The primary objectives were to: -Contribute to EU targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving food safety, and supporting the Farm-to-Fork strategy. -Increase the knowledge and skill levels of VET students, technicians, and farmers by developing educational materials focused on sustainable livestock and food production. -Prepare VET students better for the job market in agricultural vocational high schools. -Ensure the adaptation of enterprises to new conditions by providing a sustainability specialist workforce. -Bring innovation to VET by creating the first online platform, curriculum, and mobile application focused on sustainable animal husbandry in the partner regions.
We applied for the project to address the crucial, complex, and mutually threatening relationship between the livestock sector and climate change. Existing agricultural vocational education (VET) curricula were deficient, lacking comprehensive content on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable animal production. A needs analysis confirmed that sustainable livestock was not a separate course but only a module within existing lessons, and that students and teachers lacked sufficient knowledge about the EU's Farm-to-Fork strategy and the livestock sector’s emission reduction targets. The project addressed the need to train a qualified workforce capable of implementing enterprise-based solutions for sustainability and filling the skill mismatch in the labour market.