EuropeanSpecialists in Traditional Orchards – ESTO

• Curriculum based on ECVET methodology for teachers/trainers from vocational schools, universities, adult education institutions; professionals in the agricultural, horticultural, environmental and education sectors; professionals from farmers’ associations

• National Competence Centres (dissemination of project results, networking)

• ESTO – website

• ESTO-profile in social network platform

• Flyer

• Other PR material, results/products of project PR work

• Pilot „Orchard Schools“

• Transnational meetings, dissemination conference

EQFE-learning Courses for Eco-Farming

• The highly successful Leonardo da Vinci pilot project "EcoJob-AP - Training on European standards for ecological agricultural production" has anticipated this development in 2006 and created an e-based Learning management environment for acquiring knowledge and skills for ecological agrarian production (organic farming). It developed modules for level 3 (for eco-farmers) and for level 5 (for eco-experts) according to the requirements of the EQF. The project ended in 2008. The specific objectives of this proposal are to transfer the results of the EcoJob-AP project into three European languages where this standardized training concept hitherto does not exist: to the Czech Republic, to Austria and to Slovenia, and to produce these versions with linguistic and socio-economic adaptations that refer to the specific situations in these countries. 

EcoJob-AP- Training on European standards for ecological agriculturalproduction

• The main aim of this Handbook is to present the necessary competences for realization of the professional qualification EcoJob-Agricultural production (AP) – EcoJob-AP for EcoFarmer and EcoExpert-AP on European Standards.

• For this purpose, it was necessary to study the needs of knowledge and skills on eco-agricultural production of farmers, managers, specialists, etc. from the agrarian sector of the partners’ countries working on the current project: Bulgaria (BG), Denmark (DK), Greece (GR), Italy (IT), the Netherlands (NL), Slovakia (SK), the United Kingdom (UK).

• Comparing the national qualification frameworks, the partners consider that it is necessary the Handbook to include information about the European Qualification Framework (EQF). The partners approved and accepted to develop the necessary competences at Level 3 for EcoFarmer and Level 5 for EcoExpert-AP.

• The Handbook consists of Transnational Qualification Framework (TQF) of EcoJob-AP and training modules, by means of which the final project objective is achieved:

• Acquiring professional competences of EcoJob-AP through training on European standards

• The on-line training course (Internet based) contributes in addition to realize transparency of the transfer of professional qualification of the presented EcoJob AP. The whole text content of the modules is presented on the website.