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Herbal.Mednet - Enhancing the Vocational Education and Training of Innovative Farming Trainers / Advisors in Area of Herbal, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Organic farming of herbs and medicinal and aromatic plants is of major importance for rural economy due to their contribution to agricultural diversification and better use of land. Herbs have been used by local populations in traditional ways for many centuries. Their novelty is thus not related to their introduction to new areas but rather to the ways in which old and new uses are being re-addressed to meet today's needs.Existing e-learning content in the topics of organic farming of herbs and aromatic and medicinal plants needs to be appropriately adapted, transferred and validated in relation to the needs of the farmers, so that this area of farming is further understood and adopted. To this end, there is a clear need for targeting agricultural advisors and extension officers, in order to further educate them and prepare them to effectively guide, train, and support farmers. To address the above need, Herbal.Mednet aims to achieve the following objectives:a) Identifying and analyzing targeted needs and competences in order to prepare a set of highly-qualified agricultural advisors and extension officers, who can serve as trainers in adopting and applying organic herbal cultivations and producers / processors of extracts from medicinal and aromatic plants in Mediterranean countries.b) Developing a training program that will particularly enhance and address the targeted competences for the advisors of organic herbs farmers and processors as well as specific case studies that apply for the specificities of the participating Mediterranean countries, Spain, Italy and Greece.c) Developing Vocational Education and Training Scenarios that will particularly enhance and address the targeted competences for the advisors of organic herbs farmers, producers and processorsd) Adapting and enhancing existing training methods and content from previous innovative initiatives such as the Organic.Edunet eContentplus one (www.organic-edunet.eu). e) Making available technical solutions and platforms that may support the provision of this training program from previous innovative initiatives.f) To carry out a set of focused pilot trials that will validate the proposed training scenarios and the transferred e-learning content.g) To promote and reinforce the cooperation of stakeholders in this particular content area, which will –at the same time- support the sustainability of project results.
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