Preparatory Visit (Klepp Stasjon, Norway

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 Norway, especially the on-the-job-training. Priorities of the planned mobility project:

• • getting acquainted with the general situation of the agriculture of Norway;
  • 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 Norwegian University College of Agriculture and Rural Development 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:

• • cultivation;
  • animal husbandry (cattle, sheep and goat);
  • outdoor animal husbandry;
  • preservation of the agricultural tradition;
  • adaption to the climate change;
  • mechanization of the agriculture;
  • environmental protection;
  • 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 Norway 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: Klepp Stasjon (Norway)
Date: 7-11th August, 2014