Toiminta-aika: 1.3.2022 – 31.12.2024
Kokonaisbudjetti: 255 000 € (Lapin amk:n osuus 27 000 €)
Päätoteuttaja: Päätoteuttaja Tanska
Muut partnerit (9): Suomi (Lapin amk), Tanska, Belgia, Espanja, Ranska, Italia, Kroatia, Serbia (2)
Lisätietoja: Petri Muje, p.+358 40 768 6502, email: petri.muje(at)lapinamk.fi
Project Summary
The project FARMER is a study into European best practices for recruiting and retaining students to the agricultural sector. We are facing major challenges regarding recruiting, environmental issues and climate change, social development, and digitalization along with rapid technologies’ development. Their changes require new skills from the educators implementing a greening in the curriculum to support students on their vocational education and training path. The project will work on the development of teachers’ work in supporting students cross-cutting skills within the scope of sustainability and future needs, and the understanding of how to use pedagogical and didactic methods as a tool, to increase the attractiveness of vocational education and training in the agricultural sector.
The project aims at:
- Supporting educators, educational leaders and support staff in communication and education to recruit and retain students.
- Supporting VET educators to implement environmental and climate goals to the education and communication practices.
- Encouraging the establishment of a more hands-on approach teaching.
- Focusing on our recruiting, motivating, and retaining students facing the environmental and climate change challenges.
- Implementing the project as a goal and complementary tool to develop pedagogical and didactic methods among the participants.
- To promote entrepreneurial learning directly in the participating countries and through dissemination on the webpage also in other European countries, engaging students to become true agents of change.
- Raising the students’ awareness regarding possibilities of studying at an agricultural school.