Livestock Organic - LivOrg
Design and testing new frameworks for the transfer and recognition of organic livestock management skills in Europe
project period: 01.12.2013 - 30.11.2015
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Lifelong Learning Programme: LEONARDO DA VINCI Multilateral Projects for Development of innovation
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- 01/2016: 5th Newsletter
- 11/2015: Final project meeting in Tartu, Estonia
- 11/2015: 5th project meeting in Tartu, Estonia
- 10/2015: Seminar: Organic Farming in vocational educational training
- 10/2015: 4th Newsletter
- 08/2015: 2nd E-brochure
- 07/2015: 4th Project meeting in Chania, Greece
- 05/2015: 3rd Newsletter
- 02/2015: 3rd Project meeting in Dresden, Germany
- 02/2015: End of the German Pilot Course "Practitioner in Organic Livestock Management"
- 10/2014: 1st E-brochure
- 09/2014: 2nd Newsletter
- 09/2014: Start of the German Pilot Course "Practitioner in Organic Livestock Management" in Dresden in collaboration with the University of Cooperative Education Saxony - Dresden State Academy and Gaea e.V.
- 07/2014: 2nd Project meeting in Valladolid, Spain
- 06/2014: LivOrg at the 9th Organic Marketing Forum in Warsaw
- 03/2014: 1st Newsletter
- 01/2014: 1st Project meeting in Rome, Italy
Aims of the project
- Increase the awareness of organic livestock management to meet the sector and policymakers needs in the EU improving the system to be competitive with conventional processes.
- Extend the sector skills alliance activities reinforcing the effective cooperation between organic famers and stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver a specific-sector curriculum with a stronger package of “VET“ Units in organic livestock management, strongly connected with EQF and ECVET system.
- Improve the quality of training systems through the development of innovative contents, methods and procedures within VET system.
Actions
- Creation of a pilot VET curriculum for organic livestock production. This will be modular curriculum and available in different versions for different target groups.
- Design and implementation of a pilot training course of 80 hours in all partner country, with the aim of testing the developed curricula
- Form a "focus group organic livestock" in each partner country with stakeholders from businesses and educational institutions to discuss the actions and results of the project.
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Development of counseling methods to support entry of members of ethnic minorities into organic livestock production.
- Development of an evaluation system to measure the results of training and education that is based on the European evaluation standards in education (EQARF).
- Development of a compendium on educational content and evaluation results.
- Realise a workshop in each of the 6 project partner countries to present the project results and the explain of the curricula.
- Creation of videos for the presentation and dissemination of the developed training programms in the languages of the project partners.
- Creation of a "fan page" for social networks to inform young people, students, teachers, interested citizens on organic livestock production.
Results
The following results of the LivOrg project can be downloaded here:
- Pilot VET curriculum for organic livestock production. This is a modular curriculum and can be adapted to the needs of different target groups.
- educational content for the different training units:
- Trainingsunit 1: Animal health - Disease prevention and alternative treatment methods
- Trainingsunit 2: Feeding and Housing systems in organic livestock production
- Trainingsunit 3: Organic Certification
- Trainingsunit 4: Health and Safety Rules
- Videos for presentation and dissemination of the developed training programms in each partner country