Organic agriculture in different European countries Erasmus Project

Project Title

Organic agriculture in different European countries

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; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The project is established on the cooperation of three agricultural high schools from the Czech Republic, Spain and Austria. The theme of the project is organic farming in partner countries. The aim of the project is to provide pupils and teachers from the Czech Republic, Spain and Austria with new knowledge and experience in the field of organic farming in the countries of individual participants.
Throughout the project, schools will work closely with organic farms in their region. Farmers from these farms will familiarize students with the principles of organic farming, they will show them how they run their farms. Pupils from each partner school will create presentations about their country, school, methods used in organic farming in their country, and about organic farms in their region. Pupils will learn all necessary information for these presentations during excursions and practices on organic farms, during discussions with organic farmers and also from their teachers. These presentations will be sent to their foreign partners who will learn about these issues. This will be followed by educational activities, where pupils and teachers from partner countries will come to the host country and will deepen their knowledge during excursions and practical activities on various organic farms. This process will take place in the schools of all three partners.
Each partner country will bring different organic farming sectors into the project. The Czech Republic will focus on organic farms engaged in meat and dairy cattle breeds and on goat milk products. The Spanish partner will bring to the project the knowledge of organic fruit, vegetable, olive oil and fertilizer production. The Austrian school will introduce an organic family dairy farm, a sheep breeding farm which also produces trees and does forestation in Alpine areas, and a brewery using organic barley grown by local farmers.
The selection of cooperating farms was aimed at giving participants the opportunity to get to know the widest range of organic farming sectors, to see them work in practice, and to practice many activities themselves in practice.
By implementing the project in international cooperation, partners will be able to share good experiences with organic farming in each country, better understand the benefits and importance of organic farming, and also learn from possible failures in other countries. During the whole project period, virtual activities will take place among pupils of partner schools, where pupils will communicate with each other via social networks, emails or Skype. The entire project will be conducted in English, so pupils and teachers will improve their language skills and learn to use vocabulary related to agriculture.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 62118 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stredni skola zahradnicka a zemedelska Antonina Emanuela Komerse, Decin – Libverda, prispevkova organizace & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Landwirtschaftliche Fachschule – AGRAR HAK Althofen
• Federación de Escuelas Familiares Agrarias de Andalucía Penibética