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STRENGTHENING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FARMER AND THE COUNTRYSIDE CHALLENGES OF THE ERASMUS KA2+ PROJECT FEAL FEAL: ERASMUS+ programme, Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, and in the field of Strategic Partnerships for VET multifunctional Farming for the sustainability of European Agricultural Landscapes

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  • Institute for Research on European Agricultural Landscapes e.V. (EUCALAND)

Abstract

The FEAL project: Multifunctional Farming for the sustainability of European agricultural landscapes (EALs) focuses on the vocational training of small, family and young farmers. The FEAL questionnaire survey underlined the importance of the bottom-up approach towards landscape protection. Finding new functions within existing structures and providing them with an adequate maintenance by vital self-sufficient farms practicing diverse activities in the countryside might be a or the sustainable concept for future farming. Nevertheless, non-governmental organisations providing information transfer from state bodies, stakeholders, and experts to farmers have an undisputable role in all participant’s countries. Experts confirmed in the survey that transferring the knowledge on landscape values into a farms business strategy is very important. Some agricultural landscape structures are resilient throughout very different periods and economic systems and these systems rise from historical land uses and contribute to the values of many EALs. Furthermore, these landscape characteristics can drive the farmer to choose the (new) type of farming activities. According to Eurostat data almost three quarters of very small farms in the EU are subsistent. Project’s findings confirmed that small-sized and young farmers struggle everyday with the economic, social or legal obstacles. That’s why new, sustainable economic concepts are needed. Another important output of the project is the implementation of an e-Atlas of EALs, which might be the first step towards a European classification and will also serve as part of the e-learning platform. The e-Atlas is based on the systematic approach of existing classifications of European landscapes (e.g. Meeus et al. 1990). National types are proposed to be consolidated within the database of the European types of agricultural landscapes (currently 44 were defined) that was developed by EUCALAND (Pungetti & Kruse, Eds., 2010). Complementary information about land cover at a regional scale is provided in the Corine Land Cover Map (44 categories). Awareness on landscape values for farmers and stakeholders, as well as inspirational ideas how to improve the quality of the landscape shall be disseminated and become a part of local or regional product trademarks, last but not least allowing them to be embedded into the tourist information system. Thus, farms shall become hotspots in the network of touristic routes. The presentation will present first findings from the FEAL project and how the e-learning materials shall enable young and family farmers in the rural European countryside to continue their farming and landscape maintenance activity but also earn their living.
PECSRL 2018 Conference in Clermont-Ferrand/Mende
6th of September 2018
STRENGTHENING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FARMER AND THE COUNTRYSIDE
CHALLENGES OF THE ERASMUS KA2+ PROJECT FEAL
FEAL: ERASMUS+ programme, Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices,
and in the field of Strategic Partnerships for VET
Dr. Martina Slámová, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
Dr. Alexandra Kruse, EUCALAND, Germany
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
FEAL: MULTIFUNCTIONAL FARMING FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF
EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Duration: 01/12/2016-31/05/2019
Evaluation: 96.5 /100
Budget: 374,469.00
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
PARTNERS
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
FEAL EDUWEB: feal-future.org
Available in 7 languages!
DE, EN, ES, FR , IT, SK, SI
OBJECTIVES
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
European Agricultural Landscapes - EAL
Based on Case Studies and e-atlas of EAL, the FEAL project will offer a flexible
training system to train entrepreneurial skills aiming at sustainable
entrepreneurship in rural areas.
MOTIVATION: STATISTICS
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Around half of the EU land is farmed.
Intensity of farming and landscape values
VET necessity vs. effectiveness
Key EU datasets:
- European Environmental Agency (EEA)
- EUROSTAT
- Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN)
National Agencies and datasets
Field survey, interviews, questionnaires
Source: Eurostat, 2016
European Union agri-environmental indicator
Number and share of participants in vocational trainings
(RDP measure 111) devoted to the environment, EU-27,
2010
European Environment
Agency (EEA);
http://www.eea.europ
a.eu/legal/copyright
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Although the people living in rural areas are surrounded by EAL, their knowledge about them in
terms of cultural value, history and emergence of them as well as their environmental value is limited
(Printsmann, A. et al., 2012).
-historical and descriptive perspective is missing at EU level and available are: Lanmap2 and Corine
- European Landscape Convention (CoE, 2000)
http://www.coe.int/en/web/landscape/home
- The World Heritage Centre (UNESCO), Activity on Cultural Landscapes
http://whc.unesco.org/en/culturallandscape/
- Similar innitiatives: ELO - HERCULES project
http://www.hercules-landscapes.eu/
MOTIVATION: EAL - CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL VALUES
Slovakia Slovenia
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Italy
Small-sized farms provide daily maintenance for the variety of European agricultural landscapes ...
... contributing to the
preservation of the
diversity of European
landscapes and their
ancestral heritage.
Spain
Germany
MOTIVATION: EAL - CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL VALUES
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
CHALLENGES
OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL
FARMING
PERMACULTURE
DESIGN OF EAL
How does the FEAL project work?
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Working packages (WPs)
Implementation: WP 1 WP2 WP3 WP4
intellectual
outputs
Transversal (WPsT):
- project management, monitoring, evaluation/
auditing, dissemination and exploitation
IO1 IO2 IO3 IO4
Done Done In Progess
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
Started
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
SUMMARY REPORT: FEAL STATE OF THE ART
1
O1/A5: National Report
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
SUMMARY REPORT: FEAL STATE OF THE ART
The role of small-sized farms in the maintenance of EAL values.
Farm
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
The role of small-sized farms in the maintenance of EAL values.
A farm is/can be a hotspot for tourists.
Intellectual output
SUMMARY REPORT: FEAL STATE OF THE ART
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
CASE STUDIES
O2/A6 Case Studies - example from Germany
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
CASE STUDIES
O3/A1:
E-Atlas
Design
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
FEAL COMPLEMENTARY TO OER
O3/A1:
E-Atlas Design
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
FEAL COMPLEMENTARY TO OER
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
FEAL COMPLEMENTARY TO OER
Kruse, A., Centeri, C., Renes, H., Roth, M.,
Printsmann, A., Palang, H., Jordá, L.B.
Velarde, M.D., Kruckenberg, H. (2010).
Glossary on Agricultural Landscapes.
Tájökológiai Lapok Special Issue: 99127.
EUCALAND Glossary
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
and which are available by WMS connector or which provide maps with occurrence of questioned landscape
Intellectual output
FEAL COMPLEMENTARY TO OER
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
Intellectual output
FEAL COMPLEMENTARY TO OER
Slovakia Germany Spain Italy Slovenia
Interactive pdf
National context of EALs in case studies
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
DISSEMINATION AT EUROPEAN LEVEL
https://www.researchgate.net/pro
ject/FEAL-multifunctional-Farming-
for-the-sustainability-of-European-
Agricultural-Landscapes
DISSEMINATION AT EUROPEAN LEVEL
https://www.facebook.com/FEAL-1901181810116319/
https://twitter.com/FEAL_ERASMUS
DISSEMINATION AT EUROPEAN LEVEL
FEAL NEWSLETTER, FLYER ETC
multifunctional Farming for the sustainability
of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
COAG Jaén - Farmers Research Session COAG Jaén – tweet on case study
DISSEMINATION AT NATIONAL LEVEL
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of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
DISSEMINATION AT NATIONAL LEVEL
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of European Agricultural Landscapes
Project : 2016-1-SK01-KA202-022502
DISSEMINATION AT NATIONAL LEVEL
Thank you for your attention
PECSRL 2018 Conference in Clermont-Ferrand/Mende
6th of September 2018
Dr. Alexandra Kruse, EUCALAND, Germany
secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu
www.eucalandnetwork.eu
Dr. Martina Slámová, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
slamova@tuzvo.sk
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