Name of the organization: CerOrganic Project
Training title: Quality-Certified Training of Trainers on Organic Agriculture. A school for Potential Trainers of Organic Farmers
Place: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Crete, Greece
Training language: English
Dates and frequency: 22-29 May 2011. The deadline for applying to your National Agency of the Lifelong Learning Programme for a Grant is 14th of January 2011!
Duration: 9 days
Cost:
Funding available: Applicants from all EU Member States apart from Greece (and including Turkey, Croatia and FYROM), are eligible to apply for a Comenius/Grundtvig In-service training Grant covering all travelling, accommodation and participation expenses. Visit www.cerorganic.eu/tft.htm and find out how you can apply!
The deadline for application of a grant is 14th January 2011!
Target groups and admission requirements: all professionals with a university degree in Agriculture, such as agricultural advisors/ trainers, career officers on agricultural topics, certification bodies, managers of vocational education & training centers on agricultural topics, educational and administrative staff of agricultural schools, agriculture extension workers or any young/unemployed agronomist.
Training Objectives: Focuses on the education/training of agricultural professionals, combining traditional teaching methods with the adoption of ICT methods and online teaching resources for achieving Quality-Certified Training of Trainers Organic Agriculture.
Training Program: The CerOrganic training, approved by the European Commission, includes presentations & practical sessions (hands-on labs) and aims to guide participants to develop and organize training seminars for groups of farmers with particular professional needs in OA topics. Please have a look at the documents in the downloads section on this page for more information on CerOrganic.
The blended course consists of 7 days of lectures with European experts in the field of OA, hands-on activities & field trips hosted by the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania in Crete, but also self-paced online activities preceding and following the 7 days of training in Chania.
Topics covered include:
- Principles, Methods & Practices in OA
- Challenges and prospects in etraining of OA
- Legislation/ Certification/Conversion
- Agrobiodiversity & Crop Protection
- Biological Control of Pests
- Farm Management
- Marketing of OA products
- Training methods to approach & advise farmers
- Use of digital teaching resources
