The objective of this bilateral cooperation project was to upgrade the educational standards and curricula at Agricultural Colleges in order to match better the high demand of Ukrainian agricultural enterprises of skilled young professionals.
ADT (lead company) together with two technical consortium partners – the Institute of Applied Agricultural Research of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University (HfWU) and the Company for Project and Process Management in Agriculture (PPMA) werw implementing the project since 08/2017 which was funded by the bilateral cooperation program of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). The project implementation is mandated for the period of four years.

Political partners in the beneficiary country were the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

Key operational partners of the project were the National Scientific-Methodological Center for Agriculture Education in Kiev (former AGROOSVITA) – which is the subordinate National Authority for Agriculture Education of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science – and four selected Agricultural Colleges in different regions of Ukraine (Glukhiv Sumy region, Lipkovativka Charkiw region, Illintsi Vinnytsa region and Myrohoschanskyi Rivne region). In particular, they were assisted to improve educational standards and curricula, to introduce more practice-oriented elements into the education as well as with the supply of technical equipment.

The scope of the project included in particular the five professional specializations agronomy (incl. horticulture), agricultural machinery, animal production, veterinary medicine and electrical engineering.

College lecturers were regular trained in various topics related to animal production, veterinary, farm mechanization, agronomy and electrical engineering as well as a series of workshops on various topics to improve Technical Education and Vocational Training (TEVT) conducted. In particular, the provision of skills on modern farming practices was an important part of the training program.

For more details see: www.agrarausbildung-ukraine.net