A presentation given in May 2019 in Nitra Slovakia as part of the first expert peer-review event held as part of the KA3 Erasmus Plus SEED Project. This presentation introduced the project and the research findings on digital farming, related qualifications and competences.

1. 1st Peer-review event in SK
Presentation of the
project and the reseach
results
www.digitalseed.eu

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LOVENSKÁPOĽ
NOHOSPODÁR
SKAUNIVERZIT
A
NITRA
The SEED project
Altheo Valentini, EGInA Srl

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Project ID
TITLE Smart Entrepreneurial Education and training in Digital farming
CALL KA3: Joint Qualifications in Vocational Education and Training
DURATION 2 years (September 2018 – August 2020)
PARTNERS 7 partners from 4 Countries (Italy, Belgium, Slovakia, Spain) + 13
associated partners
TARGET VET centres, companies and students/apprentices involved in EQF5
Agrifood training paths
ACTIONS • Development of a new VET qualification profile: “Expert in Digital
Agriculture” (built on modular units of LOs mapped on both
EntreComp and DigComp)
• Enhancement of work based learning activites in existing curricula
• 3 months transnational mobility for 10 beneficiaries in each Country

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• How the digital transformation impacts on the
AgriFood chain?
• What is the state of the art about the
digitalization of agriculture, agri-industry and the
overall AgriFood sector?
• Which digital technologies have achieved a
big impact on the different sector chains (meat,
fish, milk, vegetables), on the cross-chain
contact points and on the elements that
transversally interests all the sectors?
• How to assess the impacts of Digital
Transformation on AgriFood chains to highlight
the cross-chain contact points and the socio-
economic consequences of it?

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Project structure
Developing and testing
(part of) the curricular path
Validation and recognition
from the authorities
Units
elaboration
Experimenin
g the
assessment
criteria
(Transnatio
nal
mobility)
VET
(meta)Curriculm
in Digital
Agricolture
Analysis of existing EQF5
Agrifood profiles

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Partnership structure UMBRAFLOR
CIUFFELLI (IT)
Research and
pilot
UNIGENT (BE)
All activities
UNINITRA (SK)
All activities
AIN (ES)
All activities
EGINA
Coordination
and evaluation
EUROGEO
Dissemination
and exploitation

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Workplan
09/18
10/18
11/18
12/18
01/19
02/19
03/19
04/19
05/19
06/19
07/19
08/19
09/19
10/19
11/19
12/19
01/20
02/20
03/20
04/20
05/20
06/20
07/20
08/20
WP1 – Management and
evaluation
WP2 – Definition of a joint
qualification in Digital Farming
WP3 – Elaboration of a joint
curriculum in Digital Farming
WP4 – Elaboration of assessment
standards for quality assurance
WP5 – Dissemination and
exploitation of the results

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LOVENSKÁPOĽ
NOHOSPODÁR
SKAUNIVERZIT
A
NITRA
WP Research results
Altheo Valentini, EGInA Srl

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Desk & Field research
DigiComp & EntreComp mapping exercise.
Objectives
The aim of the research was reaching a better understanding of the state-of-the-art of
the qualifications in digital farming – looking at the country specificities of each partner –
in order to have a clear comparative reference framework, base for the design of the
joint “new” qualification(s) system.
Two main goals were assumed:
→ identify and describe, in a comprehensive manner, the existing digital qualifications
in the agricultural field;
→ draft a broad view of the main changing factors and trends, understanding the key
innovation drivers, in order to better shape the common qualification design.

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Not only EQF5
Total coverage of the
public/formal qualifications
between EQF 4 and 6 of the
agrifood sector.
Not only Formal
Near/related field of the non
formal qualifications in the
agro-digital domain,
choosing a few relevant
cases, applying a “value-
driven” approach
Not only Agricult.
Explore the digital training
field not directly related to
the agriculture, but
identified as an enabling
innovation factor.
Desk Research, the methodology.

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287 courses
Out of which 250 are from
formal education and 37
form non-formal education.
Main agricultural domains
Few formal qualifications (EQF 5 or 6) strongly oriented
to the digital farming. Explicit or, more often, near-
implicit presence of digital contents in a broad range of
agricultural qualifications (EQF 3 or 4).
Desk Research, some statistics.
Italy, 62
Spain,
161
Belgium,
39
Slovakia,
25
91
81
48
45
20
56
0 20 40 60 80 100
Agro-forestry
Crop-farming
Fisheries and acquaculture
Livestock production
Not-domain specific
Other

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Main value-chain processes interested, some statistics.
32
100
193
118
41
40
38
6
4
45
0 50 100 150 200 250
Market analysis and forecasting
Production planning
Production management (use of the productive factors, environmental
impacts, sustainability)
Production quality control
Traceability and Quality assurance
Logistic (included integration in the local networks and in the value
chain of the buyers)
Selling (i.e. e-commerce)
Community Shared Agriculture (CSA)
Short-chain production (0km – Selling from the house)
Other

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Main digital domains interested, some statistics.
62
125
83
31
45
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
Thinking and modelling business and productive processes
Gathering, collecting, integrating, evaluating and using
product/process data
Controlling and process automation
Identifying, buying and using digital hardware and software
technologies
Other

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Analysis main findings
•Cross-innovation between several fields
•Local innovation and domain-specific applications more relevant than a systemic
approach
•A gap between the “technical” and the “marketing” use of the digital technologies;
•Absence of a clear and “complete” qualification of Expert in Digital Farming.
Widespread digital
knowledge than a specific
professional profile
•Enabling to move from incremental to disruptive innovation effects
•Modularity, scalability, integrability and re-usability of the digital knowledge
•Agro-digital economy, digital marketing and selling, customer satisfaction
“Strategic thinking” is a key
for a really value-added
digital innovation in farming
•Scarce knowledge in order to appreciate the competitive advantages of the digital solutions
•Strong importance of easiness of use, efficiency improvement, sustainability
•Relevant influence of the cultural values, differentiated on the base of the (local) context
specificities
•Importance of the role of the external agents, also included the educational/training
organizations
Entrepreneurial difficulty to
manage the decision making
process

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World Cafè peer-review exercise
Entrepreneurial
attitude
Strategic Thinking
Digital
transformation
• Three working stations and three groups of
reviewers who will visit each station during three
different rounds.
• At each table there is a presenter/rapporteur who
will first introduce the main topic of the table and
then will facilitate the discussion in order to collect
useful comments and suggestion for the
improvement, integration and adaptation of our
research results.
• At the end of the third round, the rapporteur will
sum-up the results of the three sessions of peer-
review.
• Each round will consist of
• 5 minutes of introduction to the module
• 20 minutes of discussion
• 5 minutes of conclusion.

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World Cafè peer-review exercise
Entrepreneurial
attitude
Strategic Thinking
Digital
transformation
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION >>>
KARL DONERT
ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDE >>>
NANCY TARJENIAN
STRATEGIC THINKING >>>
LUCA PAGLIARICCI

17. Thank You
www.digitalseed.eu
S
LOVENSKÁPOĽ
NOHOSPODÁR
SKAUNIVERZIT
A
NITRA