Slow Flower Movement Erasmus Project

Project Title

Slow Flower Movement

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: Transport and mobility; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The Strategic Partnership “Slow Flower Movement” has brought together public schools and private vocational training centers from four European countries (Turkey, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands) in order to examine the various national school-to-work transition (on flower farming) settings in the participating countries and their specific vocational learning approaches. Training of vocational school students on how to adapt Slow Flower Farming to the education project was a development of innovation project through partnership among different organizations as Fatma Aliye Vocational and Technical High School (Turkey), Nordwin College (the Netherlands), IPSASR (Italy) and DEULA (Germany). All these organizations were/are well established and experienced bodies on flower farming issue and school education.The Erasmus+ project was set up to exchange expertise on vocational-based learning and training, and of course to highlight examples of good practice.
Objectives
The overall objective of the project was:
– to train the students on education about the slow flower farming
-to improve the VET within the field of sustainable farming with the goal to strengthen the skills of the affected students and give them trainngs that increase their vocational/professional development
-to produce a booklet with good examples on slow flowers of the partner countries
As metodology, the project supposed the sharing of knowledge and competences between students and also teachers belonging to different schools and institutions.
In the 2 years of its working time the project managed to complete all the tasks, activities and products the partner consortium agreed on in the early stage of application and submission. The activities started with an extensive Kick-off meeting that took place in Turkey. Following, 6 LTT Activities were carried out. In these LTT activities 60 students and 15 teachers took place and experienced the good practies of the host countries. After each LTT Activity a questionnaire applied to the participants. The activities were accompanied by 3 transnational project meetings where the expertise and ideas were exchanged, the observation of work plan and time schedule monitored as well as the next tasks and respoinsiblities agreed. Finaly a booklet that contains the slow flower of the partner countries has been created. In order to strengthen the VET, the Slow Flower Movement project has produced a booklet with good examples on how to work with sustainable flowers/farming, which is available online and free for anyone to use.
The Slow Flower Booklet is this project’s one of the main result. The booklet can be found online at http://www.slowflowerproject.com/. In this way the results are available for everybody interested in using the material produced within the project. The main impact of Slow Flower Project is that the professionals (companion teachers) working in the field have gotten new tools and training materials in order to support their students at school to make sustainable choices/decisions.
As it has already known the specific context of the project was the agricultural sector. It is obvious tah this is one of the most internationally oriented sector and that is one of the reason why international mobility should be encouraged in a better way in this sector. However, we can only speak from a success when we really manage to validate, recognize and transfer these learning outcomes which are gained in a context abroad. The involvement of students and staff was helped by different online tools as a website and a Instagram/Whatsapp page where students and staff could exchange their feedbacks on the project and their proposals. This network among students and staff also gave them the chance to improve their knowledge of English and to exchange information about job opportunities in Europe in the future. All the partners were involved in every step of the project. However, their role differed, depending the nature of the organisation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117210 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fatma Aliye Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• DEULA-Nienburg GmbH
• Stichting Nordwin College
• Istituto Professionale Servizi per l’Agricoltura e lo Sviluppo Rurale”G.Fortunato”