NEXTFOOD Educating the next generation of professionals in the agrifood system

Martin Melin, Swedish Uinversity of Agricultural Sciences Educating the next generation of professionals in the agrifood system

Program: Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-RUR-2016-2017 Topic: RUR-13-2017 Budget: 7 Million Euro Duration: 1/5/2018 - 31/4/2022 A consortium of 19 partners

Sweden SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET (SLU) (coordinator) LUNDS UNIVERSITET (LU) Romania UNIVERSITATEA DIN ORADEA (UNIOR) Czech Rep.JIHOCESKA UNIVERZITA V CESKYCH BUDEJOVICICH (USB) Norway NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPLIGE UNIVERSITET (NMBU) Greece AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL POST SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING ASSOCIATION (AFS) Italy ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA (UNIBO) Czech rep. BIOINSTITUT (Bioinstitut) Sweden FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN (SKOGFORSK) Greece AGRONUTRIOTIONAL COOPERATION OF THE REGION OF CENTRAL MACEDONIA (ACRCM) CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE HAUTES ETUDES AGRONOMIQUES MEDITERRANEENNES (CIHEAM) Germany DEUTSCHE WELTHUNGERHILFE E.V. (WHH) Egypt SEKEM DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (SDF) Etiopia MEKELLE UNIVERSITY (Mekelle) Greece ALEXANDREIO TECHNOLOGIKO EKPAIDEITIKO IDRYMA THESSALONIKIS (ATEITH) Austria ISEKI-Food Association (ISEKI) PROFESSIONSHOJSKOLEN METROPOL (MUC) Italy UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SCIENZE GASTRONOMICHE (UNISG) UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE (UChile) The overall aim

The overall aim of NEXTFOOD is to generate an innovative European science and education road map for sustainable agriculture and forestry along the value chain from research via production into application.

NEXTFOOD will drive the crucial transition to more sustainable and competitive agrifood and forestry systems development by designing and implementing education and training systems to prepare budding or already practicing professionals with competencies to push the green shift in our rapidly changing society.

NEXTFOOD will challenge the linear view of knowledge transfer as a top- down process from research to advice and practice, and support the transition to more learner-centric, participatory, and action-oriented education and learning in agrifood and forestry systems. Action learning happens in the complex world outside the classroom – on farms, and in agrifood and forestry systems Objectives

• Create an inventory of the skills and competencies needed for a transition to more sustainable agriculture, forestry and associated bio-value chains • Facilitate case studies to identify gaps and needs • Test new relevant curricula and training methods • Identify policy instruments that support the transition towards action-, and practice-oriented learning • methods • Peer-review tools for evaluating quality of the practice- oriented research • Create a platform for knowledge sharing WP1; A shared inventory of skills

NEXTFOOD WP2; Action research facilitation cases

WP3; WP5; WP4; Pilots Education and Policy Quality assurance training systems development & of research output recommendation

WP6; Stakeholder involvement; Collaboration and learning within consortium; Dissemination of results beyond consortium

WP7; Project management Work Packages and Tasks

WP 1 WP 2 WP 3 WP 4 WP 5 WP 6 WP 7

T1.1 Inventory of T2.1 Planning of T3.1 Create T4.1 Diagnosis of T5.1 Review of T6.1 DEO-plan T7.1 Strategic skills action research framework the existing policies existing best management & in cases NF model practices internal comm.

T1.2 Gaps in T2.2 Mentoring T3.2 Training of T4.2 Strategies T5.2 Develop av T6.2 Public T7.2 Progress research and and supervision the NF model in for improvement framework for dialogue, monitoring education of cases cases evaluation

T1.3 Road- T3.3 Evaluation T4.3Design of T5.3Pilot-testing T6.3 Stakeholder T7.3 Financials & mapping for of effects on new policy involvement administration improvement learning instruments

T4.4 Assessing T7.4 Legal gender-diff. compliance impact

T7.4 Ethics Integration of cases and the other work packages

Existing training and education systems External case environment Stakeholders WP1 Development of cases WP4

Policy instruments Current WP2 & 3 understanding of learning

WP5 Current knowledge WP6 in sustainability Incentives for practice- oriented research Cross-cutting processes

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 WP7

Action Learning within the consortium

Integration of cases and other work packages

Cross-cutting Sustainable food and forestry systems processes Social justice/gender

Long-term impact