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SHERPA

[2019 – 2023]

Sustainable Hub to Engage into Rural Policies with Actors

SHERPA aims to gather knowledge that contributes to the formulation of recommendations for future policies relevant to EU rural areas, by creating a science-society-policy interface which provides a hub for knowledge and policy.

SHERPA will contribute to policy development in three main areas:

Provision of inputs for the design of future research policies, with a focus on the preparation of work programmes under Horizon Europe.
Support for implementation of policies relevant to rural areas in the programming period 2021-2027; and
Supporting for setting the direction of rural policy in the next programming period.
To achieve this, the project will:

Map the main drivers of future trends and dynamics of EU rural areas;
Establish 40 Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs) across the EU as effective and sustainable Science-Society-Policy interfaces;
Create a shared knowledge base relevant to EU rural policy by taking stock of results of past and ongoing research projects;
Engage in a dialogue between citizens, researchers and policy-makers across EU territories;
Formulate recommendations linked to different scenarios for the development of modern rural policies at European, national and regional levels, as well as for the future rural research agenda.

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Source of funding

European Union: Horizon 2020

Programme and contact references

Project Coordinator: Olivier Chartier and Elodie Salle (ECORYS), Belgique, sherpa@ecorys.com
Project Manager at CIHEAM Montpellier: Samuel Féret, feret@iamm.fr

RUR’UP

[October 2020 – September 2022]

Innovative education for sustainable development in peripheral rural areas

RUR’UP is an international cooperation project between Higher Education Institutions (HEI), intergovernmental organisations and rural development stakeholders, funded by the EU Programme Erasmus+. The project aims to support Higher Education institutions in equipping their graduates with skills and competencies relevant for specific labour market and societal needs of peripheral rural regions in the EU (HNV areas). The project will develop new e-learning blended modules through an educational transdisciplinary approach and by using innovative pedagogies such as student-centred and project problem -based learning, and therefore, will support the development of the HEI curricula based on learning-outcomes. Specifically, the project will also develop and test a unique modular course design (including online, intensive learning modules and case studies and on-field work.

RUR’UP is built up on HNV-Link H2020 project:

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Objectives

Peripheral rural areas play an essential role in our territories and contribute to the sustainable development of agro-pastoralism, to the preservation of the environment, and are essential for biodiversity, rural heritage and traditional practices, while improving the socio-economic conditions of rural communities. However, there is still a gap between professional needs and student’s practices and skills. Teachers and academia should bridge this gap and enlarge teaching and learning scope while raise awareness among future professionals on peripheral rural specificities.

Activities

Main activities of RUR’UP are the following:

The assessment of the education needs and gaps for the sustainable development of the EU peripheral rural areas
Elaboration of a blended e-learning course
Elaboration of a Bank of Case Studies – including ready-to-use training capsules
Development of a Digital Teaching Platform and Digital Learning Resource
Organisation of an training on-field Intensive Study Activity

Results et Impacts

Main expected outputs and impacts are to:

Build understanding on the specific needs by the labor market in peripheral rural regions (high nature value areas – HNV areas)
Support curricula development to ensure learning for the skills and competencies
Strengthen collaboration between HE and potential regional and cross-regional employers
Support professional competencies of the HE educators in such regions, and
Contribute to the international pool of open educational resources (OER).

The project will enhance skills and professional competencies of at least one hundred (100) participating students and fifty (50) academic staff and researchers.
Therefore, RUR’UP will have a positive impact on field approaches concerning sustainable development of peripheral areas.

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Coordinator

University of Thessaly (UTH) – Grèce

More details

Source of funding: Hellenic National Agency – Erasmus+ Programme (IKY – Greece)
Programme and contacts: Maite Puig de Morales, CIHEAM Montpellier (puigdemorales@iamm.fr)
Partners:

University of Helsinki (UH) – Finlande
University of National and World Economy (UNWE) – Bulgarie
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj Napoca (USAMV-Cluj) – Roumanie
Galway-Mayo Institut of Technology (GMIT) – Irlande
University of Osijek, Croatia (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (UNIOS) – Croatie
CIHEAM Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) – France

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.