This project provided an opportunity for those who are looking for a new profession to acquire the basics to carry out and perfect the activity of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF). The training offer fully met the demand requested by young people interested in pursuing new professions in compliance with the evolution of the modern livestock labor market by helping to provide specific skills that traditional schooling does not offer in this subject. The training project, designed in this way, ensured that young received training in line with the needs of the livestock market through training on an eLearning platform with free 24/7 access. The project succeeded in making learners understand the fundamental skills necessary for their profession acting in livestock industry and farms. The training objectives coincided with the training needs of the livestock industry and farms who are looking for specialists in the Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) and to the young that want to enter in this emerging profession. This project reduces the consumption of paper because all applications, lessons and everything can be done online in a clear and accessible way.
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) has spread to various countries since its inception in 2003 and the advent of the 4.0 industry and the Internet of Things (IoT) encouraged to incentivise and develop the PLF. The modern technological approach to animal farming, the ethical and environmental aspects need an emerging profession of specialist with technical knowledge and skills in different farming systems able to assure efficient and modern farm animal management. The great potential of the PLF manager is increasing gradually by the farm industry with the objectives to maintain a good state of health of the livestock, with a good quality of the final product and to guarantee the protection of the environment and the safety the of workers and animals. For these reasons, the introduction of the new technologies is a key tool for the employment of young people with concrete opportunities as emerging modern profession that reflect the importance of the efficency and competitiveness also in the livestock industry and farms. We made surveys to check the quality of the project and services receiving 100% satisfaction on the interest in the project by the tested participants.