CerOrganic: Quality-Certified Training of Farmers on Organic Agriculture
ID number of the project:
Agreement n. 2009-2192/001-001
project number: 504387-LLP-1-2009-1-GR-LEONARDO-LMP
Sponsor:
European Union – Leonardo da Vinci programme
Duration:
2 years
Start: January 2010 End: December 2011
Project leader:
Coordinator: Yannis Livieratos, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Alsyllio Agrokepiou, PO Box 85, Chania 73100, Crete, GREECE
Investigators:
MAICh (Greece), AgroKnow (Greece), CUB ( Hungary), MORGET (Hungary), ÚZEI (Czech Republic), BMUUKK (Austria), EFQUEL (Belgium), MoA (Cyprus), Dio (Greece),
Responsible person:
Ing. Lenka Fišerová
Annotation:
CerOrganic project expects to increase the number of internationally qualified organic agriculture trainers and provide quality trainings and training certification systems that will ease farmers’ transition to organic agriculture. The overall aim of CerOrganic is to develop and test a quality assurance procedure for the vocational education/training of agricultural advisors/trainers, based on the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQARF). By incorporating existing OA trainings for young and / or unemployed agricultural experts into an innovative quality-certified training program and developing a quality certification system (for application toother OA training programs), CerOrganic aims to enhance the quality and attractiveness of all OA training systems.
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