Herbal.Mednet kick-off meeting in Alcala

Today and tomorrow the kick-off meeting of the Leonardo DaVinci Transfer of innovation project is taking place in Alcala. This project will transfer training content that has been tested in Spain and Romania into Italy and Greece, as well as in new geographical region users’ group in Spain.

During the next 2 years, Herbal.Mednet participants will select and adapt existing training contents in organic farming of herbal, medicinal and aromatic plants that is publicly available worldwide to the countries of the participating user groups. At the same time, the project will transfer the innovative training techniques that have been developed for the agricultural advisors and trainers in organic Agriculture through previous initiatives like Organic.Mednet and Organic.Balkanet into agricultural advisors in a new thematic area: organic farming in herbal, medicinal and aromatic plants. In the picture above these lines, representatives of all partner institutions and other external experts pose in the rectorate building of the University of Alcala, where the sessions of the meeting are taking place.

IE member Salvador is representing UAH in the project, in which we are leading WP3 dealing with the design and deployment of the e-learning platform where the courses will be delivered.

 

Final Organic.Balkanet meeting and European workshop in Bucharest

This week the Organic.Balkanet project officially comes to an end. The final meeting is taking place in the University of Agronomical and Veterinary Sciences of Bucharest, Romania, where representatives of all project partners are joining forces to present the results of all work packages and establish the final tasks to achieve before the final report.

Panorama of our last joint dinner... we are all going to miss these good moments :')

As part of the activities, a European workshop called “Training challenges for Agricultural Professionals: the Organic.Balkanet experience” has been organized to disseminate project results and receive feedback from stakeholders and policy makers.

Panorama of the main conference room - European workshop

IE members Salvador Sanchez and Miguel Refusta are in Bucharest these days to present the results of work package 3 which was lead by our group, and also to contribute to the workshop with several presentations about the work of the group in e-courses administration, sustainability and other related efforts such as the VOA3R project.

 

Organic.Balkanet project meeting in Maribor

These 2 days, representatives of the partner institutions in the Organic.Balkanet Leonardo da Vinci  Transfer of Innovation project are in Maribor, Slovenia. This fairly unknown but beautiful country is hosting this important 4th meeting where we will take the decissions that will guide the final 6 months of our project. IE member Salvador Sanchez is attending the sessions which are taking place in the Rectorate building of the University of Maribor.

Representatives of several partner institutions pose in front of the Rectorate building of the University of Maribor