The main objectives to be tackled during this project were as quantitative as qualitative. Some of them has been developed during the project, but others have been seeded in the hope that they will grow in the future. Among the concrete objectives developed are: .- To determine the knowledge, capabilities and skills needed, as well as, the existing barriers to facilitate the development of this new profile through the integration of needs from educational level with business and social ones, etc. .- To design and create a new professional profile (curriculum and learning approaches) that will allow professionals from this sector to take part in the opportunities that bio-based labour market offers based on the real-life needed detected. .- To foster the integration of the profile into the current educational structure, supporting the teachers, companies related and policymakers, in the global transition process toward CE in the agri-food sector. Others intangible objectives have been seeded as it has been the awareness creation about the need of go forward in this transition toward the by-product valorisation. To achieve this objective is not an easy way to reach in one single project, but this project has started this process
The development of bio-based sector requires not only technological advances but also the development of new professionals with new skills and competences which can valorise the by-products and waste from the agri-food sector into new, innovative and high added value biocompounds Due to these qualifications and competencies are needed throughout Europe, and during the idea phase of this project, it had not any training curriculum at European level aligned with the opportunities bio-based sector can offer, the design of a common curriculum (based on the European standard ECVET) and a learning approach that will allow professionals from this sector to take part in the opportunities that bio-based labour market offers, as well as, to provide the industry with needed talent to develop new, innovative and high added value bio-based products was considered necessary. Among the needs we have addressed during the project are the following: .- Need to determine the knowledge, capabilities and skills associated with a professional profile with not many references to look at. .- Association the knowledge, capabilities and skills integrated to vocational training stage. .- Integration this new profile into the current educative structure.