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Role of Traditional Fruit Farming in Regional Development
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project called "Role of Traditional Fruit Farming in Regional Development" is a project aimed to sharing experiences at the level of several different organizations from five EU countries in which the organizations are more or less engaged in the field of fruit growing. It will be in total 152 mobilities (including 64 student mobilities, 32 mobilities of pedagogues, 56 mobilities of representatives of non-profit sector and then also those of people from practice sphere). All partners are actin in vocational training (education) in their region or provide vocational training to schools (as experts from bussinness practice). Why is it important fruit farming in regional development and in education? The project is aimed to demonstration of possibilities, opportunities and possible ways of development fruit farming (apples, pears, stone fruits or other specific species and their varieties) in connection with education. Always with reference to locality, local varieties or old and classic varieties. In most cases, they are historically proven in terms of resistance and adaptation to particular climate and local conditions. They are specific for both taste of the fruits as well as appearance and aroma. For uniqueness and local specificity, they are partially considered as cultural heritage and local wealth. Project participants are students of vocational schools, their teachers and people who is active in vocational training and experience in the fruit farming and local marketing. Goal is to combine theory and practice of teaching and local bussiness. Then demonstrate good practice and "know how", how to do business in fruit farrming. The main idea of this point is cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices between different institutions devoted to the fruit farming in education. In the whole time of the project duration, we will be working on educational material which will be continue to be used for teaching subjects at schools and educational institutions. Results of the project will be also presented all the informations and dissemination activities on the web and fb profile of the all institutions. All the organizations shall do their best to present the project and its outputs at any time during its course and also after finishing the course. Based on implementation of local activities, the target group of the project shall become wider. There shall be workshops aimed to fruit farming, fruit farming, fruit processing and timber species treatment.
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