Preparetory Visit (Hvanneyri, Iceland)

Foundation of Knowledge intends to tender for the proposal of the „Teacher and staff mobility projects in other educational institutions/education related institutions” of the EEA Financial Mechanism 2009-2014 Scholarship Programme in the beginning of 2015. The objective of the tender: organizing a study visit in order to get acquainted with the agriculture and the agricultural vocational education of Iceland, especially the on-the-job-training. Priorities of the planned mobility project:

• • getting acquainted with the general situation of the agriculture of Iceland;
  • getting acquainted with the vocational education in the secondary schools and in the higher education;
  • getting to know the position of the on-the-job training in the education;
  • visiting the Agricultural University of Iceland and other agricultural vocational school(s);
  • visiting practice areas (training factories, production factories, farms);
  • negotiations with the hosts, making new cooperations, preparation of new projects (Erasmus+).

We emphasize the studying of the following special fields:

• • cattle-, sheep- and goat husbandry;
  • horse breeding, horse racing;
  • outdoor animal husbandry;
  • forage farming;
  • rotational grazing;
  • environmental protection;
  • using geothermal energy in the agriculture;
  • wool processing;
  • rural tourism;
  • using ECVET in the vocational education.

The aim of the preparatory visit:

• • framing the professional program of the 10 days study visit, taking into consideration the above mentioned;
  • negotiations about the programme of the teachers from Iceland in Hungary;
  • meeting with the key people of the planned project;
  • visiting the university, vocational schools, practice areas that are participating in the programme;
  • agreement of the technical details of the planned project (tasks, deadlines, responsible people).

Location: Hvanneyri (Izland) 
Date: 12-16th August, 2014