VOA3R 2011 Workshop / EFITA 2011 ConferenceVOA3R 2011 Workshop / EFITA 2011 ConferenceJuly 13July 13thth , 2011, Prague – Czech Republic , 2011, Prague – Czech Republic

Identifying the Training Content Needs in

Vocational Education & Training Projects:

The Organic.Balkanet CaseV. Protonotarios, N. Palavitsinis, K.

Papakonstantinou, Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET)

M. Toader, G.V. RomanUniversity of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine

(USAMV) Bucharest, Romania

About the projectAbout the projectLdV ToI Project: 12/2009 to 12/2012

Seven (7) partners from five (5) countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Greece & Spain)

Covers Balkan countries

Organic.Balkanet Organic.Balkanet ConsortiumConsortium

Project Partner Role in ProjectUniversitatea de Stiinte Agronomice si Medicina Veterinara Bucuresti (USAMVB-FA, Romania)

Project Coordinator & Design of training programme

University of Alcala (UAH, Spain) Technical Partner

Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET, Greece)

Dissemination & Exploitation

University of Maribor (Slovenia) Pilot trials design & User partner

University of Rousse (Bulgaria) User needs analysis & User partner

Biomold Association (Romania) User partner

Zdruzenje za ekolosko kmetovanje SV Slovenije (AOANS, Slovenia)

User partner

ScopeScope

“Developing the skills of Organic Agriculture Trainers for the

Balkans” =

Training of Trainers (ToT)

Aims to:Aims to:

facilitate the transfer of innovative training practices and e-learning content to the case of vocational education of: a)young and unemployed agricultural professionalsb) agricultural professionals in new EU members

Priorities CoveredPriorities Covered

1. support improvements in quality and innovation in vocational education and training systems, institutions and practices

2. improve the quality and increase the volume of co-operation between institutions or organizations providing learning opportunities

training resources

educational/training resourcesaim: collect educational/training

material which can be used for the training of trainers

common types of resources: guides, documents, lectures, web sites, papers

target audience: OA trainers, advisors

copyright issues: own material or permission to use resources for non-profit purposes

classification of training resources

Organic.Balkanet Training Content

two (2) content sources:

1.Content providers of the project2.Publicly available content

Organic.Balkanet Training Content

four (4) content providers:

University of Agronomic Science & Veterinary Medicine – Bucureşti (Romania)

University of Maribor (Slovenia) University of Russe (Bulgaria)Biomold Association (Romania)

Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice

si Medicina Veterinara Bucuresti

contributes 250 resources, covering a wide range of topics on OA and AE

resources are mostly web sites, lectures and guides.

they are mostly focused on research and training

Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice

si Medicina Veterinara Bucurestisi Medicina Veterinara Bucuresti

University of Mariborcontributes about 70 resources,

covering a wide range of topics on OA and AE

resources contain lectures, papers and articles

suitable for higher education, can be transformed to cover the training needs of the project

University of Maribor

University of Russecontributes 20 resources,

covering the main topics of OA

resources are mostly papers, articles & presentations

they are mostly focused on research and training and intended for academia, teachers, students and professionals

University of Russe

Biomold AssociationBiomold Associationcontributes 308 resources,

covering a wide range of topics on OA and AE

resources are informational guides, available as word documents.

suitable for vocational training

Biomold AssociationBiomold Association

Electronic document

98%

Paper only document

2%

Storage type - Biomold

publicly available content

1. Resources from FAO (150)1.1 FAO Corporate Document Repository1.2 FAO Publications on Organic Agriculture1.3 LEAD Virtual Research and Development Center

2. Resources from Organic Eprints (50)

3. Resources from Organic.Edunet collection (50)

Organic.Balkanet Training Content

overall analysis

a total of about 650 resourcesresources cover both OA and AE

topicsformatintended use/audiencefile types

Organic.Balkanet curriculum topics

Organic.Balkanet training content

Things to consider (1/2)

the selection of resources was made based on the specific needs of users from al user countries

the available resources will be correlated with the appropriate competences, in order to facilitate their usage in a training course/curriculum

Things to consider (2/2)

the resources will be available through the Organic.Edunet Web portal

www.organic-edunet.eu

Organic.Balkanet

www.organic.balkanet.eu

Thank you!