culture but studies, research and innovation are important as well and they can help them to innovate this sector and improve their business.
In other words, our challenge is to let them do very old things in a very new way.

We are planning 3 transnational meetings and 6 LTT meetings.
Transnational meetings will be held at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the project, mostly to organize, monitor, report and disseminate project results.
LTT meetings will be distributed during the project to implement the project itself and carry out the planned activities. They will be a key step of our project because students will work together to solve problems, find strategies and check results.

A number of 6 students and 2 teachers will visit each partner school. At least 20 students from the host school will take part in the activities when the school hosts the meeting.
Each mobility will be held in one of the participating countries. In every mobility, hosting schools will manage to let students learn by working, find associated partners where students will have the chance to see and put into practice what they are learning and to boost the development of ideas that will one day become real working chances for the students that participated to the project, like start ups in the agricultural field.

Monitoring and evaluation will be a continuous process going on throughout the project and will be carried out both on a formal and informal level and in the form of self and peer assessment.
The planned results of our project are: the project web site translated into the 6 project languages and a related newsletter to be regularly sent to stakeholders and associated partners, the creation of 6 start up, the implementation of innovative farming experiments in every partner school and the production of products that will reach thousands of families across Europe.
This project will have a big impact on participants, organizations, stakeholders and communities in general. Our products will reach families with explanations and public events will be organised to disseminate the project activities and results. Participants will have practical competences that will help them not only to find a job but to make their way into the society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 254840 Eur

Project Coordinator

IIS “S.Pertini” – Alatri & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Liceul Tehnologic nr.1 Valea lui Mihai
• Agrupamento de Escolas Padre Benjamim Salgado
• Viesoji istaiga Panevezio profesinio rengimo centras
• IEK KAVALAS
• Koulutuskuntayhtymä Brahe