Agri-Academy: Sustainable farming practices and Entrepreneurship for Farmers & NEETs
▶Summary
The project aimed to educate at least nine NEETs and farmers to enhance their sustainable farming techniques and develop basic entrepreneurship skills through professional formal and informal trai...
▶Objectives
The project aimed to educate at least nine NEETs and farmers to enhance their sustainable farming techniques and develop basic entrepreneurship skills through professional formal and informal training. This initiative enabled the target groups to improve their employability prospects while providing existing farmers with additional tools to develop their agri-businesses. The project's activities promoted inclusiveness and inspired individuals to view agriculture as a sustainable employment choice, both environmentally and financially. The project also sought to create a novel training program and a tool/handbook in OER form for the target groups, focusing on the aforementioned fields of interest. The training was customized to meet the specific requirements and needs of the participants, developing essential green, digital, and entrepreneurship skills. This approach contributed to the project's sectorial and horizontal priorities. Moreover, the project encouraged NEETs and farmers to adopt a new mindset regarding agriculture by offering farming skills and basic business expertise. Good practice approaches were gathered and shared among the participants, helping them understand the practicality and viability of the training.
▶Impact
The concrete outputs of the project were the creation of an open educational resource (OER) in all partner languages and training and awareness-raising activities that resulted in benefiting target groups in the field of sustainable agrienterprenurship. -Focus Group report - available both in EN and GR languages -Desktop research report - available both in EN and GR languages -Best practices portfolio - available both in EN and GR languages -Training Material (in the form of 9 modules) & E-guide -available both in EN and GR languages -Transnational training activity , held in Aegina, Greece (between dates of 13-18th September 2023) - 11 trained NEETs by three qualified trainers. -Study visits - three study visits took place in Cyprus and three study visits took place in Greece -Coaching sessions -involving both physical and online sessions conducted in Cyprus and physical sessions conducted in Greece. -Informational day - involved the participation of more than 70 participants.