Modern agriculture and future-oriented vocational training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Modern agriculture and future-oriented vocational training

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: Environment and climate change; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project brings together partners from three countries / regions in which both the technologies in agriculture and the digitization of processes are very different: Thuringia with its relatively large farms and Malopolska with more small-scale farms, Estonia with its high degree of digitization and great acceptance of digital applications. There should be an exchange between the partners about the current curriculum for a farmer and animal farmer taking into account the following aspects:

• Location of agricultural enterprises/farms in the partner regions along the innovation chain from control / regulation via automation – smart farming – digital farming up to shared economy farming and as a result VET requirements,
• Balancing between ecology and economy and the resulting requirements for competencies of skilled work force, attitudes and awareness of the options for farmers’ own contribution to this and the requirements for training to acquire them.

The primary objective of the exchange is to bring the partners’ state of knowledge to a high level, to present exemplary developments in the countries, to give impulses for ideas and actions, to trigger initiatives in their own work. Target groups for the exchange project in the sense of the partnership are training institutions (managers, teachers), associations and networks of agricultural holdings as well as structures that develop, evaluate or confirm VET content (curricula). In addition, it is planned to include political and stately institutions, which are important for the project and the development of Agriculture 4.0. In this regard the partner’ options und those of the cooperating structures within the frame of the project have to be taken into account.
The project addresses two sectors: the training area and agriculture. The primary benefit for the training institutions is the presentation of successful development examples to the partners and feedback on their own area of responsibility, as well as knowledge about the development stages of Agriculture 4.0 and the resulting training requirements.

Project Website

https://www.molab-erasmus.de/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56325 Eur

Project Coordinator

Thüringer Agentur für Europäische Programme e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Agrar GmbH Crawinkel/ Thüringen
• Chemtrade Estonia OU
• UNIWERSYTET ROLNICZY IM. HUGONA KOLLATAJA W KRAKOWIE
• Agrargenossenschaft eG Bollstedt