By implementing the 2ForT project, the partners aimed to: • Improve forestry trainers skills in Europe through learner-centric approaches tested and validated for a VET target group. • Enhance all VET training in Europe, as the learner-centric methods and tools developed in the project are transferable to all VET learners. • Raise awareness among a new segment of the European population about sustainable, climate-friendly forestry and forestry work. At mid-term, the main expected impacts were: 1. Higher quality forestry professionals who are more passionate, efficient, and work safely, thanks to impactful training. This would lead to better alignment with forestry sector needs, fewer accidents, and greater recognition of forestry workers due to respect for sustainable forestry and the ability to explain it. 2. Higher quality professionals from VET education, meeting sector demands. 3. Greater understanding of forestry and forestry work across Europe.
The Centre Forestier and project partners applied to address the need to enhance VET trainers' skills and integrate new pedagogical approaches for better results and satisfaction among trainers and learners. This project followed BLEFT (Erasmus+ KA2 2018-2021), where partners applied learner-centred and gamification concepts to blended learning. The project aimed to extend these approaches to face-to-face training to tackle challenges such as: • Lack of motivation of VET learners • Creating a participatory learning environment • Building a true trainer-trainee connection • Adapting to diverse learning styles and difficulties (e.g., DYS, ADHD) • Effectively addressing safety issues • Delivering engaging online training • Introducing digital tools in face-to-face sessions These were tackled in a very concrete way, to answer trainers needs for «recipes» and easy-to-apply good practices. The project also raised awareness about sustainable, climate-friendly forestry among VET learners, a group often overlooked in such initiatives . It also addressed a key problematic of the forestry sector, which is the lack of public understanding of forestry ( social acceptance).