project - Research and innovation
NARA: TraiNing on Agriculture and posthaRvest fruit and vegetables through sustainable best prActices
NARA: TraiNing on Agriculture and posthaRvest fruit and vegetables through sustainable best prActices
Objectives
The main objective of the NARA project has been to contribute to the improvement of the professionalization of young farmers in Europe, especially those of horticultural sector. To this end, the project partners have worked for 2 years on the development of an online training platform that offers free training and in five languages in six cross-cutting areas of high interest to the target audience: food security; Post-harvest technologies; Logistics and marketing; Soil, water and by-products; Packaging, and entrepreneurship. The project has been funded by the ERASMUS Program.
Objectives
The main objective of the NARA project has been to contribute to the improvement of the professionalization of young farmers in Europe, especially those of the horticultural sector. To this end, the project partners have worked for 2 years on the development of an online training platform that offers free training and in five languages in six cross-cutting areas of high interest to the target audience: food security; Post-harvest technologies; Logistics and marketing; Soil, water and by-products; Packaging, and entrepreneurship. The project has been funded by the ERASMUS Program.
Activities
In the framework of the project project, different activities have been carried out that have contributed to the development of the main result of the project: the design and construction of an online platform that offers open and free training for the horticultural sector.
The training platform is available through the link: http://training.naraproject.eu/login/index.php
Activities
In the framework of the project project, different activities have been carried out that have contributed to the development of the main result of the project: the design and construction of an online platform that offers open and free training for the horticultural sector.
The training platform is available through the link: http://training.naraproject.eu/login/index.php
Additional information
If you want to have further information about the proyect, please visit:. http://www.naraproject.eu/en/
You also have a direct access to the offered training in this link: http://training.naraproject.eu/login/index.php
Project details
- Main funding source
- Other EU research and development funds
- Project acronym
- NARA
- Agricultural sectors
- Vegetables
Project keyword
- Aquaculture
- Arable crops
- Organic farming
- Agro-ecology
- Crop rotation/crop diversification/dual-purpose or mixed cropping
- Competitiveness/new business models
- Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
- Fodder and feed
- Greenhouse crops
- Supply chain, marketing and consumption
- AKIS, incl. advice, training, on-farm demo, interactive innovation projects
- Soil
- Circular economy, incl. waste, by-products and residues
- Digitalisation, incl. data and data technologies
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Fundación Parque Científico Tecnológico Aula Dei
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A) – University of Catania
Project partner
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Marketmentoro
Project partner
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Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Project partner
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Tecnopackaging
Project partner