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Digital Farmer

2021-1IT01-KA220-VET-000033225

A few words about our project.

The project Digital Farmer has been designed to respond to the needs of agriculture and food production sector which are changing so fast following the employment of digital technologies.

Indeed, digital technologies enable better traceability of agricultural products, providing peace of mind for consumers and greater value for farmers. Consequentially, farmers need to develop and to acquire new skills in the field of agriculture.

Through European funding and an international multi-stakeholder cooperation, Digital Farmer intends to produce teaching materials and innovative work-based learning methodologies for educators and teachers in the field of agriculture, platforms for awareness raising, exchange of good practices and a general qualification of European VET systems related to agriculture.

2021-1IT01-KA220-VET-000033225

A few words about 
our project.

The project Digital Farmer has been designed to respond to the needs of agriculture and food production sector which are changing so fast following the employment of digital technologies.

Indeed, digital technologies enable better traceability of agricultural products, providing peace of mind for consumers and greater value for farmers. Consequentially, farmers need to develop and to acquire new skills in the field of agriculture.

Through European funding and an international multi-stakeholder cooperation, Digital Farmer intends to produce teaching materials and innovative work-based learning methodologies for educators and teachers in the field of agriculture, platforms for awareness raising, exchange of good practices and a general qualification of European VET systems related to agriculture.

2021-1IT01-KA220-VET-000033225

How we reach
our goals.

In order to reach project’s objectives, the seven partners of the project will implement various activities:
2021-1IT01-KA220-VET-000033225

How we reach our goals.

In order to reach project’s objectives, the seven partners of the project will implement various activities:

Our Activities.

Local Roundtables

International Workshop

European Training

Manuals

MOOC

Platform

Digital tools and methodologies.

Through the implementation of the activities above, Digital Farmer will bring to the following results:

Manual: Digital VET Trainer in Agriculture

A manual to aim at providing an organic text to educators and teachers for strengthening competences in the agricultural sector and in digital tools and methodologies applied to teaching activities.

A manual to update VET trainers competences in agriculture and for organising new work-based learning experiences in digital format.

The manual will be divided in 6 macro-area related to the new trends and technologies in agriculture 4.0: 

Decision Support Systems (DSS)

Block Chain Technologies

Information and communication technologies (ICT)

Nirs and Drones

Farmbot

E-Commerce software, marketing and advertising platforms

Moreover, Digital Traineeship in Agriculture will be a useful tool for the whole teaching community, from policy makers to students. 

An online teaching tool to aim at transmitting the basic skills for effective distance learning and increasing skills related to the macro-arguments of innovation in agriculture and on the methodologies and techniques.

the platform will enable stakeholders, teachers and trainers to create a network, to exchange best practices and innovative methodologies (areas: distance learning, digital innovations in agriculture).