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Technologies to stabilize soil organic carbon and farm productivity, promote waste value and climate change mitigation (LIFE CarbOnFarm)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jul 1, 2018,

...y and increase demand for progressive increases of both mineral fertilisation and irrigation. Objectives The LIFE CarbOnFarm project intends to address the basic requirements concerning the sustainable use of agricultural soils through the restoration and preservation of soil functionalities. It will help to valorise t ...
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Educating adults about volunteering and organic food production on farm enterprises

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Educating adults about volunteering and organic food production on farm enterprises (EDVORG) is the focus of this partnership project with national organisations from ten European countries. It will develop and promote a Learning Guide as an online open educational resource (OER) for adult learners about organic food production, entrepreneurship, volunteering and cultural exchange on farm enterpri ...
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Selective collection of the organic waste in tourist areas and valorization in farm composting plants. (SCOW)

Start date: Dec 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

... Expected Results: • Integrated and improved waste collection and recycling organic waste system, with small farm composting plants developed in the agricultural holdings situated near the tourist areas • Increased quantity of collected biowaste in the areas concerned by the project (approximately 7.000 tons p ...
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Organic Rankine Cycle Cogeneration Plant of one-farm size using rice straw as single fuel (POWERICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

...tion industry cannot produce energy when the need is below 200kWe due to technical and economical bias.POWERICE co-generation plants use rice straw as unique fuel, and will be dimensioned on a single farm basis. The deep knowledge of rice sector in Italy (EU strongest producer), and a wide expertise in supply chain logistics of FORENERGY, the applying SME (IT), will be gathered with the reputed en ...
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Learning From Green Environments II

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

... food.. etc. The volunteers will be involved in activities with the Environmental Centre and Agricultural Park. The activities made involve task such as: feeding the animalsrecycling, production of farm products, nature conservation maintenance of the equipment used in the activities (bicycle, binoculars…) opening and maintenance of paths and footpaths etc. The context of the project is in the sma ...
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Kulinarna podróż do ekologicznego gospodarstwa umbryjskiego - praktyka zawodowa uczniów klas gastronomicznych we Włoszech

Start date: Dec 31, 2014, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

...iceship was to familiarize the students with Italian cuisine and organic food production and also to enable them to acquire the basic skills related to this issue. The training took place on a family farm Fattoria Biologica Patrice Spoleto (Umbria region , province of Perugia ). During the four-week internship, the trainees studied the methods of preparing regional Italian dishes and the ecologica ...
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Growing through voluntary

Start date: Sep 1, 2012,

...Care.The first one was in October 2011. Cardea Youth Care works with youngsters with fewer oppurtunities. 6 youngsters, who have difficulties at school or work will go to Turkey to work on an organic farm for 2 weeks. They will learn skills in a different country which will help them when they are back in Holland. Working on an organic farm in Turkey will make the youngsters aware of their own and ...
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Achieving good water QUality status in intensive Animal production areas (AQUA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Background Intensive livestock farming contributes to excessive levels of nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) in the environment. This can deteriorate groundwater quality, especially through increased nitrate concentrations. An increase in livestock numbers over the past 50 years has generated an increased amount of manure, which in turn ha ...
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Rural is Plural

Start date: May 2, 2016, End date: Jan 1, 2017,

...l integrate and support the local community, supporting the activities lead by the organization, while they will have the chance to propose new ones. During their stay they will help in the organic farm and take part in the environmental awareness activities, and enjoy with the alternative leisure, working specially with children and young people.These are some examples of the tasks where the vol ...
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Фамилното биоземеделие - инструмент за интелигентен и приобщаващ растеж и устойчиво местно развитие

Start date: Nov 21, 2016, End date: Nov 20, 2017,

... growing industries in the region of the municipality of Popovo. For many families in the region it is a way of life and a tool for existence. There are excellent conditions for development - fertile farmland, flat terrain, stable traditions in agricultural production. Enhanced demand for quality and ecologically clean agricultural production. Support is needed for the family business, to encourag ...
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Procedee tehnologice de obtinere a produselor bio in ferme ecologice.

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The Project “Technological processes of obtaining bio products in ecological farms” was born from the necessity of offering a chance to a number of 60 students with fewer opportunities enrolled in the profile ‘natural resources and environment protection”, qualification domain “agriculture”, to participate to a practice stage of 4 weeks in real working conditions in ecological farms from the regio ...
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Profitable organic farming techniques based on traditional crops: contrasting soil degradation in the Mediterranean (Crops for better soil)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Oct 14, 2016,

Background Farmland occupies around 50% of Europe’s land area and farming activities have shaped a rich variety of landscapes and habitats. It plays a vital role in maintaining natural resources and cultural landscapes and is crucial for many human activities. However, inappropriate agricultural practices also cause adverse environmental effects, includ ...
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Innovative fertilizer from urban waste, bio-char and farm residues as substitute of chemicals fertilizers (Life RESAFE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...fective use of reduced salinity fertilisers (RSF) as a step towards replacing chemicals and mineral fertilisers through a technological route based on urban organic waste (UOW), bio-char and farm organic residues (FOR). Based on this approach, it will be possible for farmers and urban waste managers to reduce costs and benefit economically from material recovery (e.g. reduced quantities of waste ...
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'Οταν η παραδοσιακή ελαιοκαλλέργεια συναντά την Σύγχρονη Επιχειρηματικότητα

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The proposed project is aimed at 20 farmers from the surrounding area of Trifylia . Participants are members of producer groups or agricultural cooperatives , and growers from across the province Trifylias of Messinia , . They are in the process of developing their own business or to continue their family business of which they are members . Emphasis is placed on the draft biological cultivating ...
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Agropractice 4.

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

...hool of Opava, allowance organization). This project is about internship of two groups of participants held in a foreign country. The first and second internship course is to be held on the family farm of Ms Eleni Andronikidu in Preveza, Greece. The internships have been prepared for 13 students from the branches of Agrobusiness, Farmer and Gardener as well as 2 accompanying persons. The internshi ...
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RURAL/ITER - Reintroduction Upon Rural Agricultural Lands of Innovative Training for Entrepreneurs on Return

...economics have announced a recession in Europe in 2012, with enlargement of unemployment in all the States. Agriculture had experienced for many years a constant decrease in the number of businesses, farmers, and workers. From 2008, some new facts came up, establishing a trend with increased number of farms, entrepreneurs and employees, particularly for youth (15-44 years old), for adults (45-64 ...
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Growing through voluntary work 2014

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...ardea. Cardea is a youth care organistion which works with youngsters with fewer oppurtunities. 6 youngsters, who have difficulties at school or work will go to Yaniklar, Turkey to work on an organic farm for 2 weeks in October 2014. They will learn skills in a different country which will help them when they are back in Holland. Working on an organic farm in Turkey will make the youngsters aware ...
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От фермата до вилицата - практики за етичен и устойчив агробизнес

Start date: Nov 16, 2015, End date: Nov 15, 2016,

Popovo region provides excellent conditions for a development of the agribusiness – there are many farmlands, flat terrain, stable traditions in agriculture.Agricultural production must be ecological clean. Support is needed for small producers and young farmers. Their production must be presented on the market. The project “From Farm to Work – practices for stable and ethical adribusiness” will ...
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Creating a platform for communication between science and practice in organic food system

Title: Creating a platform for communication between science and practice in organic food system.Introduction: Organic agriculture is a system of farm management based on natural substances and processes and, therefore, contributing to environment protection, animal welfare and rural development. Since 1990 the market for organic products has been growing rapidly. Increasing demand for organic foo ...
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Learning place Bio-Farm - ‘train the trainers’ course and platform on farm-based learning for integration - for farmers, educators and coordinators.

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The aim of the Strategic Partnership is to develop an e-learning course and interactive online portal “Learning place Bio-Farm”, offering learning materials and OERs for training of teachers, farmers, staff of coordinating agencies, other pedagogues and NGO staffs as “Bio-Farm Guides. Farm visit as pedagogical methodEducational farm visits provide an alternative and innovative space that enables “ ...
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Create your citizenship

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...ng people. The EVS project will be based in the local youth club of the organization in Kavadarci, while part of the activities will be also developed in some villages near the city and the organic farm in creACTive ownership. Target group of this project are young people aged 13 to 25 from the town and the nearby villages, while the activities include various workshops in the fields of arts, cult ...
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Integrated Strategies for GHG Mitigation in dairy farms (GAS-OFF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

...gy. Objectives The project aims to develop an integrated strategic approach for mitigating GHG emissions from dairy farms in the target area. This will be achieved by monitoring 50 dairy farms in the province of Lodi. Monitoring data will be analysed to increase knowledge about: GHG of enteric origin, through the evalua ...
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Green Program for Organic Production

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...project: The goal of the GreenPOP Project is to enable VET Providers in Macedonia to deliver innovative training programs and courses for sustainable (organic) agriculture with focus on practical (on-farm) training for a) students from agriculture VET schools (from year II,III and IV) as future farmers/employees, but also b) develop vocational short modular courses for agriculture entrepreneurs/fa ...
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CerOrganic - Quality-Certified Training of Farmers on Organic Agriculture

Start date: Jan 1, 2010,

...sses the need for sustainable growth while meeting consumer demand for increased food quality and safety. EC policy encourages the development of OA with the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming, which is applied nationally through efforts to increase land area in OA. The European Council of Young Farmers found training to be a ‘very important instrument’ to adopting the European Mode ...
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Organic Cooks in Public Settings

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...tential to become a promising sales channel for organic foods. Processing of regional organic food in public catering service is an important factor to enhance regional supply chains, regional family farm production (2014 – UN-International Year of Familiy Farming) and helps developing organic markets on local regional and national level and thus contributing to sustainable development of rural ar ...
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ΕΠΑΓΓΕΛΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑΡΤΙΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΑΛΛΙΕΡΓΕΙΑ - ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗ - ΕΠΕΞΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΜΠΟΡΙΑ ΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΑΡΩΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΦΥΤΩΝ

Start date: Jul 6, 2016, End date: Jul 5, 2017,

...d of two weeks aiming to receive vocational training in production, processing, processing and marketing units that deal with AMP. Students of the sector mainly come from low educational family farm environments, participate in the family farm work and have low school performance. Cyprus has been chosen as host country since the varieties ofAMP are similar with our region and the non-use of the fo ...
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Helping enhanced soil functions and adaptation to climate change by sustainable conservation agriculture techniques (LIFE HelpSoil)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

...ct objectives include: Implementing practices to improve the ecological functions of soil - organic carbon sequestration, soil fertility and biodiversity, protection against erosion - in a number of farms, with the goal of increasing agricultural sustainability and competitiveness; Integrating conservation practices and innovative techniques in order to Increase the efficiency of irrigation; imp ...
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FERTIPLUS Reducing mineral fertilisers and agro-chemicals by recycling treated organic waste as compost and bio-char products (FERTIPLUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

FERTIPLUS will identify urban and farm organic wastes that can be used to recycle nutrients into agriculture as biochar, compost or combinations of them. Urban and farm organic residues are a large source of nutrients and today not used to its full potential. FERTIPLUS will assess and use this potential and contribute to sustainable crop production and soil productivity and quality across regions ...
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Basic Elements

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

...the possibility to choose between living in the Creativity Vortex in a private cabin or in a apartment near the Vortex. The Vortex has a private cabin on a 12 hectare plot of land that houses an eco-farm and other environmentally-friendly structures. During their stay in Malta they will be helping out at the farm while also helping us as an organisation with our weekly activities. They will thus ...
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Biodynamic farm & communal life

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

We are Toivo-farm cooperative at Rihu-village, Heinola, Finland. The cooperative cultivates biodynamic vegetables. Biodynamic farming is based on the sustainable use of natural resources. The farm makes their own ecosystem, which brings up more rural biodiversity. The complex includes the ground, crops and animals, but also people and the entire surrounding nature.The cooperative receives student ...
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YE-Empowering Rural Youth Through Renewable Energy

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...exercises, getting-to-know-you games, visit classrooms at the three local schools, participate in preparing meals and organizing evening activities with music and sports, visit a traditional summer farm in the mountains, take a two-day course on solar thermal systems, and sleeping over at a summer camp facility where they can fish, canoe, have a bonfire, and swim. In addition, local elections are ...
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LIFE Zero Residues: towards a sustainable production and supply chain for stone fruit (LIFE Zero Residues)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

...mber of white blood cells and disease-fighting lymphocytes. Long-term health impacts can include cancer, infertility, miscarriage, male sterility, birth defects, and effects on the nervous system. Farm workers are at much greater risk of toxicity due to increased exposure to pesticides. Risk of birth defects is reported with certain pesticides, particularly, the herbicide 2,4-D used on farmland (G ...
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An integrated approach to diversify the genetic base, improve stress resistance, agronomic management and nutritional/processing quality of minor cereal crops for human nutrition in Europe (HealthyMinorCereals)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...low-input sector, addressing gene x environment interactions, fertilization and potential benefits of agronomic management suited to improve yields in each country, and culminating with innovative on-farm trials.The project will investigate variation in nutritional quality of selected genotypes and analyse biological effects of seed extracts in human cell lines. Parameters of grain important for f ...
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My Small Permaculture Life - Benim Küçük Permakültür Yaşamım

Start date: Jan 20, 2015, End date: Jul 19, 2015,

...nt and experienced how to make cowpat, how to protect environment, design of house garden, urban and community strategies, and the effective use of natural sources. While doing these, They created a farm. In this farm, They exemined the different scales of food production, sustainable human settelements and designs. Participants learnt about home design, construction, energy saving and productio ...
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Organic Knowledge Network Arable (OK-Net Arable)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The overall aim of the thematic network ‘OK-Net Arable’ is to improve the exchange of innovative and traditional knowledge among farmers, farm advisers and scientists to increase productivity and quality in organic arable cropping all over Europe, in order to satisfy future market demand. To achieve this, 'OK-Net Arable' has three specific objectives:1) to create a European network of well-functio ...
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Youth for a greener Europe

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

... Organic Agriculture Movements) in Brussels in 2016 for one year in order to learn more about sustainable agriculture and food production. Starting from IFOAM EU’s core issues (sustainable food and farming, climate change, resource efficiency, protection of biodiversity), volunteers will be invited to further develop their major interests and concerns in the specific working area of IFOAM EU that ...
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Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high quality food systems (DIVERSIFOOD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

...on between participatory research networks and professional breeders as well as policy makers in connecting formal and informal seed systems in Europe in relation to international negotiations on Farmers’ rights with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Key-lessons based on the diverse experiences in the project will be shared to support on-farm seed produc ...
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Sustainability

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Nov 16, 2015,

SUSTAINABILITY Vattholma Ecological Farm is an environmental and urban–rural project on a strongly diversified, middle sized organic farm 100km north of Stockholm in Sweden We together with workers, trainees and volunteers farm on an organic level as well as we continually step by step develop the farm to be sustainable. We would like to participate in making the global society more rich of option ...
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Sustainability

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

SUSTAINABILITYVattholma Ecological Farm is an environmental and urban–rural project on a strongly diversified, middle sized organic farm 100km north of Stockholm in SwedenWe together with workers, trainees and volunteers farm on an organic level as well as we continually step by step develop the farm to be more sustainable. We would like to participate in making the global society more rich of opt ...
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Habitat management of Hortóbagy eco-region for bird protection (Habitats-Birds)

Start date: Jul 1, 2002, End date: Jun 30, 2006,

...rse the unfavourable ecological processes happening in the eco-region. • Restore and rehabilitate the puszta and wetland habitats exploited by bird species nearly extinct. Establishing a farming system was considered essential for the long-term management of the project area. Plans included the purchase of traditional cattle breeds (such as Hungarian grey and flecked cattle, mangalica pigs, ...
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