EcoJob-AP- Training on European standards for ecological agriculturalproduction

• The main aim of this Handbook is to present the necessary competences for realization of the professional qualification EcoJob-Agricultural production (AP) – EcoJob-AP for EcoFarmer and EcoExpert-AP on European Standards.

• For this purpose, it was necessary to study the needs of knowledge and skills on eco-agricultural production of farmers, managers, specialists, etc. from the agrarian sector of the partners’ countries working on the current project: Bulgaria (BG), Denmark (DK), Greece (GR), Italy (IT), the Netherlands (NL), Slovakia (SK), the United Kingdom (UK).

• Comparing the national qualification frameworks, the partners consider that it is necessary the Handbook to include information about the European Qualification Framework (EQF). The partners approved and accepted to develop the necessary competences at Level 3 for EcoFarmer and Level 5 for EcoExpert-AP.

• The Handbook consists of Transnational Qualification Framework (TQF) of EcoJob-AP and training modules, by means of which the final project objective is achieved:

• Acquiring professional competences of EcoJob-AP through training on European standards

• The on-line training course (Internet based) contributes in addition to realize transparency of the transfer of professional qualification of the presented EcoJob AP. The whole text content of the modules is presented on the website.