Multimedia presentation of the project V-3DAS, co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme.

1. Let’s go and
discover
Innovative together what
strategy for it is
training a new
generation of
agricultural
entrepreneurs
A Virtual
Farm for
experiences of
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2. Project co-funded by the
European Commission
Lifelong Learning Programme – ICT
for Learning
6 countries: Italy, France, Spain,
Greece, Hungary, Germany, Austria
And 9 partners:
EJA, Charamel, Vicomtech, Integrupo,
Cooperativas Agroalimentarias,
Auxilium, Agro-Know Technologies,
CFPPA
coordinated by
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3. The agriculture
Farmers need to needs an
become entrepreneurial
entrepreneurs and approach,
farms should it has to become a
become business ......
multifunctional
enterprises.
For achieving
all of this,
farmers need to
have an
entrepreneurial
and managerial
mindset and
V-3DAS – professional
abilities and
Why? competences.
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4. How to achieve this, in order to support the formation of a new generation of
farmers?
Adequat
e
strategies
and tools …. to support
are the
required. acquirement of
entrepreneurial
.....
mindset,
abilities and
competences
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5. The approach
Design of
Construction of Development of
Referential and
virtual learning V-Farm
Curriculum
environments &
V-Stage
New Professional Profile
Pilot
Courses
Model
Farm
Operational
Tool box
Interviews - Classroom;
- E-learning;
on the - V-learning;
field - Professional
practice.
Future Skills
Needs
Methodologies and tools for pursuing objectives with quality, effectiveness
and efficiency. Different approaches followed have supported the different
stages of the project, realising products, surveys, analysis and testing.
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6. Who is our agricultural entrepreneur?
The agricultural entrepreneur of the future
should be able to face the new professional
scenarios in consequence of the new market
trends and the change in the CAP politics.
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7. Who is our agricultural entrepreneur?
Strongly equipped with managerial technical knowledge
Deeply aware of the real contextual conditions which may have a strong
impact on enterprise setting up and development
Deeply aware of the CAP objectives in a long term perspective
Equipped with up to date knowledge regarding enterprise management,
market trends; quality of process and product; processing and
commercialization of the products; environmental management, rural
development, sustainability, traceability.
Supported by the specific abilities and skills (enterprise management,
planning, use of ICT)
Transversal competences (problem solving, team working, communicating,
initiative spirit, decision making, risk/stress management)
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8. V-3DAS Agricultural
Entrepreneur is, first
of all, an
entrepreneur with
managerial
competences.
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9. Technological
devices as
educational
and training
tools facilitate
the
development
of advanced
abilities and
competences
in the use of
ICT …
The role of ICT
…considered a strategic educational and training
objective for future agricultural entrepreneur.
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10. The role of ICT
Professional training and
development in agriculture at an
advanced level require to
integrate advanced sectoral
knowledge and apprenticeship
within a professional context
representing a best practice for
one ore more areas of enterprise
development.
Web 2.0 devices support
interactive learning experiences
which simulate real professional
practice situations.
Learners have the possibility to
face a set of real complex
professional practice situations
in a context of apprenticeship.
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11. What we propose?
A strategic intervention for supporting the:
-updating of the repertory of professional
competences available in EU;
-development and formalisation of new
LLL methodologies and approaches, in
order to promote the acquisition and
improvement of technical-professional
competences and of transversal skills
characterising the entrepreneurial profile;
-exploration and exploitation of the
potentialities offered by the interactive
virtual worlds for the construction of
pathways of guided apprenticeship in
entrepreneurial roles;
- development of an articulated educational
and training pathway properly designed for
the acquisition of managerial competences
and entrepreneurial skills supported by
innovative learning environments and
materials making use of the most advanced
and innovative Web 2.0 technologies and
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12. Virtual learning
and
Entrepreneurship
training
The project has
reconstructed a
farm in virtual
environment and
the scenarios of
enterprise
management to be
used as setting for
an internship,
sustaining virtual
and experiential
learning.
Two innovative learning activities are put on scene:
- Interaction with challenging problems of professional practice, through interactive
video-machinimas.
- Simulations of activities and tasks of enterprise management and development in
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13. Reproduction of the entire estate of Model Farm, the surrounding environment and
characters.
A 3D environment, with a set of tools for business and cooperation, in a framework
of computer-supported collaborative learning which allows a synchronous interaction
among the users connected from different places and through their own Avatars.
Virtual
Farm
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14. V-3DAS – Video-Machinimas
3D Videos
shot within V-
Farm having as
main
characters the
avatars who
represent the
management
team
Farm management is
dealt with in a
narrative way,
through a sequence
of episodes, showing
Learners are stimulated to
more and more
interact with the story: they are
complex problems of
required to choose the most
professional practice
effective solution of the
and possible
problem shown, determining
solutions
the progress or the regression of
the enterprise
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15. Simulations in V-Farm
The learners become entrepreneurs of V-Farm
They experience situations of Farm Management and are asked to
act as entrepreneurs/managers without any parachute
They are free to analyse data and information
strewed in the V- Farm
Like real entrepreneurs, they have to face and solve a
problem, by strengthening their capacities of critical and
creative thinking and problem solving
They learn to act as entrepreneurs within a concrete
challenging situation
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16. The pedagogical Tool-Box
Tool Box is a
collection of
pedagogical and
operational
guidelines for
supporting
trainers and
teachers
VET operators will have a set of tools for supporting the
implementation and delivery of training interventions
addressed to agricultural entrepreneurs
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17. For more information
Willing to know more about V-3DAS?
Willing to know how to get the Pedagogical and Operational Tool Box?
Visit www.v3das.com or send an email to serifosrl@serifo.it
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