PLan for Agriculture reNewable Energy Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

PLan for Agriculture reNewable Energy 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 : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Green skills

Project Summary

<< Background >>

The EU Skills Panorama identified Renewable Energy Sources related skill needs in agriculture crucial. It underlines the need for improving skills on “using renewable energy”. Green jobs are growing at double rate in Agriculture than other sectors, but there is indeed a lack of technical, management and legal skills needed to upkeep and maintain RES plants on a daily basis. With green deal and bioeconomy we could expect raising demand of skilled people in this area.

<< Objectives >>

The partners identify RES-related skills needs and provide training to fill in this gap for both professional and unemployed people. They aimed at developing attractive, ECVET certified training programme in country language, that will allows upskill and reskill workers in the of operation and maintenance for the following RES plants in agriculture: biogas, biomass and solar. By the implementation of the project we provide improved level of skills for employability and new business creation.

<< Implementation >>

The training setup by agriculture RES experts, address farmers, advisors, and students. The training is completely modular and divided into five modules: 1) ICT, 2) biogas and biomethane, 3) solid biomass and 4) solar thermal and 5) solar photovoltaic. It was developed following the innovative “flipped classroom” methodology, mixing online training modules, in-class modules, and work-based learning periods, and available in 5 languages.

<< Results >>

The project design 5 platforms, with about 400 h of blended training (online, in-class) per language. The languages supported are Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. About 230 people followed the training and were fully satisfied with the training. The course is certified by Piedmont Region, in Italy and is listed in the VET catalogue course. The training material is free of use. Users can follow from only one day up to the whole course (50 days).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 998948 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CHAMBRE REGIONALE D’AGRICULTURE DE BRETAGNE
• CONFEDERAZIONE GENERALE DELL AGRICOLTURA ITALIANA
• CORNELISSEN CONSULTING SERVICES BV
• AGRAR PLUS BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFTM.B.H.
• OSTERREICHISCHER BIOMASSE-VERBAND
• TECSOL
• STICHTING AERES GROEP