1. Co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme

2. http://www.organic-edunet.eu contents  overview  content  technology  scenarios  project partners  connect to

3. overview

4. http://www.organic-edunet.eu Organic.Edunet  builds a multilingual federation of learning repositories  content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecology  for the awareness & education of European Youth

5. http://www.organic-edunet.eu about  Targeted Project  funded by the eContentplus Programme  started on October 2007  duration 36 months  co-funded by EC  Overall budget: 4.800.000 euros

6. http://www.organic-edunet.eu rationale (1/2)  irreversible damage done to the environment by current agricultural practices  soil and water pollution  depletion of natural resources  destruction of delicate ecosystems

7. http://www.organic-edunet.eu rationale (2/2)  Organic Agriculture (OA) & Agroecology (AE) as alternative approaches  safer agricultural & food products  environmentally sound production “…need for actions supporting the training and education of all stakeholders related to OA…” EU Action Plan for Organic Food & Farming, 2004

8. http://www.organic-edunet.eu need  systematic collection and categorisation of learning resources related to OA and AE  integrating online environment  increase use and reuse  study & assessment of usage scenarios  in the context of formal educational programs in Europe

9. http://www.organic-edunet.eu objectives (1/5)  support stakeholders producing content about OA & AE  describe according to multilingual, standard-complying metadata  publish in online federation of learning repositories

10. http://www.organic-edunet.eu objectives (2/5)  deploy a multilingual online environment on top of the online federation of repositories  to facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, access and use of learning resources the Organic.Edunet Web portal

11. http://www.organic-edunet.eu objectives (3/5)  study educational scenarios to support the teaching of OA & AE relevant topics  use Organic.Edunet Web portal to find learning resources in the repositories  targeted user organisations  high-schools  agricultural universities

12. http://www.organic-edunet.eu objectives (4/5)  involve various European schools & universities to evaluate project results  focused pilot trials within Organic.Edunet partner institutions  open validation events within Organic.Edunet affiliated institutions

13. http://www.organic-edunet.eu objectives (5/5)  create organisational structures to support the sustainability of project results  reinforce the cooperation of stakeholders in the OA & AE content area

14. http://www.organic-edunet.eu targeted users  tomorrow’s consumers: highschool children  to be familiarized with concepts & benefits of OA & AE  tomorrow’s professionals: students of agricultural universities  to be educated about methods and practices of OA & AE

15. content

16. http://www.organic-edunet.eu content stakeholders  EU-funded initiatives  public or private not-for-profit organisations  agricultural publishing houses  agricultural universities & institutes  rural schools & teachers

17. http://www.organic-edunet.eu teaching & learning resources  consortium-provided content resources  BIO@GRO, ECOLOGICA, COMPASS projects  selection from Intute repository resources  teaching resources from agricultural universities  other tutor-provided resources  publicly-available resources  selection from resources available online by not-for-profit organisations (e.g. FAO)

18. http://www.organic-edunet.eu BIO@GRO resources  type  lectures, best practice guides, games, etc.  topic area  OA methods & practices  partner  USAMVB, AUA  quantity  400

19. http://www.organic-edunet.eu Intute resources  type  documents, lectures, etc.  topic area  agriculture, forestry  partner  Intute  quantity  4,450

20. http://www.organic-edunet.eu ECOLOGICA & COMPASS resources  type  lectures, notes, etc.  topic area  OA  partner  BCE, MOGERT  quantity  1,300

21. http://www.organic-edunet.eu university tutors’ resources  type  lectures, notes, exercises, etc.  topic area  OA & AE  partner  UMB, EULS  quantity  130

22. http://www.organic-edunet.eu school teachers’ resources  type  worksheets, lesson plans, etc.  topic area  life sciences  partner  Miksike, EA  quantity  300

23. http://www.organic-edunet.eu public resources  type  lectures, papers, exercises, etc.  topic area  OA & AE  partner  AUA, UAH  quantity  1,800

24. technology

25. http://www.organic-edunet.eu metadata & ontologies  adoption of metadata standards & specifications  IEEE LOM application profile  use of ontologies to facilitate search & retrieval  reasoning about queries  enriching search results

26. http://www.organic-edunet.eu architecture  overall architecture  repository management module  learning content exchange module  semantic services module  web portal module

27. http://www.organic-edunet.eu overall architecture

28. http://www.organic-edunet.eu repository management module

29. http://www.organic-edunet.eu learning resources exchange module

30. http://www.organic-edunet.eu semantic services module

31. http://www.organic-edunet.eu web portal module

32. http://www.organic-edunet.eu Confolio Repository Suite of Tools

33. http://www.organic-edunet.eu Learning resources are annotated and uploaded into the Confolio Repository Suite of Tools Then, they are harvested by the Organic.Edunet Web Federation Portal and are made available in http://portal.organic-edunet.eu http://portal.organic-edunet.eu

34. Annotation in Confolio… Metadata for the resourceMetadata for the resource –Title –Keywords –Description –etc http://www.organic-edunet.eu How to make a successful workshop

35. http://www.organic-edunet.eu Web Federation Portal

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38. scenarios

39. http://www.organic-edunet.eu university scenario (1/2)  a professor of animal production in an urban agricultural university of Norway prepares a lecture on organic poultry farming  wants to show a real example of an operating farm  wants to talk about benefits & shortcomings  a number of students’ diploma theses in a Romanian rural university has produced a variety of digital material  interviews of farmers, videos of a real organic farm  how to link those two ?

40. http://www.organic-edunet.eu university scenario (2/2)  students in the rural university  upload their videos in Organic.Edunet  the professor in the rural university  uploads article on long-term economic benefits from organic poultry farming  the professor in the urban university  searches Organic.Edunet  finds the descriptions of the above resources  downloads, uses in his lecture

41. http://www.organic-edunet.eu school scenario (1/2)  a highschool teacher in a Greek island is teaching environmental education  wants to raise awareness of his students about the damage being done to the environment  wants to use a variety of examples from their region  wants to share these examples with teachers in other schools of Greek islands  how to prepare, store and share digital teaching resources?

42. http://www.organic-edunet.eu school scenario (2/2)  a collaborative outdoor activity is organised  students split in groups, study various effects  e.g. visit to nearby river polluted by an olive processing - oil production facility  students take pictures, write a small report on their findings, make a class presentation  results are uploaded to Organic.Edunet  their classmates and teachers/students from other schools may access them online

43. project partners

44. http://www.organic-edunet.eu overall coverage  16 partners from 10 EU countries

45. http://www.organic-edunet.eu roles: content  providers of teaching & learning resources  Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece  Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)  OÜ Miksike, Estonia  University of Nottingham (Intute), UK  Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE), Hungary  Hungarian Association of Ecological Farming (MOGERT)  Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS)  University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (USAMVB), Romania  Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft - BMLFUW (Austria)

46. http://www.organic-edunet.eu roles: technology  state-of-art tools & technologies that are being adapted & specialized  University of Alcala (UAH), Spain  Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden  Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece

47. http://www.organic-edunet.eu roles: educational  educational methods, scenarios design, user trials  Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), Greece  Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)  OÜ Miksike, Estonia  Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), Austria  Corvinus University Budapest (BCE), Hungary  Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS)  Bundesgymnasium Schwechat (BGS), Austria  University of Agronomic Sciences and Vet.Med. Bucharest (USAMVB-FA), Romania

48. http://www.organic-edunet.eu roles: quality  evaluation, validation, quality assurance  University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany  Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), Austria

49. http://www.organic-edunet.eu connect to  need more information?  want to get affiliated with Organic.Edunet?  visit  http://www.organic-edunet.eu  Email  palavitsinis@grnet.gr  nikosm@grnet.gr