e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

A bibliometric study

The e-ROSA project seeks to build a shared vision of a future sustainable e-infrastructure for research and education in agriculture in order to promote Open Science in this field and as such contribute to addressing related societal challenges. In order to achieve this goal, e-ROSA’s first objective is to bring together the relevant scientific communities and stakeholders and engage them in the process of coelaboration of an ambitious, practical roadmap that provides the basis for the design and implementation of such an e-infrastructure in the years to come.

This website highlights the results of a bibliometric analysis conducted at a global scale in order to identify key scientists and associated research performing organisations (e.g. public research institutes, universities, Research & Development departments of private companies) that work in the field of agricultural data sources and services. If you have any comment or feedback on the bibliometric study, please use the online form.

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CERORGANIC: IMPLEMENTATION OF A BLENDED-LEARNING TRAINING CONCEPT FOR OA-ADVISERS AND OA-FARMERS

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In 2004 the European Commission launched the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming(1) in order to stress the need for actions supporting the training and education in the field of Organic Agriculture (OA). Consequently many European countries have recently increased their efforts to establish national or regional OA-training activities. The overall aim of the European LLP-Project CerOrganic (Quality-Certified Training of Farmers on Organic Agriculture)(2) is to develop and test a quality assurance procedure for the vocational education/training of agricultural advisers, based on the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQARF)(3). The second major objective of CerOrganic is to develop an international training curriculum for OA-advisers, following an innovative blended-learning design, which enables the development of collaborative training strategies. The challenge of the CerOrganic Project was to find a viable way of bundling different OA-training schemes and standards. For this purpose, the five implementing pilot countries (Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, and Hungary) started the project with a research of OA training courses and competencies of OA advisers in their countries. Austria is one of the pioneers in Organic Agriculture and provides a high standard and quality of OA-formation and vocational training. During the stakeholder meetings it became obvious that CerOrganic provides the perfect opportunity to enrich well established OA-trainings with competencies in blended-learning and collaborative learning platforms. This paper outlines the two level validation scheme, the blended-learning tools and pedagogical strategies, and the localisation of the quality assurance procedure in Austria. Finally it gives an outlook to further development capacities in Europe.

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2012
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      Data keywords
      • e learning
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      Agriculture keywords
      • agriculture
      • farming
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      Data topic
      • knowledge transfer
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      INTED2012: INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
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