The Smart Skills project international team has met for the first time to kick off the project in Cracow. The consortium includes our Irish partners Momentum Marketing Services, the European E-Learning Institute from Denmark, the Association ARID from Poland, New Edu from Slovakia, GAL Meridaunia from Italy and Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague from the Czech Republic. The partners were all hosted in a hybrid way, with CZU attending online, by the project leader IHAR ZD Grodkowice, from Poland with the support of the Cracovian partner ARID.
The project leader is an experimental department in Grodkowice as part of the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute. Their main task is to implement and popularise Polish varieties in production. Part of their activity concerns field experiments that allow for the assessment of the utility features of plants. They provide training courses for farmers, educators, agricultural advisors and students in the field of plant production.
It is therefore a great comfort for all partners to be led and coordinated by such a professional institution, being the expert partner on the project’s topic. IHAR is the responsible partner for the Quality Assurance of all project results, which is more than appropriate given their expertise in sustainable technologies and implementation of cutting-edge methods.
The Smart Skills project proposes to develop a set of good practices in the field of SMART/Agro-tech & innovation approaches in rural farms. All examples of the implementation of sustainable technologies present approaches, which are an inspiration for other farmers and raise awareness of how cutting-edge technologies can optimize and sustain agricultural practices.
The Smart Skills team discussed all the crucial steps of the development of this Good Practice Guide during their meeting in Cracow, where they also discussed the most important topics to be researched in an in-depth and Europe-wide literature review.
All responsible partners presented their vision of the implementation of specific phases of the project as well as various strategies for assuring high-quality results, the most effective dissemination strategies and other plans to make the best out of the Smart Skills project.
The meeting was concluded with a tour of Krakow's medieval city centre and a dinner, which brought all partners closer together as a team.
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