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Background
In BA and ME agriculture remains dependent on manual farming, with technical/technological solutions being poorly explored. Both countries have strong ICT sectors employing sizeable number of highly educated professionals who develop front-end software solutions. Building a sustainable regional future for the large extent hence depends on the intersection of the 2 which has in so far not been given a fair attention in educational and training practices.
Objectives
Overall project aims of VIRAL to support university and business collaboration (UBC) through accelerating the use of ICT across Western Balkans agro-communities. The concept is led by relevant regional AET facilities and based on enabling the use of different ICT solutions/techniques/tools in the classroom and outside of it in order to obtain desired integration of agriculture and it engineering which in effect reinforces UBC across regional agro-communities.
Implementation
Implementation was hampered by COVID-19 pandemic, but 9 month non-cost extension enabled project consortium to achieve all envisaged objectives and results. Project activities were implemented to a very high extent in line with the work plan. The total of 39 activities distributed to 8 work packages were encompassed by project implementation. Project implementation was effective, all project indicators were met and many indicators were exceeded.
Results
Purchase and installation of hard infrastructure/equipment; Organized EXPO events; Web portal; Created university ToT teams; Student pitching competitions-hackathons organized; Comparative analysis report; Needs analysis report; Practical Guide for the use of ICT in AET; Crash courses on ICT in agriculture; Video compendium; Improved competences of farmers, extension services, agro-cooperatives and SMEs, entrepreneurs, agronomists and students;
Source: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/609755-EPP-1-2019-1-BA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP