<< Objectives >>Precision Agriculture (PA), a farming management concept based upon observing, measuring and responding to variability of conditions in crops, or to manage some aspects of animal rearing, is a new frontier based on use of innovative communication system technologies. The EASY4DIGIT project will offer advanced training solutions to the main categories concerned, farmers, students of vocational agricultural school and universities, advisory services, professionals, manufacturers and policy makers.<< Implementation >>An e-Learning course will be set up on use of digital technologies in agriculture for • optimizing the agronomic decisions • controlling the precision of the applications • recording the work performed • analysing the performances. Within this learning framework the Decision Support Systems will be particularly explained as drivers for Precision Agriculture connecting farming with digital education and technological competences for more sustainable, resilient and competitive rural areas.<< Results >>The project will be developed through 5 WPs: WP1 Management WP2 State-of-Art WP3 Training Course on Use of digital Technologies in Agriculture WP4 Web platform for e-Learning and WP5 Evaluation, Monitoring and Dissemination.The course will be made of 3 Modules: Module 1 Education and Training on Digital Technologies for Farm Decision Support; Module 2 Smart Solutions for Innovative, Sustainable and Safe Agri-food Supply Chains; Module 3 Digital Innovation and Good Practices for Rural Areas.

Soil-borne plant-parasitic nematodes are a biosecurity risk for global food production with an estimated annual loss of €110 billion worldwide. Root-knot nematodes (RKN) and potato cyst nematodes (PCN) rank 1 and 2 in the Top 10 of high-impact plant-parasitic nematodes with RKN alone accounting for ~5% of global crop losses. RKN and PCN are A2 quarantine pests or emerging species listed on the EPPO Alert List. The two PCN species are also included in EU Commission implementing regulation 2021/2285. Recent reports document the emergence of new RKN and PCN problems in tomato and potato cropping across Europe and beyond due to two independent drivers: global warming and genetic selection. For decades, non-specific, environmentally harmful agrochemicals have been applied to manage RKN and PCN. The increasing awareness about their negative impact prompted the phasing out of most nematicides. Consequently, there is an urgent need for novel, durable control strategies that enable adequate responses by stakeholders to prevent crop losses in the EU and beyond. NEM-EMERGE will provide a spectrum of sustainable, science-based solutions for both the conventional and organic farming sector based on the principles of IPM, including (1) optimized crop rotations schemes including cover crops, (2) tailored host plant resistances, and (3) optimal use of the native antagonistic potential of soils. Moreover, monitoring and risk assessment tools will be generated to support Plant Health Authorities in decision and policy making. To ensure the adoption and implementation of NEM-EMERGE tools in the sector, a bottom-up co-creation process and multi-actor approach will be used based on stakeholder demands from both the conventional and organic sector. This makes NEM-EMERGE a key driver for the transition to sustainable farming in line with the Farm to Fork Strategy thereby contributing to the challenging targets set by the Green Deal.

Agricultural production became very importnat due to increase in world population day by day. All over the World, most of the agrcultural products grow in sub-humid, semi-arid and arid environments, which require irrigation water in addition to the precipitation. For conveyance, distribution and field application, high cost irrigation infrastrucres are required and most of the countries try to increase irrigated area by using governmental financial support.By this way, agriculture is the main user of the water resources taken under control. This percentage is nearly 73 in Turkey. Agricultural water use efficiency inclueding conveyance, distribution and field application is main issue World-wide, also in Turkey. Turkish govermental support to improve agricultural water use efficeny is reached to a very important level, but it is still very low, nearly at % 43 level. According to people dealing with irrigation from the technical point of view, improving agricultural water use efficiency could be achived by; modernsation of irrigation systems based on well prepared system projects, operation of irrigation systems by considering soil-plant-atmosphere-water relationships, water availability, climatic factors and socia ecnomic situation and monitoring irrigated agricultural lands by new technological opportunuties for real time site specific management of agricultural water. Accoridng to literatüre, remote sensing techniques including satellite systems and un-manned air vehicle systems, can provide valuable data and information related to agricultural water management issues. From these point of view, this Project were develoed transitionaly for preperation of training materials to fill an important gap in improving agricultural water management.Within the scope of our project, experts with different areas of expertise will come together to create an information-based irrigation systems module, mobile application and distance education platform.Main goals of this Project are preperation of training docements on;• General country surveys about aricultural water managemen,• Planning and operation of irrigation systems,• Principles of remote sensing,• Using satellite and UAV systems for agricultural water management,• Improving agricultural water use efiiciency• Renovation of the curriculum of agricultural vocational high schools

The project rose from the needs to meet the requirements of the modern world via developing and implementing innovative educational practices related to experience-based pedagogical approach educating children aged 3-12. The project outcomes target at strengthening professional profile of already working educators and students - future teachers by developing pedagogical guidelines on experiential education, open educational tools-real life cases, offering training for improvement of professional and communicative skills, improving curricula of pre-school, primary and teacher training institutions.The consortium of project partners consisted of 9 institutions: 3 non-academic universities from Lithuania, the Netherlands, Latvia, 4 academic universities from Turkey, Greece, Portugal and Romania (all institutions provide teacher training for pre-school and primary education), a primary school (providing pre-primary and primary education) from Lithuania and a kindergarten (providing pre-school education) from Lithuania. All partners have associated partners kindergartens and primary schools, they function in big clusters together with other educational institutions, social partners, non-profit or profit organization of informal education.Tangible project results are: 1. Research survey report about experiential education in LT, RO, NL, GR, PT, TR, LV; 2. Handbook of pedagogical guidelines for educators and parents about experiential teaching/learning of children aged 3-12; 3. Case studies for practical usage; 4. Curriculum update. Intangible project results are: 1. Improved professional skills of teachers in pre-school and primary education; 2. Increased cross-cultural awareness and communication abilities; 3. Better language skills.Every project institution functioned in a cluster together with pre-school and/or primary education institutions which are the sites of students practical training. The project results are disseminated among those social partners. To make the results easy accessible intellectual outputs will be translated into national languages.