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Go Green & Care

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2014-1-FI01-KA202-000826
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 150,149 EUR

Go Green & Care

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This project is a multidisciplinary project with six organisation from six different countries around the Europe representing different fields of education. Agriculture, animal husbendry, horticulture, environment and forestry, business, tourism and hotel management and social- and health care. Project objective is to build the competencies of VET organizations for providing Green Care education cross sectoral. Each organisation has a great expertise in their own specialized fields of education. On top of that they have great merits from the past international projects and curriculum development work.Experiences and research have shown that the use of Green Care activities can produce health, social or educational benefits for a variety of client groups. There is a growing movement towards green care in many contexts, ranging from therapeutic applications of green exercise activities, social and therapeutic horticulture, animal assisted therapies, wilderness therapy, ecotherapy and care farming. Green Care can also provide new livelihood opportunities for farms and other rural enterprises, and also contributes to rural viability and the quality of the rural environment. There is a great demand to educated labor with knowledge of this ideology to work in the businesses providing Green Care in its different forms as a part of their rehabilitation services for disabled, elderly or socially excluded people. Provided Green Care education will help to solve this problem arisen from the working life sources. Project organized transnational project meetings and workshops disseminating its actions and results via EfVET communication channels to make information available for all. Activities arranged participating teachers and managers from the organisations and entrepreneurs and representatives from different associations related to subject. As a result the project created http://gogreencare.eu/ -webpage for the Teacher’s Guidebook for Green Care-education in upper vocational education to provide Green Care educated labor for answering working life’s demands and future needs. From Teachers Guidebook you find Green Care teacher’s material and tips how to use GC-method on your teaching.The teaching and learning material is divided in to five different approaches related to green care activities:1. Animal assisted approach (Finland) 2. Horticultural approach (United Kingdom)3. Forestry - Nature approach (Estonia) 4. Nursing and health care approach (Finland) 5. Wellness and Hospitality approach (Cyprus) You find also stories about how to use Green Care in different context (Best practices) and lots of Additional material for find out more and learn Green Care methods. All material is free to use and easily load up. The results in the long term will increase the professional skills of the teachers and staff of participating organisations and produce higher quality of education.Coordinator Ylä-Savo Municipal Federation of Education/Ylä-Savo Vocational College, FIPartners1. Savo Consortium of Education/SAKKY/, FI 2. EDEX/Intercollege, CY 3. Bridgwater College/BC, UK 4. Parnumaa Kutsehariduskeskus/PKHK, EE5. European Forum for Technical and Vocational Education and Training- EfVET, NL

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