SMART FARM TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT Erasmus Project

Project Title

SMART FARM TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT

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

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Under the Europe 2020 Strategy, Growth and employment in rural areas, food security and climate change are the challenges facing the response of the new agricultural reform in the EU. An adequate response to these challenges represents a third revolution in the sector, which is already in progress in agriculture and requires the appropriate means. In Indeed, these are digital media, robotics, that affect remote management and improve surveillance and early warning, also represent an employment opportunity for qualified young people in these subjects.
Smart Farming was accepted as a method to improve livelihoods and sustainability, but there is a need for a change in practice and in mindset among farmers to bring this about; requires bringing together advisory services; stimulates Networking and Cooperation. New technologies can be transformative, but there is a need to make these more widely known, including practical examples of their use and application.SFATE partners have decided to work together approximating innovation to rural actors, and especially the youngest who are more familiar with digital and technologies tools.
PARTNERS
Coordinator: Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional
Federación EFA Galicia – VET
USC – (Escola Politécnica Superior – Lugo) – University
Association des Chambres d’Agriculture de l’Arc Atlantique(Francia) – Agricultural Chamber
Philipps Universitaet Marburg (Alemaña)-University
Biotehniski center Naklo (Eslovenia) – VET
ACTIVITIES
The core of the project consists of 8 activities addressed to get the foreseen results:
A1 INVENTORY OF EXISTING PRACTICES. Identify existing practices of smart farming, collecting all the information concerned
A2 EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES IDENTIFIED. Analysis of technologies, processes, human resources
A3 ADAPTATION OF CONTENTS to be presented in a virtual source called “Smart Farming Portal”
A4 Study “New Jobs and Farm Innovation”. Analyze the existing practices on smart farm focused on an employment perspective
A5 DESIGN THE SMART FARMING PORTAL
A6 TESTING the functioning of the SFATE PORTAL
A7 ANALYSIS OF TESTING RESULTS AND FEED-BACK
A8 TRAINING for users
OBJECTIVES
To increase knowledge and the acquisition of smart farming skills in VET Centers
To identify new employment opportunities regarding smart farming
To spread knowledge on smart farming to the general public in order to generate attractiveness to rural areas
TARGET GROUP: Teachers, trainers, advisers, entrepreneurship advisors, students, farmers, and young people in general but also those who are not from agricultural areas.
RESULTS_Output 1
1 Smart Farming Portal (web sfate.eu)
It is the intellectual product of the SFATE project which is aimed at making a review and inventory of the available intelligent agricultural technologies, the employment opportunities associated with them and the didactic resources available to acquire the necessary skills to access these new employment opportunities. Students in the subject area of agriculture, teachers, advisors, farmers and other agents from all over Europe benefit from the portal. SFATE PORTAL incorporates a USER’S GUIDE for easy browsing.
2 Study report
It aims to analyse the information gathered in the SFATE project in order to provide guidance to farmers, students and teachers in the agricultural or forestry branch, advisors and other relevant actors on the potentialities of intelligent agriculture, the skills needed to incorporate these technologies into current agricultural practices, the employment opportunities offered by intelligent agriculture, and the adaptation of training programmes in agriculture and forestry sciences to facilitate access to these employment opportunities. Intelligent agriculture can respond to the main challenges of European agriculture and forestry that are summarised below: Increasing EU food security, Promoting growth and jobs in rural areas, Addressing environmental and climate change challenges.
3 Didactic Guide
It proposes how the Smart Farming portal can be incorporated as a didactic tool in the basic, intermediate and upper-level vocational training cycles of the agricultural and forestry professional families. The Guide indicates the professional modules, also associated with some unit of competence, in which the SFATE portal can develop new skills in students focused on training specialization and new job opportunities within the primary sector.The guide describes practical cases of implementation
IMPACTS AND BENEFITS
To increase skills on smart farming of Teachers, trainers, advisors, students and farmers
To improve the CURRICULA OF THE VET CENTERS
To have a new tool for vocational training
To offer a wider VET base on smart farming
To increase attractivity of rural areas to young people and general public
To increase the knowledge on new employment opportunities in rural areas base on smart farming

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 160541 Eur

Project Coordinator

CONSELLERIA DE CULTURA, EDUCACION E ORDENACION UNIVERSITARIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
• PHILIPPS UNIVERSITAET MARBURG
• Biotehniski center Naklo
• ASSOCIATION DES CHAMBRES D’AGRICULTURE DE L’ARC ATLANTIQUE
• FEDERACION EFA GALICIA