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IPAUP

[July 2020 – June 2022]

Educational innovation for the development of urban and peri-urban agriculture

The IPAUP project is co-financed by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and within the framework of the Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects or “Seed Fund to support projects to support the development of higher education French in West and Central Africa (ADESFA II) ”. It is coordinated by the International Center for Pedagogical Studies (CIEP), now FEI.

Trainers and teachers in higher or professional Moroccan agricultural education (initial or lifelong education), are the main target of the project.

The project benefits from the experience of the multidisciplinary group of French project partners, at CIHEAM-IAMM in Montpellier, and in the following structures affiliated to Agreenium: INPT-ENSAT in Toulouse, Institut Agro Montpellier, INRAE, and CIRAD in Montpellier.

The IPAUP project is an action-training based on project-based pedagogy. It aims to design and produce digital educational ressources on the theme of AUP, thanks to close collaboration between the Moroccan and French teams, both in terms of didactic content and educational engineering.

Goals

The Moroccan team will strengthen its skills in innovative pedagogies for hybrid dissemination (face-to-face / distance). She will create the scenarios and resources for the course while taking charge of new distance training tools and innovative teaching methods; she will independently supervise a test session of the product chapters.
A Moodle platform will be created at ENAM to distribute this course as well as the School’s other online training courses.
A 40-hour hybrid course will be carried out for a professional audience, with 15% face-to-face (2 face-to-face meetings) and 85% at a distance.
A course intended for engineering students will be declined, with additional activities, in particular conceptual.

In the medium term, this project should enable ENAM to pursue the following objectives:

Create a resource center for educational innovation at ENAM for the teaching and learning of AUP;
Approach the next 2023/2024 accreditation campaign with a revised agricultural engineer training, prepared for greater internationalization;
Restore gender balances in the recruitment and employability of learners in the AUP sector, especially women;
Develop a mechanism for dialogue with the social, socio-economic and public policy sectors, for greater employability of learners;
Provide a renovated quality assurance framework to evaluate the training produced by the new resource center for educational innovation.

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Source of funding

ADESFA II

Programme and contact references

Pierre Grenier – AGREENIUM

SMART AL

[October 2017 – March 2022]

Master in European Innovations for a Sustainable Management of Albanian Territories, rural areas and agriculture: Instruments, policies, strategies

The SmartAL Project –Sustainable management of Albanian Territories, rural areas and agriculture: Instrument, policies, strategies– was selected by the European Commission in August 2017.

It is undertaken under the framework of the Erasmus+ programme “Cooperation for Innovation and the exchange of good practices – Capacity building in the field of Higher Education”, which purpose is to modernize higher education systems. SmartAL aims at promoting sustainable development of rural territories in Albania –the partner Western Balkan country– and contributing more broadly to its process of integration into the European Union.

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Objectives

SmartAL’s main objective is to strengthen the capacities of three Albanian universities by creating a Master 2 which complies with the European specifications. Focusing on the sustainable development of Albanian rural and agricultural areas, by the use of instruments, policies and strategies, the final objective is to complete the accreditation process of this Master, in line with the Albanian legal framework and the European standards (Bologna Process).

Teaching Content

The Master will be composed of 9 modules: a common basis of 5 modules led by the Agricultural University of Tirana (UBT), completed by 4 specialization modules with 2 alternative options, respectively supported by the European University of Tirana (UET) and the University Fan S. Noli Korçë (UNKO). Such inter-university cooperation has the benefit of a strong territorial anchorage ensuring the coherence between the teaching content and territorial needs.

The pedagogical content, intended for Albanian junior executives and decision makers, will enable them to develop the necessary skills to participate to the European negotiation dialogue, but also to implement public policies in a national context of structural reforms with regard to decentralization.

Methodology

After a first survey conducted among institutional partners, professional organizations and private partners, which lead to the identification of employment needs (Job Market Review), the training contents to be developed and the European universities likely to provide them will be identified.

Albanian teachers will then beneficiate from a training and coaching by European universities in a view to co-build the pedagogical content of the future Master.

The European universities (teachers and students), and the partners implied in the consortium as a whole, will be mobilized for training seminars (in and ex-situ), field studies, PhD internships and public feedback conferences. The development of the project, as well as the designing of teaching modules, will be committed to a quality approach in order to ensure a continuous improvement process.

Coordinator

CIHEAM-IAM Montpellier – France

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Source of funding : Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education (co-funding)

Contact : Magali Maire, CIHEAM-IAMM (maire@iamm.fr)

Total budget : 758 308 €

Partners :

Fan S. Noli University Korce (UNKO) – Albania
Universiteti Europian i Tiranës (U.E.T. SHPK) – Albania
Universiteti Bujqesor i Tiranës (UBT) – Albania
Panteio Panepistimio Koinonikon Kaipolitikon Epistimon (UPSPS) – Greece
Universitaet Hohenheim (UHOH) – Germany
Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier (UPV) – France
(Associated partner) Ministry of Education and Sports – Albania
(Associated partner) Albanian Network for Rural Development – Albania
(Associated partner) Ministry of Agriculture and rural development – Albania
(Associated partner) Ministry of urban development – Albania
(Associated partner) Korçe regional Council – Albania

FEBSMed

[November 2020 – April 2022]

Favorisons l’Économie Bleue Solidaire en Méditerranée

Favoriser une sortie de la crise socio-économique générée par la Covid-19 par la voie de la promotion de l’Économie Bleue Solidaire (EBS) comme secteur résilient et durable général.

Objectif général:
Coordonner une action d’identification des acteurs de l’EBS dans l’Eurorégion Pyrénées-Méditerranée

Objectifs spécifiques:

Identification et mapping des acteurs actifs dans l’EBS
Création de synergies et de connexion entre les acteurs
Organisation d’événements de réseautage et collaboration
Elaboration d’une stratégie d’actions d’appui à l’EBS au profit de l’Eurorégion Pyrénées-Méditerranée

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Source de financement

Eurorégion Pyrénées-Méditerranée

Programme et contacts

Coordinateur: Innovació i Economia Social en la Mediterrània, SCEL, IesMed
Responsable du projet au CIHEAM Montpellier: Zied Ahmed, ahmed@iamm.fr

Partenaires

IES MED, Innovació i Economia Social en la Mediterrània
Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes – Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM Montpellier)
Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz Islas Baleares, ACPP

DEVLOK

[November 2017 – July 2021]

Implementation of a participative and inclusive approach to support the maritime, agricultural and rural economy of the Kerkennah islands based on a sustainable mobilisation of the local resources

Elaboration of a local governance process in the Kerkennah Islands that ensures the inclusive dialogue between the involved stakeholders and their participation in the definition, implementation and monitoring of a sustainable territorial development strategy which takes into account the current issues of the territory.

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Objective

Reinforce the maritime, agricultural and rural economy of the Kerkennah Islands by supporting economic and social initiatives that enhance the local and specific resources of the Kerkennah Islands for the benefits of the overall population.

Target Groups

Governance: local institutions, local consultative structures, development associations, professional organizations that will participate in the governance of the territory
Economic and social initiatives: professionals and professional organizations, local development organizations, projects leaders, business support structuresui aux entreprises

Activities

To reach its objectives, the project is implemented in five steps including capacity building, training, support to public and private initiatives, monitoring and evaluation:

Step 1 – Elaboration of the management processes (methodology and planning of actions)
Step 2 – Creation of dialogue forums and reinforcement of the participative processes (elaboration of the local governance process)
Step 3 – Joint elaboration and validation of the territorial development process (ensure that the process is in line with the already existing, public or private, territorial development interventions)
Step 4 – Identification, selection and support in the implementation of the social and economic initiatives carried out by the private or public stakeholders (implementation and monitoring of the territorial strategy)
Step 5 – Capitalization and valorisation of the project achievements

Results

A Local Development Committee (LDC), an operational forum for dialogue and for a collective management of the project
500 people from the Kerkennah Islands have an increased awareness of the development challenges of the territory and regularly participate in the dialogues and coordination meetings
100 local stakeholders (public, private, development organizations, civil society) have reinforced their capacities in the fields of inclusive and participative processes, territorial and local planning, economic development
A territorial project, which integrates both the needs of the local population and the national strategic orientations, is elaborated and officially approved
40 economic and social projects, in line with the territorial project, are supported in their long-term establishment
The partnership with the European development organizations is dynamic and adapted to the needs of the territory
The national and European public institutions promote the achievements of the project in their policies.

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Contacts :

Jean-Paul PELLISSIER – CIHEAM-IAMM – pellissier@iamm.fr
Zied AHMED – CIHEAM-IAMM – ahmed@iamm.fr

ValueTEAM

[2018 – 2020]

Local and international valorization of Mediterranean agri-food products through quality certifications. The case of Dates Sector

The main objective of this research project is to explore ways of improving the value in the dates supply chains in three Southern Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia called “South”) and one Northern country (France, called “North”).

The overall objective of the project is to analyze the constraints and opportunities associated with the national and international development of the Dates sector in the southern countries targeted by the project, through the implementation of quality marks. Indeed, the project aims to identify and evaluate, through an analysis of the interactions between the public and private strategies and modes of professional organizations, the effectiveness of value creation dynamics for a local Mediterranean products: dates.

To reach this goal, the project starts from the idea that the behavior of local value chains stakeholders are strategic responses to government actions. We will analyze these complex interactions, identifying their effects on the formation of prices in domestic markets and on the access to domestic and international markets.

The project will consist of three main axes:

Market opportunities and supply chain organization for local agri-food products in domesticmarkets,
International food Supply-chains: structure, strategies and value sharing,
Consumer perceptions, expectations and attitudes towards mark signs of the local product studied.

ValueTeam will address the issues raised above through new methodological approaches, including value chain approach with focus on quantitative analysis, models of industrial organization and models of operational research, applied on data collected from field surveys. The mechanisms of coordination and management of professional organizations will be analyzed as well as to assess their capacity to promote the emergence of dynamic valuable supply of local products along with fair distribution of value throughout the selected supply chains in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

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