Integrated Management of Pesticides and Liable Exposure with Machinery Executing Needed Treatments Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integrated Management of Pesticides and Liable Exposure with Machinery Executing Needed Treatments

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

The IMPLEMENT project aims at disseminating good and innovative practices for European farmers on the use of pesticides and other plant protection chemicals, also in comparison with similar standards used in Turkey, with a specific attention to i) safety of operators, ii) environmental protection from diffusion of toxic and polluting products, and iii) food safety. Plant protection is an absolutely necessary measurement for securing the high and stable productivity in the present agriculture. However, because of applying pesticide, it has produced the pollution of environment, which endangers the life of human being, so that it has been paid more attention greatly. Also, plant protection machinery is very different with the other agricultural machinery, its quality and application techniques level affect safety of products. The project is coordinated by the Ondokuz Mayis University and partners are: Agricoltura è Vita Associazione and ENAMA from Italy, ASAJA Granada from Spain and Ankara University and University of Cukurova from Turkey. Other foreseen external collaborations will be: COPA-COGECA, representing the European farmers’ associations and cooperatives, ENTAM, representing the EU agricultural machinery certification bodies and CEMA, representing the European Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers. Other European associations and networks will be involved during the ongoing activities (CEJA, OSHA-Europe, CEDEFOP), as well as representatives of European institutions.The main output of the project will be a catalogue for combined training, open on the spot, long distance and online interactive learning, based on a typologic selection, without reference to trade marks, of the sprayer machineries with their positive and negative issues with relation to the triad of personal, environmental and food safety. The machines will be adequately explained, by support of brief descriptions and a wide use of pictures and video-clips, within training modules sequenced according to increasing levels based on the European Qualifications Framework, starting from a basic admission test (Level 1) corresponding to the qualification of farmer and generic agricultural employee and/or first instalment young farmer to grow up step-by-step to the superior levels (Level 2, for the basic use and maintenance of the machine; Level 3 for planning spraying and related preparation, cleaning and maintenance ; Level 4, with a specialistic module for functional controls addressed to expert sprayer users and personnel responsible for this kind of controls; Level 5, with a specialistic module for sprayer machinery manufacturers including advises for improvement of some technical characteristics, fit for increasing safety standards and providing a user friendly manual for use, controls and correct maintenance).The main target users are: a) farmers and sprayers operators; b) agronomists, trainers and persons in charge of the prevention and protection service at work; c) technicians in charge for functional controls of sprayer machineries ; d) manufacturers of sprayer machineries with specific reference to providing user friendly use and maintenance manuals. The project is sheduled to be developed through 8 Work Packages:I) Staff building, task responsibility sharing and coordination (OMU);II) Training needs analysis and comparison between the participating countries, with specific reference to European rules and standards and to Turkey as a case study (AèV);III) Adaptation of existing training materials with innovative methodology based on slides and animations with brief description and commented movies (ENAMA);IV) Evaluation of the teaching materials, risk analysis and internal assessment (Ankara University);V) Transfer of the teaching materials in an interactive e-learning training platform (OMU) and translation of the teaching materials from English into the national languages (all partners); VI) Test of prototype training materials with target groups (ASAJA Granada);VII) Presentation of the training materials and piloting tests with farmers and manufacturers representatives (with involvement of CEMA, ENTAM and COPA-COGECA in Brussels), and participation of the involved European institutions (European Commission DG AGRI, Employment, Health and Safety; members of the European Parliament and of other institutions, such as Economic Social Committee and Committee of Regions), press and other media journalists specialized for agricultural and work safety. VIII) International Final Conference with presentation of the final results and products and availability online of the training materials (OMU in collaboration with Cukurova and Ankara Universities).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 165004 Eur

Project Coordinator

ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION AGRARIA JOVENES AGRICULTORES ASAJA GRANADA
• UNIVERSITY OF CUKUROVA
• ANKARA UNIVERSITESI
• ENAMA
• AGRICOLTURA E VITA – ASSOCIAZIONE