Summary:This project is about comparing the differences in qualification processes between the participants and to show the differences related to the competences within the agricultural sectorWHO?Agricultural vocational institutions and their teachers and students in 6 partner countries (Austria, Estonia, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, and Spain)WHAT ? Develop a common framework in 6 fields of agriculture Try out the practical use of EQF in VET on levels 3-4 Evaluate EQF related to the agricultural sector and disseminate a format Focus on competence-based learning and make people aware of new learning processes to achieve the aim Promote team work (team thinking and team learning) of students and teachers from 6 different countries Use outcomes of other projects, implement them and combine knowledge and experience to transfer as much innovation as possible Valorise EQFWHY? To involve all stakeholders in a bottom-up approach  To improve transparency, comparability, transfer and recognition  To ease and increase mobility within the European labour marketWhen?September 1 2007- September 2009How? Meetings (teachers, experts) to prepare drafts (3 fields) First 3-week Pilots in 3 countries (students, industry, teachers) to try out and evaluate (weeks 14-16 2008) Meetings (teachers, experts) to prepare drafts (3 more fields) Second 3-week Pilots in 3 countries (students, industry, teachers) to try out and evaluate (weeks 37-39 2008) Meetings (teachers, experts) to reflect, adapt, improve, complete Third 3-week Pilots in 6 countries (students, industry, teachers) to try out and evaluate (weeks 9-11 2009) Meetings (teachers, experts) to finalise EQFProject goals:• To prepare and organise the implementation of a pilot project in six countries in the academic year 2008-2009, with teachers and students from various institutions; • Developing competences in the ’team thinking’ and ’team learning’ of students and teachers in the framework of their own personal development and in international relationships; • To give a boost to a different form of education / a different way of learning; especially for the Netherlands in Life Long Learning• To gain insight into the relationship between cultural differences and the way in which trade relations/export/labour, etc, to relate and EQF in the various countries. • Implement outcomes of former Leonardo projects as Transfer of Innovation.