DEMETRAE GenDer GuidancE to enhance and support woMEn choices in the AgriculTuRAl fiEld: pathways and tools for Education and Vocational systems Leonardo da Vinci Project – Transfer of Innovation AGREEMENT n° LLP-LdV-TOI-11-IT-742 CUP code :G32F

Project Duration From 1st October 2011 to 30th September 2013 to 30th September 2013

Partners of the DEMETRAE project Applicant/Lead Partner: IIS “A. Serpieri” Bologna (Institution of Secondary Education) ITALY Management-Co-ordinator Partner CONFAO – Roma CONFAO – Consorzio Nazionale per la Formazione, l'Aggiornamento e l'Orientamento – Roma (National Consortium for Education, Vocational training, Up-grading and Vocational Guidance) CORA Roma - Centri Retravailler Associati Collegio Periti Agrari e Periti Agrari Laureati di Bologna FECOAM - Federación de Cooperativas Agrarias de Murcia Spain EABWSMEsMB - Employers’ Association of the Business Women of Small and Medium Enterprises of the Municipality of Bucharest Romania DDRP - Dobele District Rural Partnership Latvia SEED - Small Enterprise Economic Development Foundation Hungary

DEMETRAE stems from the Project “A.G.R.O.N.O.M.A. - Analisi Generale Risorse Orientamento Nazionale Obiettivo Management Agricolo” (General Analysis of the National Vocational Guidance Resources of the Agricultural Management Objecitive) funded by National Law 10 April 1991 n. 124 – “Positive Actions for the Fulfilment of Men- Women Equality in the Labour Market”. AGRONOMA has started in 2006 promoted by CONFEDERDIA - DEMETRAE stems from the Project “A.G.R.O.N.O.M.A. - Analisi Generale Risorse Orientamento Nazionale Obiettivo Management Agricolo” (General Analysis of the National Vocational Guidance Resources of the Agricultural Management Objecitive) funded by National Law 10 April 1991 n. 124 – “Positive Actions for the Fulfilment of Men- Women Equality in the Labour Market”. AGRONOMA has started in 2006 promoted by CONFEDERDIA - CONFEDERAZIONE ITALIANA DEI DIRIGENTI, QUADRI E IMPIEGATI DELL’AGRICOLTURA (ITALIAN CONFEDERATION OF MANAGERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR) CD-ROM containing vocational guidance operational tools with a gender sensitive approach and vademecum/hanbook for both teachers and boys/girls Good Practice :

The project…what are we going to achieve? The DEMETRAE project aims to achieve primarily a GEOGRAPHIC transfer of innovation. Specifically, it intends to transfer the GOOD PRACTICE   In Italy on the whole national territory (this will be possible thanks to the network of schools associated in the consortium CONFAO)   At transnational level, in the partner countries: Spain, Romania, Latvia and Hungary TRANSFER OF CONTENTS TRANSFER OF CONTENTS: a) a) broadening and reviewing training tools in order to make the materials more appropriate to the needs of male/female teachers / guidance counselors involved in education and vocational training systems, and, following a “cascade effect”, more appropriate to the needs of boys/girls final beneficiaries of the training b) b) developing the contents related to the construction of the network, meant as a place for meeting and exchanging experiences and joint projects in the local area/territory and as a place for dialoguing between the involved systems: school, vocational training and labour market; METHODOLOGICAL TRANSFER METHODOLOGICAL TRANSFER : introducing tools and methodologies to support a network collaborative learning and for the creation of virtual places where to find information necessary to the "first" vocational guidance of people LANGUAGE TRANSFER LANGUAGE TRANSFER : thanks to the production of project results and products in the different partnership languages TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER : by providing a website, within which virtual collaborative learning places will be realized by implementing guided, coordinated and collective communication devices for a better exchange between users who benefited of the training experiences

Project Objectives   Overcoming barriers, for girls, in agricultural Vocational Education and Training, and, in general, in studies and training related to the agricultural sector   Overcoming the horizontal segregation of women in the agricultural labour market   Overcoming women’s underrepresentation in decision-making bodies and in top-responsibility positions in the agricultural sector

Targets  DIRECT TARGETS: VET teachers, trainers and vocational guidance operators  INDIRECT TARGETS: students and individuals who are entering or re-entering the labour market (former school- graduates with qualifying examination for the access to the profession)

Work Packages  Context analysis and Target group needs analysis  Analysis of the selected Best Practice  Product adaptation and implementation  Transfer of Innovation  Integration into VET Systems  Valorisation and Dissemination

Final Products/Outcomes   CD-ROM containing support documents and operational tools in order to implement gender- sensitive vocational guidance practices in the agro- environmental field (re-adapted best practice)   Teams of trained teachers/vocational guidance operators, who work in VET systems in the agricultural field, using a gender-sensitive approach. Group of male and female students who have experienced the experimentation   Virtual exchange places for teachers and male/female students   Advisory help-desk for teachers/vocational guidance operators   Best Practice integrated into the education and training programs of the schools, as well as of the partnership organizations/institutions and of the schools which are part of the partners networks