"Smallholder agriculture still dominates the European rural economy, with 86% of EU farms holding an area below 20ha (CEMA, November 2017). Advanced agricultural machinery solutions can help farm holdings, regardless of their size, to operate in a profitable, competitive and sustainable manner. In particular, Precision Agriculture (PA) technologies holds great potential for farmers as a new frontier based on use of innovative technologies, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and aiming at a rational adoption of decisions and planned agricultural works well balanced between competitiveness and sustainability. This concept has been simply explained as a way to ”apply the right treatment in the right place at the right time”. The project aims to develop awareness and competences of farmers, students and other target groups involved in the Agricultural Knowledge Innovation System (AKIS) towards an advanced digital knowledge focused on smart farming oriented to a Vocational and Education Training (VET) framework fostering sustainable development in rural areas, strengthening professional handling of digital data and implements of sprayers for sustainable farming and delivering added value to occupability of youth in rural areas, The project aims also at creating a complete e-learning system based on digital farming linked to use and planning of spraying machinery targeted to farmers, agricultural knowledge advisory services, higher education and agricultural vocational schools, agricultural machinery manufacturers, professonals of the vocational education and training (VET), policy and decision makers and experts of the agricultural sector. The teaching materials, in form of Modules, will be adapted to a web platform system for self-learning with specific attention to i) safety of operators, ii) environmental protection from diffusion of toxic and polluting products, and iii) food safety. Plant protection from adversities due to crittogames, pathogens and harmful insects is absolutely necessary for securing an effective and stable productivity in agriculture. However, because of spraying pesticides, it can produce pollution endangering human health, environment and food safety, Furthermore plant protection machines, called sprayers, are very special if compared to other agricultural machinery, since its quality and application techniques level greatly affect safety and hygiene of food products.The main output of the project will be a training course for combined, on the spot, long distance and online interactive learning, based on a general and detailed knowledge of digital data and tools linked to spraying machinery..The main target users are: a) farmers and sprayers operators; b) students of higher education and agricultural vocational and technical schools; c) agronomists, trainers and persons in charge of the prevention and protection service at work; d) technicians and manufacturers of sprayer machineries.The Intellectual Output (IO) 1 will be the Module 1, entitled ""Digital farming and sprayers"", based on introduction and all available data and tools linked to use and planning on field spraying good practices depending of kinds of crops, land suitability, weather forecast data, treatment calendar and information to be used (EQF Level 3). All kinds of digital data available and suitable to provide farmers with full information will be simply explained making easy to improve competences and decision making skills on advanced technologies available and planning of actions from purchase or leasing to treatments. The IO2 will be the Module 2 entitled ""Proper combination of technologies and digital information for sprayers on selected crops"", based on a selection of crops. At least 4 crops will be choosen as case studies for digitallization of spraying technologies from the national Training Needs Analysis and State-of-the-Art on digital farming for spraying machinery relevant to selected cultivations (EQF Level 4). The machines will be adequately explained, by support of brief descriptions and a wide use of pictures, animations and video-clips, within training modules sequenced according to increasing levels based on the European Qualifications Framework,The IO3 will be the Module 3 entitled ""Digital data for farmers and certification system for sustainable farming"", focused on i) user friendly transfer of digital farming knowledge, competences and skills to farmers (Part I, EQF Level 5) and ii) certification system of digital farming linked to spraying machineries for reduction of environmental pollution, chemical residuals, emissions of Greenhouse gases, etc. implemented with last generation traceability systems (i.e. Distributed Ledger Technology, DLT) attributing a rating based on sustainability indicators (Part II, EQF Level 6). The IO4 will be the ""IMPLEMENT 4.0 Web Training Platform"" collecting all Modules and constituting the online course for Precision Agriculture."