SPIRITUALIST project`s partners focused on: introducing the concept of hydroponic agriculture to school educators, raising awareness regarding hydroponic agriculture among teachers, students, parents, teaching the target groups in order to be the transmitters for a new way of plants cultivation, which can be done whatever the season, for ensuring a sustainable food suply and natural resourses. It is well known that lack of knowledge and skilled labor are the biggest obstacles to the development of this cultivation method. Thus, SPIRITUALIST promotes education in the field of hydroponic agriculture, providing better trained graduates and makes education in this field accessible and easy to use. Aware of the crucial role teachers play in shaping the students skills, partners aimed to inform and educate, first of all, the educators, by designing a useful training materials about hydroponic agriculture. The introduction of hydroponic agriculture concept in class and the organization of the electiv course was another main objective of SPIRITUALIST, so that the skills and knowledge acquired by the teachers will be passed to their students. Partners aimed that SPIRITUALIST will impact the whole comunity, not only the schools.
Hydroponic agriculture represented a priority for agricultural high schools, because there was a lack of educational materials in this field and only traditional agriculture is studied in pre-university agricultural education. Through SPIRITUALIST project we have addressed the needs of teachers and students, farmers and all those interested to be informed and educated through a useful training materials. So, we must start by educating students through their teachers, to include the training materials in their class, in order to raise the awareness and pass the knowledge to the students. Partners agreed that the best way to do that was to inspire, educate and encourage the teachers, first, to take action, through a training course in this field. Throuhg SPIRITUALIST we highlighted a significant gap in agricultural education: the underrepresentation of hydroponic agriculture and a crucial issue : the limited focus on hydroponics. This oversight is particularly concerning given the growing interest in the potential of this modern farming method.While traditional farming practices are essential, the emergence of hydroponics as a viable and sustainable method of food production warrants more attention in educational settings.