Comics for Promoting Plant-Based Agriculture

The project general objective was to contribute to the environment and climate change mitigation through increased production and consumption of plant-based food as it has been proven in many res...

The project general objective was to contribute to the environment and climate change mitigation through increased production and consumption of plant-based food as it has been proven in many researches that plat-based food is more environmentally friendly than conventional food based on meat and milk, due to lower greenhouse gas emissions, less impact on biodiversity and use of land and water for food production. To achieve this broad goal, the project aimed to promote plant-based agriculture and consumption through in-depth research on existing promotional strategies and life-long learning opportunities at local, national and EU level, the learning methodology and innovative toolkit based on 5 topics and visual media - comics, the training course for adult educators, trainers, agricultural consultants and lecturers at agricultural schools who work either with producers or consumers in formal or informal education and the e-learning platform with open access either for trainers or individual learners.

The partnership implemented a set of related activities in four thematic work packages that built on each other in a logical structure: WP2: elaboration of templates and guidelines for partner reports, research on existing promotional strategies and lifelong learning opportunities on plant-based farming and consumption at local, national and EU level, compilation of a synthesis report, 1st TPM in Slovenia for planning WP2 activities. WP3: elaboration of guidelines and structure, development of learning methodology and toolkit, evaluation and finalisation of the methodology and toolkit, 2nd TPM in Spain for planning WP3 activities, 3rd TPM in Greece to monitor progress of work. WP4: defining framework of the training course, development of curriculum and training material, transnational training activity for the target group, pilot implementation of the course, evaluation and finalisation, 4th TPM in Lithuania for planning WP4 activities. WP5: technical set up of the e-learning platform and content development, platform evaluation and finalisation, 5th TPM for planning WP5 activities, national multiplier events for dissemination of platform and all results.

Com4AgriPlant produced the following concrete results: the comprehensive synthesis report on existing promotional strategies and lifelong learning opportunities on plant-based farming and consumption on different levels (local, national, EU), the learning methodology on the use of comics in adult learning in formal and informal settings, the innovative toolkit consisting of 30 comics and additional learning content covering 5 different topics, the innovative training course consisting of 13 sessions with guidelines in a form of Trainers' Hanbook, the e-learning platform with open access to all developed resources and training course itself. Other key results include focus groups to evaluate the learning methodology and the toolkit in all partner countries, virtual 2-day train the trainers event (webinar) for training the target groups about the training course, pilot implementations of the course by the target groups in all partner countries, focus groups for pilot testing of the platform in all countries.