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AgriSkills E-learning Platform: Bridging Borders in Digital Agriculture Education

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We are thrilled to share the exciting news about the AgriSkills E-learning Platform—a dynamic initiative created in five languages (English, Slovenian, Macedonian, German, and Greek) to facilitate self-learning and vocational education and training (VET) in the realm of digital agriculture. Developed under a Creative Commons license, this platform is freely accessible to everyone interested in advancing their knowledge and skills in the field.

The platform contains four sections:

Embark on a transformative journey with our comprehensive Training Course, carefully crafted to provide a deep dive into the multifaceted world of Digital Agriculture. Accessible in five languages, this course equips learners with the essential skills needed for success in the ever-evolving landscape of agriculture. Engage at your own pace and discover the possibilities that digitalization brings to the field.

Dive into our Modules, designed to address specific aspects of Digital Agriculture. Whether you are interested in precision farming, smart technologies, or digital transformation strategies, our modular approach allows you to tailor your learning experience to suit your interests and goals.

Navigate through our extensive Catalogue, a rich repository of resources tailored to enhance your understanding and proficiency in Digital Agriculture. Practical knowledge is essential for highlighting successful digitalization practices implemented by others in their farms and regions. Furthermore, the Catalogue describes existing digital technologies and illustrates how farmers have already applied innovative solutions.

AgriSkills 4.0 e-Learning Platform: https://training.agriskills40.com/training/

Your Gateway to Good Practices and Use Cases

Learn from real-world examples, discover best practices, and gain insights that can shape your own journey towards excellence in the digital realm of agriculture. This is an interactive database searchable by various criteria.

Access the platform https://training.agriskills40.com/, and let the journey begin!

Join us in this transformative educational experience and embrace the opportunities that Digital Agriculture presents. The AgriSkills is not just a course; it’s a community-driven initiative, bringing together individuals passionate about shaping the future of agriculture.

About AgriSkills

“AgriSkills – Entrepreneurial Skills for Digitalization of Rural Agriculture”is a European project, funded by Erasmus+ Program. Our objective is to raise awareness about the digital transformation in agriculture and to provide a training program for entrepreneurial skills in digital, smart and precision farming.

The AgriSkills consortiumbrings extensive experience in business development, vocational training, digital technologies, innovation management, and regional development.

The AgriSkills outcomes stimulate awareness, knowledge, and skills of learners and trainers in the field on the issues of digitalization and digital farming.

The initial survey, titled “Uncovering Essential Skills for Adopting Digital Technologies in Agriculture” (https://agriskills40.com/goals-results/need-analysis-survey-findings/) is a study of the needs for the development of upskilling knowledge and competences useful for the adoption of digital technologies in agricultural production and management. The survey was conducted in five European countries: Germany, North Macedonia, Greece, Slovenia, and Austria.

AgriSkills Training Course (https://training.agriskills40.com/training/), developed as a ‘guided tour’ through the entire range of digital opportunities in agriculture, introduces the needed skills and competences implemented into a complete training.

AgriSkills reference catalogue,  titled “AgriSkills Guidebook on Digitalization in Agriculture” (https://training.agriskills40.com/catalogue/), promotes inspiring initiatives, good practices, and use cases with a special focus on fostering business development, thus making innovation happen in agriculture, especially in rural areas.

AgriSkills 4.0 e-Learning Platform (https://training.agriskills40.com) serves as a virtual environment for interactive online courses, representing a completely new approach to understanding digital agriculture.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. 

Project number: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000034651

All AgriSkills Intellectual Outputs are Open Educational Resources.

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International License

Digital Agriculture Support: The AgriSkills Training Course is Released

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The Learning Path of AgriSkills Training Program

We are excited to share the latest updates and accomplishments of the AgriSkills project, an initiative that’s transforming the landscape of agriculture through digital innovation and entrepreneurial skills development. Launched in 2022 and funded by the European Erasmus+ Program, AgriSkills is on a mission to revolutionize the agriculture sector by fostering awareness and equipping individuals with the necessary skills for digital, smart and precision farming.

Our ongoing efforts are already yielding positive outcomes. The AgriSkills project is making a significant impact by elevating awareness, knowledge, and skills among learners and trainers in the field of digitalization and digital farming. We’re proud to contribute to building a community that is well-equipped to navigate the dynamic landscape of modern agriculture.

AgriSkills Training Course: A Guided Tour of Digital Opportunities

One of our key achievements is the development of the AgriSkills Training Course, designed as a “guided tour” through the vast realm of digital opportunities in agriculture. The course introduces essential skills and competences needed for success in digital, smart and precision farming. We’re closing a crucial training gap by offering this program, which is available in English and the languages of our partnership countries (German, Greek, Slovenian, Macedonian).

Training Modules and Insights

The course consists of five comprehensive modules, tailored to address the needs identified through our initial survey, “Survey Findings: Uncovering Essential Skills for Adopting Digital Technologies in Agriculture.” This survey, conducted in five European countries – Germany, North Macedonia, Greece, Slovenia, and Austria – shaped the foundation of our training modules. Check out the insightful analysis of our target groups’ needs here:

https://agriskills40.com/goals-results/need-analysis-survey-findings/

Accessibility and Application

The AgriSkills Training Course is freely available for use by anyone, and it has been developed under a Creative Commons license. Suitable for self-learning and blended learning, vocational education, and training organizations can integrate it into their educational purposes, ensuring widespread access to valuable knowledge and skills.

Explore the training modules here https://training.agriskills40.com/modules/ and join us on this exciting journey towards a sustainable and digitally empowered future for agriculture.

About AgriSkills

“AgriSkills – Entrepreneurial Skills for Digitalization of Rural Agriculture”is a European project, funded by Erasmus+ Program. Our objective is to raise awareness about the digital transformation in agriculture and to provide a training program for entrepreneurial skills in digital, precision, and smart farming.

The AgriSkills consortium brings extensive experience in business development, vocational training, digital technologies, innovation management, and regional development.

The AgriSkills outcomes stimulate awareness, knowledge, and skills of learners and trainers in the field on the issues of digitalization and digital farming.

Initial Survey, titled “Survey Findings: Uncovering Essential Skills for Adopting Digital Technologies in Agriculture” (https://agriskills40.com/goals-results/need-analysis-survey-findings/) is a study of the needs for the development of upskilling knowledge and competences useful for the adoption of digital technologies in agricultural production and management. The survey was conducted in five European countries: Germany, North Macedonia, Greece, Slovenia, and Austria.

AgriSkills Training Course (https://training.agriskills40.com/training/), developed as a ‘guided tour’ through the entire range of digital opportunities in agriculture, introduces the needed skills and competences implemented into a complete training.

AgriSkills reference catalogue,  titled “AgriSkills Guidebook on Digitalization in Agriculture” (https://training.agriskills40.com/catalogue/), promotes inspiring initiatives, good practices, and use cases with a special focus on fostering business development, thus making innovation happen in agriculture, especially in rural areas.

AgriSkills 4.0 e-Learning Platform (https://training.agriskills40.com) serves as a virtual environment for interactive online courses, representing a completely new approach to understanding digital agriculture.

Follow us on our social media channels:

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/agriskills4.0/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agriskills-4-0  

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. 

Project number: 2021-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000034651

All AgriSkills Intellectual Outputs are Open Educational Resources.

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International License

60+ Good practices and more in “Industry 4.0 Skills”

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Good Practices, Interactive Database and a Catalogue with all collected materials free for download

We, the team of the European project “Skills and Competences for Work in Industry 4.0”, funded by the Erasmus + program, are proud to present the results of our work, intended for all stakeholders interested in increasing their knowledge and adapting their skills to the challenges of Industry 4.0.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, as a trend towards automation and data exchange in production technologies, requires a transformation in various basic technologies, processes and organizational changes. This framework serves largely as a guideline for companies and their work teams in their quest to become part of Industry 4.0 with the right technologies and the right skills.

We are ready to inform about more than 60 successful examples of how to make the transition from labor-intensive work to intensive work in an industrial environment, and present to stakeholders (such as trainers in VET and adult education, human resource management, labor market policy experts, industry workers, students and job seekers) good examples of how other organizations have implemented new policies, initiatives, methods, programs and projects to achieve the necessary transformation of skills in their work teams.

We have been working on the topic for two years and now our work on the project is coming to an end. In this regard, we are proud to announce our achievement.

A collection of good practices. More than 60 good practices have been collected as use cases and successful approaches for implementing professional training according to the needs of Industry 4.0. Our focus on people and their skills, as transversal competencies, present many technology use cases that illustrate the changes occurring at the company level and the resulting benefits for both organizations and employees. In addition, three types of technologies are described as examples: enabling technologies, process improvement technologies, and organization improvement technologies.

Catalog “Skills and Competences in Industry 4.0”. Valuable information, together with all good practices, are presented in a special catalog that can be downloaded for free from anywhere in the world. Link https://industryfourzero-skills.eu/best-practices-catalog /.

Database. All good practices can be searched and downloaded separately from our purpose-built electronic platform, position on our website. The database is publicly available here: https://industryfourzero-skills.eu/database/.

Forum. We have created a Facebook page and group as a forum for discussion and various topics. There we promote various materials, educational videos, articles that present opportunities and obstacles that Industry 4.0 brings to businesses and employees.

Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/industry4skills/ .

Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/industry4skills/

Nomadland in Slovenia

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Three-day meeting in Idrija, June 21 – 23, 2022

Idrija, Slovenia

An introductory face-to-face meeting of the Nomadland project partners was held in Idrija and was aimed at reviewing the project work already started in April ’22 and planning future activities.

Additionally, the ID20 hosts had organized an interesting tour of beautiful Idrija and its surroundings. We visited the Giser mining house, emblematic of the region, with interest. We also went to the Zgornja Idrijca Landscape Park and got to know the culinary and other beauties of the Ledin Plateau.

Nomadland is a European project funded by the Erasmus+ program, aimed at a growing group of people who are increasingly imposing a new trend in the way of working and living – these are the digital nomads. They travel the world and can work anywhere as long as they have a computer and a good internet connection. Rural areas have great potential to become a desirable destination for digital nomads and a preferred place to stay and work. On the other hand, in this way a negative trend associated with the outflow of young people from rural areas can be significantly reduced.

That is why the Nomadland project presents a completely new look at the countryside as an entry point for digital nomads and, therefore, the development of young people in the countryside.

Nomadland project is co-financed by the European Commission as part of the Erasmus+ project.

Stay tuned for more from our work in Nomadland.

Great support is opening up for initial steps towards IP protection

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INI-Novation Bulgaria is proud to be partner of the so-called LEARN IP project consortium. The LEARN-IP project targets the development and exploitation of an online training programme to support cultural heritage managers and cultural tourism actors with the effective use of digital technologies to check for compliance with Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regulations.
IPR generation has hardly been included in the curricula of formal cultural heritage and tourism education. This has to be changed, because IPR can not only protect rights, but can also be used to develop new business opportunities for those involved. European IPR owners need access to effective ways of protecting their values internationally for growth and competitiveness to avoid that the economic and social potential of IPRs gets lost. They need skills to identify, protect, apply and valorise it. When their ideas, brands and products are pirated and counterfeited, expertise and jobs are affected.

This is exactly where our LEARN-IP comes in: the training programme will act as an online “guided tour” through IPR regulations and will indicate what can be done to legally protect your property, expertise and knowledge. The training will also show when professional help is recommended.This is considered to be very important, because in the professional world very often there is also a financial issue, since legal advice for IPR can be expensive and can hardly be covered by smaller institutions.

In 2021, great support is opening up for financing initial steps towards IP protection: The “Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund” is a 20 million Euro grant scheme created to help European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access their intellectual property rights. Supported by the European Commission and the EUIPO, the “Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund” is aimed at businesses that wish to develop their IP strategies and protect their IP rights, at national, regional or EU level. The fund is covering IP pre-diagnostic services (IP scan) and/or trade mark and design applications. Each SME can be reimbursed up to a maximum of EUR 1 500. More information can be found on the Ideas Powered for business hub: https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/online-services/sme-fund. 

If you are interested in the LEARN-IP project and if you would need support in setting up your IP strategy, please contact us under info@ini-novation.com.

European project SKIVRE – Multiplier event in Bulgaria

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Topic of the event “Development of skills for valorisation of the European religious heritage and good practices”

The Bulgarian capital Sofia hosted an event organized by “INI-Novation Bulgaria” OOD. under the European project SKIVRE on October 26, 2020.

Participants were representatives from different sectors such as tourism, regional development, students at the Faculty of Theology at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“, representatives of monastic shops and retailers offering monastic products, as well as other stakeholders interested in the topic “Development of skills for valorization of European religious heritage and good practice”.

The event was organized as a multiplier seminar in Bulgaria in the name of the European project SKIVRE, funded by ERASMUS+ Programme. It presented the results that the partners in the project achieved during their two years of hard work: the SKIVRE Training Program including 10 learning modules and the illustration of many good practices. They were demonstrated during the event as well as the SKIVRE’s online training platform, through which all training materials can be freely accessed by interested stakeholders for self-learning purposes (https://training.skivre.eu/main/toolbox.php).

Topics such as “Monastery production as an exciting connection between the past and the future” were presented by Ms. Diana Georgieva, as well as the results of a market analysis study conducted in 20 European monasteries by the SKIVRE project partners under the lead of Ms. Angela Ivanova from “INI-Novation Bulgaria” OOD. Video presentations of the good practices from Bulgaria “The Kremikovtsi Monastery “St. George the Victorious”, Tsurnogorski Monastery ” St. Kozma and Damian” and the German Monastery “Kloster Bronnbach ” were shown.

Dr. Wolfgang Kniejski, Managing Director of “INI-Novation Bulgaria” OOD, presented an in-depth analysis of the role of monastic products in the development of the regions and the tourism industry. Examples of good practice were provided and many questions were discussed on how to build successful cooperation and networks of interaction between the representatives of tourism and monasteries in a given region.

Additionally, the seminar included external speakers, such as Ms. Blagovesta Chifligarova, an expert in the field of tourism in Bulgaria. She shared her experience in the field of religious tourism in Bulgaria with the other participants, presenting the topic “Religious tourism and its benefits for the development of the regions.” Other external participants also got involved and introduced the audience to their good practices. Due to the great interest and the inability to attend in person, participants had the opportunity to join and participate online in the event.