(relevant information is also provided in the Executive Summary and the various Project Managmenent reports, uploaded to the Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform)CONTEXT - RATIONALEFuture farmers and agriculture professional are confronted with severe challenges, especially under financial stress in EU economies and other factors which call for improved competitiveness, a ‘green’ sustainable development and an increase in the agricultural productivity of EU. Such needs are accounted for in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform 2014-2020, which foresees the strengthening of three long-term objectives: a) viable food production, b) sustainable management of natural resources and c) balanced territorial development, and provides new policy instruments that reward resource-efficient services that protect the landscape/bio-diversity and innovative trends and technologies in farming and rural development. We considered the development of new transversal skills for agricultural practice absolutely critical in order to cope with the emerging challenges. We adopted the distance-learning paradigm, considering all recent innovations and wide-spread use of e-learning and m-learning systems, in order to develop a sustainable, multilingual courseware freely available to farmers, vets and any practitioner in the agricultural field, including groups at risk. Through a close synergy of key stakeholders in the consortium, we have already reached out to a wide audience and enabled their access to continuing vocational education and training.PARTNER PROFILESSKIFF (Skills for Future Farmers) mobilized six (6) field experts and key stakeholders from Greece, Netherlands, Lithuania and Turkey. 1. The Computer Technology Institute - CTI, GR, (project coordinator) is an IT research organization, supervided by the Greek Ministry of Education.2. The European Institute for Evolution and Integration - EIEO, GR, is an non-profit social enterprise specializing in agricultural topics and technologies.3. MKV Consulting Ltd - MKV, TR, is an SME specializing in education and VET training.4. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock - MOFAL, TR, is a govermental body.5. Lithuanian Agricultural Advisory Service - LAAS, LT, is non-profit organization established in 1993 by the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture, Lithuanian Farmers’ Union and the Lithuanian Association of Agricultural Companies, to provide training, scientific expertise, lab infrastructure and consutling to farmers.6. BLANCON SA, NL, is an SME specializing in agricultural areas and VET training.OBJECTIVES - RESULTSThe consortium developed a sustainable, multilingual training program (see http://future-farmer.eu) under the e-learning and m-learning paradigms, covering six (6) important thematic areas that cut-across most of the above requirements: 1. Organic Farming, 2. Rural Development, 3. Agricultural Markets, 4. Farming Management, 5. Biobased Economy, 6. ICT in Agriculture. In addition to the above six course modules initially described in project's application, the partners developed two (2) additonal courses: a) 'ICT in Agriculture - Precision Farming' (the most successful course, according to user attendance statistics and user evaluation score), b) 'Setting up a Farm'.In addition, a multilingual mobile app that provides weather forecast, agricultural news, and more, has been developed. Finally, a free, easily parameterized e-commerce platform has been developed, targeted to those users who wish to advertise their products through the Internet or even built their own e-shop.ACTIVITIESAll participants have been engaging in wide dissemination actions and at least two multiplier events have been organized in each country. Through a pilot training phase, users have been accessing the platform at their own pace, space and time, taking self-assessment quizzes and providing feedback, online. As of 24-4-2018, 837 users have registered for the online courses.IMPACTThe impact of the online training platform was significant in all countries. For the Greek case in particular, the Head of the General Directorate of Plant Protection of Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food, after thoroughly checking the e-learning platform, sent a letter to literally all Ministry’s supervised bodies (at regional and prefectural level), inviting them to disseminate further information on SKIFF to end-users.The number of registred users rises steadily every day.Finally, SKIFF’s consortium managed to have four ECVET agreements signed regarding the e-learning modules developed. The project's intellectual outputs, project management activites, multipler events, training activites and transnational meetings are described in detail in material submitted to the Greek Erasmus+ Agency, some of it also uploaded to the Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform.