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Enhancing COoperation amongst FARMing entrepreneurs

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Agricultural markets & farming have changed considerably over the last decades across Europe and agricultural production faces more & more social & environmental challenges. Family farms are a central element of EU agricultural policy & the viability of many family farms is under threat. For example, only 37% of Irish farms are considered as economically viable; 31% are sustainable due to the pres ...
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Social Farming-Social Impact

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

To share, develop and transfer innovative adult education practice across Europe in Social Farming, which will have a positiveimpact on social problems.Social Farming is defined as therapeutic learning activities/projects with animals, plants and the countryside.It is used for many groups including learning disabilities, mental health problems, families with a high cost to the public purse,people ...
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REVAB: REuse and Valorization of Agricultural Buildings through training based on real experiences

Start date: Nov 2, 2015, End date: May 1, 2018,

In the last years rural areas are facing hard challenges: - The economic crisis that EU is facing in the last years had negative effects on the employment rate in the member countries. More specifically the unemployment rate in the EU passed from 6,4% in 2007 to 11,2% in January 2015 (Eurostat, March 2015). In addition to this the unemployment rate in predominantly rural regions of the EU is even ...
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RURALITY: "Recognition and validation of a cross competence in rural community development".

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

CONTEXT: In the community support framework 2,000-2006 and the 2007-2013 financial framework of 39% of all projects had implications for rural development. These data should be added to the Community initiative LEADER + rural development specific. Does not exist in the Member States a vocational qualification, or Transversal competence in community rural development within the professional familie ...
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AGRIDIRECT Nuevas alternativas para el sector agrícola: estudio de experiencias de multifuncionalidad, cadena corta de suministro y venta directa en Toscana

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The economic crisis in the EU had negative effects on the employment rate. Unemployment rate in the Euro zone passed from 6,4% in 2007 to 12,2% in September 2013 with even worst figures, from 8,3% to 26,6%, in some countries as Spain (Eurostat, 31 October 2013). For this reason especially EU rural areas and concretely Spanish ones, are facing a common challenge: the creation of high-quality, susta ...
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Vegetable oil initiative for a cleaner environment (VOICE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

Background Unlike biodiesel, which is a fuel processed with methanol through esterification mainly used in transport by low blending (B5), pure vegetable oil (also known as Straight Vegetable Oil - SVO, or Pure Plant Oil - PPO) cannot be readily used in most diesel engines without it undergoing technological changes. The use of SVO promotes the developmen ...
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MYKOS - Fungi as a Resource of Employment, Sustainable Development and Economic Diversification within the Rural Realm

The MYKOS project will develop, pilot and introduce an outline curriculum for the training and qualification of specialists in the use of wild and cultivated fungus.The project will focus upon the development of innovative training for particular target sectors to include; women & unemployed youth from rural backgrounds and the physically and mentally disabled, with the aim of effectively improvin ...
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TRADE ON-LINE - On-line training for the development of rural areas in Europe

The aim of the Trade On-line project is to improve intervention instruments with a view to increasing employability in the agricultural and rural development sector. A new occupational profile, "specialist in employability promotion in rural areas", will be established.Initially the partnership will focus on analysing employment prospects in rural areas and on national and regional policies on emp ...
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New European Standards in the Context of Reformed EU Common Agricultural Policy

New programming period 2014 – 2020 brings significant changes within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (based on two pillars) which will have a serious impact on economy especially of larger beneficiaries. Capping of direct payments mean a reduction of payments for larger beneficiaries because they – due to economies of size – do not require the same level of unitary support for the objective o ...
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Mentoring Women for Entrepreneurship

Helping rural areas to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st century has become an overall EU priority. The Rural Development Policy (2007-2013) focuses on three thematic axes, of which especially the third axis ‘improving quality of life and diversification of the rural economy’ promotes training, information and entrepreneurship for women, young people and older work ...
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