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Le trasformazioni agro-alimentari tra qualità e sostenibilità
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The context of this project is a high school where, after 5 years, students can graduate in the agrarian area. Students are aged from 14 to 19 years old. The school has got experience with transnational projects like “Alcotra” and “Master of Talents”. The school teachers have pointed out some specific needs about sharing methodology, teaching abroad, taking parts to meetings and courses on the sustainability of the environment and food-agrarian chain; in society including paths and enventually in teaching methodological strategies.Aims- Students should acquire methodological and technical skills on new tools about food processing and transformation, as well as potential experiences about the use of hemp (cannabis sativa with low content in HTC).- The school should build up partnerships to acquire specific skills with foreign firms which must be quality certified for production and supply chain in sustainable contexts.- Partecipants will be 37 students from the second last form (2015/16), 10 of them, plus 1 student with disabilities who, after attaining the school-leaving certificate (2016/17), will be selected for departure.Activities­ Preparatory phase: specific courses for students.­ Formal agreements with partners (procedures, training agreement, etc…) and identification of tutors.- Training in the referred partner company.- Halfway and final monitoring.- School activities to organize dissemination at home.- Internal training/ update opportunities for teachers and exchanges devoted to technical activities with referred partners.- Specific agreements with local trade associations and with the municipality of Pianezza.MethodologyCooperative learning, use of ITC, research techniques for information, field visits and laboratory experiences.EffectsThe effects will be considered according to the partecipants' ability of transferring the educational, metodological and planning experiences acquired abroad into their own educational context and area.It will be essential to use the school project called “Antenna Europa”carried out with the "Provincia di Torino", in order to increase opportunities for students and teachers in the area.DisseminationIn relation to the territory, the activities carried out will be mainly introduced to schools, farms and professional trade associations in order to let them know about agribusiness. That will be followed by a workshop on the technical and organisational skills acquired, transferable to local contexts. All the work will be organized by both teachers and students involved, together with local institutions.The days spent abroad during the learning programme will be told and shared in a logbook supplied with photos and reports which students will provide to publish daily on a specific blog set up before their departure.Dissemination will also be carried out in the institute with the help of Peer Educators involved in the "Peer to Peer Project", aimed to share school knowledge among participants attending the last years. Experiences will be published on the school web site and by local newspapers too.Everything is meant to involve as many people as possible, with an eye on local professionals so to make them increasingly interested in promoting experimental breeding and farming practises as well as transformation processes in their area. Furthermore, the eTwinning platform as well as "Antenna Europa" will be used to disseminate experiences all around the territory.As already said, the whole plan and organization will be carried out and monitored by the teachers, with a specific function of tutoring, and by the students involved in the project.Everybody, in particular other schools, interested in similar projects will be allowed to consult all the background material and procedures available.Long term objectivesThe aim is to consolidate and transfer the experiences acquired abroad into the field of education and communication. Specific courses will be organised to share experience abroad with teachers of the same school and area. As far as communication is concerned, a report of the experiences acquired will be published on the school web site and on the eTwinning platform.
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