EPAFBL's strategy encompasses, among others, introducing students to the international environment, increasing employment opportunities and their language level and psychosocial skills. For the organization itself, we intend to continue working on its updating and innovation, in a national and European context. The “Learning Without Borders III” project had the following main objectives: _Promote a culture of openness to the world in the educational community _Promote participation in international activities _Instill, in students and the team, values and behaviors that contribute to their personal and professional fulfillment _Create spaces for contact and exchange with other schools/students and companies/professionals _Get to know the agricultural, food, food and wine labor market at European level _Update the team's skills in terms of project management, pedagogical approaches from an international perspective and network cooperation
The Professional Agricultural School Fernando Barros Leal (EPAFBL), created in 1989 in Runa, Torres Vedras, has as its principles quality, flexibility, balance and dynamism. The training offer includes level II, IV and V courses, the latter in partnership with the Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém Internationalization is understood from a global perspective of the world we live in, and this project is a key piece, as it allows for on-site contact with a distinct and multicultural reality. To internationalize the school is to make it more dynamic and up-to-date, challenging and challenged, attentive to the needs of a global market, by keeping an update of practices and contents that promote in students a full and adequate development to the present time. Our strategy includes, among others, introducing students to the international environment, awakening openness and curiosity that will make them more permeable to new learning; continue to feed the team's motivation, creativity and innovation, so that they want and can keep up to date, take innovative initiatives and are aware of the quality of our School and the importance of its contribution to national and European development, in a multicultural and civic perspective.