The main objectives for the participants is to enlarge the horizon, both for students and staff. For students the objectives is to give them a change to learn how agriculture is practiced in our neighboring countries, to learn new best practices, to gain an insight into new culture and society, to become more competent in a foreign language and to strengthen them as participants in a democratic society. The main objectives for teachers and staff is to learn how agriculture in a changing world is addressed in other agricultural schools, to learn best practices in environmental issues and sustainable use of land and to discuss subject matters with colleagues and reflect on their own subjects and teaching at home, since AUI is the only agricultural school in Iceland it is vital for AUI's staff to meet with colleagues in other countries. For each year of the project we planned to send 6 students to go on mobility and take two week long period on a farm either in Norway or Denmark through the vocational partners of the project. Two teachers should follow the student groups abroad at the beginning of the training period. Coordinators at hosting schools will monitor the training period on behalf of the project.
In the AXIS project participate both students and staff from the Vocational Programme in Agriculture at the Agricultural University of Iceland. Students in the first of their two year vocational programme in agriculture are obliged to take three months traineeships (12 weeks) period at a farm. Through this project the students can apply to take around 2 weeks of their training period at a Scandinavian farm (Norway/Denmark). Teachers and staff at the Vocational Programme in Agriculture can either participate in monitoring of the student traineeships abroad. Participants will evaluate their experience of the mobility and report to colleagues. It is hoped that long term benefits for the students will be that they are better skilled and independent, have a broader view on agriculture, that they can both apply for work in another country after graduation to gain further experience and/or implement their knowledge and experience from abroad into their farming in Iceland in the future. In regard of teachers and staff long term benefit might be better knowledge on agriculture in international context, reflection on new experience and implementation of new ideas into own teaching at AUI.