OSH+ for the European Agriculture sector – Stimulating growth in rural areas through capacity building for providers (and beneficiaries) of occupational medicine and OSH services Erasmus Project

Project Title

OSH+ for the European Agriculture sector – Stimulating growth in rural areas through capacity building for providers (and beneficiaries) of occupational medicine and OSH services

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: Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

The project has been implemented successfully under the foreseen timeframe and it has achieved all its objectives.
The initial number of partners was 6, Romtens Foundation (NGO-Romania), Foundation “Center for Safety and Health at Work” (NGO-Bulgaria), Prolepsis (NGO-Greece), WRC (LLC-Ireland), University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes Timisoara (Public University-Romania) and Andalusian Public Heath School (Public Administration-Spain).
However right after the start of the project the Andalusian Public Heath School decided to withdraw from the project due to internal financial problems; this change has been formalized via the Addendum 1 at the Contract signed by Romtens Foundation with ANPCDEFP. Accordingly the tasks & the budget of the ex-partner were redistributed amongst the 5 remaining project partners.

During the project there were performed the following main activities:
1. Organizing Transnational Project Meetings – there organized 5 such meetings (for more details see their descriptions).
2. Producing Intellectual Outputs – there were produced 7 intellectual outputs namely O1, O2, O3, O5, O6, O9, O10 (for more details see their descriptions). Of this 7 outputs only 6 were budgeted, O1 was not budgeted. It is important to mention that after the evaluation of the project proposal out of the initial number of 13 Intellectual Outputs the evaluator decided to leave only 6 of them, namely O2, O3, O5, O6, O9, O10.
3. Organizing learning activities – there were organized four learning activities: C1, C2, C3, C4 (for more details see their descriptions).
4. Organizing dissemination events – there were organized 4 dissemination events namely E1, E2, E3, E4 (for more details see their descriptions). In addition to these 4 budgeted events project representatives presented (oral presentations during conferences) the project results in other 6 dissemination events for a total audience of around 2800 experts in the fields of OSH, occupational medicine and agriculture.

The main intangible achieved results of the project are the following:
-Enhanced capabilities of the project partners as to assemble and deliver Occupational Medicine & OSH training courses.
-Enhanced competences in the areas of occupational medicine and OSH across the four countries of the project (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Ireland).
-Enhanced knowledge, skills and capacity for a total number of 58 experts; they are as follows: 14 OSH experts, 16 occupational medicine doctors, and 28 project partners’ staff (various professions – all involved in delivering training courses in the 2 domains).
-Increased awareness of the relevant professional communities totalizing more than 3000 direct participants (OSH experts, occupational medicine doctors) on the most recent and advanced information concerning their domains (OSH and occupational medicine) for the agriculture sector.

The project has been extremely well regarded by the professional communities in all 4 countries and its sustainability will be clearly a successful process since the e-learning platform attracts new users.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186716,35 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDATIA ROMTENS & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ASTIKI MIKERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA PROLIPSIS
• ESCUELA ANDALUZA DE SALUD PUBLICA SA
• Foundation “Center for Safety and Health at Work”
• UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE VICTOR BABES TIMISOARA
• Work Research Centre Ireland Ltd.