Organic.Edunet
Definition
Organic.Edunet is a multilingual federation of learning repositories with quality content, which support the awareness and education of European Youth about topics related to Organic Agriculture and Agroecology.
Duration:
36 months, October 2007 - September 2010
Objectives:
Organic.Edunet aims to facilitate access, usage and exploitation of digital educational content related to Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology. It will deploy a multilingual online federation of learning repositories, populated with quality content from various content producers. In addition, it will deploy a multilingual online environment (the Organic.Edunet Web portal) that will facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, access and use of the content in the learning repositories. The project will study educational scenarios that introduce the use of the Organic.Edunet portal and content to support teaching of topics related to OA and Agroecology in two cases of formal educational systems, i.e., high-schools and agricultural universities. Furthermore, it will evaluate project results in the context of pilot demonstrators in pilot educational institutions, as well as through external networks of interested stakeholders. Organic.Edunet focuses on achieving interoperability between the digital collections of OA and Agroecology content that producers in various EU countries have developed, as well as facilitating publication, access, and use of this content in multilingual learning contexts through a single European reference point. In this way, digital content that can be used to educate European Youth about the benefits of OA and Agroecology, will become easily accessible, usable and exploitable.
Funding:
The project is funded by the eContentplus Programme
Partrners :
Greek Research & Technology Network S.A. (Project Coordinator, Greece), Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), Ellinogermaniki Agogi Scholi Panagea-Savva S.A. (Greece), Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (Austria), Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Schwechat (Austria), OU Miksike (Estonia), Estonian University of Life Sciences, Intute-University of Nottingham (UK), Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (Hungary), Magyar Ökológiai Gazdálkodásért Egyesület (Hungary), Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice si Medicina Veterinara Bucuresti (Romania), University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Project Manager: Xenofon Tsilibaris
