GROW - Grow your own tree

Self-sufficiency motivator

Recommendations for development of new profession profile and for its placement at the system level
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GROW – Grow your own tree
EU Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Small-scale partnerships in Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Reference: 2022-1-SI01-KA210-VET-000084409
Start date: 01/10/2022
End date: 01/10/2024

The main aim is to explore possibilities and to build the first foundations for the development of a new profession/job profile called “Motivator for self-sufficiency«. Potential adults who can gain this new profession/job are adults who work as volunteers in adult education sector (VET, public, private, NGOs) and have interest to motivate other adults to start with self-sufficiency in food, especially long-term unemployed, passive, from urban or rural areas who lack knowledge of self-sufficiency.

Great attention is given on promoting social inclusion aiming at improving the outreach to people with fewer opportunities (diverse range of participants). Using the inclusive approach, GROW will contribute to the creation of inclusive environments that are responsive to the needs of the wider community in current time of crisis. Furthermore, the project is promoting green skills and social responsibility of education institutions, as it encourages the mindset that self-sufficiency is not just a matter of the agricultural sector, but much more broadly.

Objectives

To explore possibilities and to build the first foundations for the development of a new profession/job profile called “Motivator for self-sufficiency«.
To empower adult volunteers to start-up with self-sufficiency through gaining practical skills based on their active participation in all project activities from the beginning of the project and through work-based learning experience at local farms.
To exchange and collect best EU practices from the field of motivating to acquire skills for self-sufficiency in food and consequently to reach greater independence.

Activities

Work Based Learning experiences: upgrading skills for self-sufficiency by volunteering work at local farms to get familiar with the whole process from the seed to the crop and improved green skills.
Online workshops with stakeholders to exchange opinions, experience and set up new ideas how to design new job profile, where is needed (in which sectors) and how it could be integrated in system level.

Resources

Collection of Best Practices in the field of self-sufficiency, organic farming, rules, policies etc.
OER for beginners on the field of self-sufficiency “How to start with growing your own tree”: open, online space for all interested in agriculture especially long-term unemployed, who don’t have the opportunity to put their knowledge and competencies into practice.
Needs analysis: Identifying the needs by exchanging experience of EU countries and Development of recommendations for creation of “new job profile”.

Results

Improved situation in the field of nutritional security among the most vulnerable groups of adults, the long-term unemployed.
Enhanced capacity through work-based learning for new profession “Motivator for self-sufficiency”.
Increased flexibility of opportunities in vocation education and training, as new profession can be reached based on the recognition of nonformal gained knowledge and experience.
Boosted cooperation between producers (local farmers), processors and buyers of locally produced food which can contribute to greater local self-sufficiency and reduces the food import dependence.

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