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Developing the Skills of Organic Agriculture Trainers for the Mediterranean

Organic Agriculture (OA) is an increasingly important part of the food and agriculture industries. Public awareness on environmental issues has brought forward OA as an agricultural approach that can not only produce safer products but is environmentally sound too. Due to the particularities of the agricultural sector though it is difficult to promote the new culture of sustainable agricultural production to its stakeholders. In countries such as Turkey, Greece and Spain, the uptake of OA practices and techniques is still developing. The reasons for these countries lagging behind can be found in the slow introduction of OA topics as a priority of academic and vocational educational systems of all levels that contribute to the education of agricultural professionals. In this context, the Organic.Mednet project:- Identified and analysed targeted user requirements for training agricultural professionals in a number of EU countries (i.e. Greece, Spain and Turkey) on topics related to Organic Agriculture.- Selected and analysed innovative e-learning content that had been previously developed to support training needs in previous initiatives.- Integrated the e-learning content in national and regional training systems and practices related to OA.- Adapted and enhanced selected e-learning content to support the lifelong learning needs of agricultural professionals in the participating user organisations, through appropriately designed training scenarios.- Collected, categorized and published in an online learning repository (the Organic.Edunet portal: http://portal.organic-edunet.eu/) the transferred content from previous initiatives in the form of digital training objects.- Deployed a multilingual Multimedia Online Learning Environment (MOLE: http://om.moleportal.eu/) specifically designed to facilitate end-users’ online use of digital training objects.- Designed a number of training scenarios for the use of the transferred e-learning content to support training of agricultural professionals in the participating user organisations.- Carried out a set of focused pilot trials to validate the proposed training scenarios and the transferred e-learning content.- Promoted the cooperation of stakeholders in the area and supported the sustainability of project results.
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