organic edunet presentation @ helbionet

Co-funded by the European Commission Co-funded by the European Commission eeContentContentplusplus programme programme

Nikos PalavitsinisNikos Palavitsinis

Greek Research & Technology NetworkGreek Research & Technology Network

HelBioNetHelBioNet

May 25-26, CreteMay 25-26, Crete

http://www.organic-edunet.euhttp://www.organic-edunet.eu

Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet

builds a multilingual federation of builds a multilingual federation of learning repositories learning repositories

content about Organic Agriculture content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecologyand Agroecology

for the awareness & education of for the awareness & education of European YouthEuropean Youth


aboutabout

Targeted ProjectTargeted Project funded by the funded by the eeContentContentplusplus

ProgrammeProgramme started on October 2007started on October 2007

duration 36 monthsduration 36 months co-funded by ECco-funded by EC

Overall budget: 4.800.000 eurosOverall budget: 4.800.000 euros


rationale rationale (1/2)(1/2)

irreversible damage done to the irreversible damage done to the environment by current environment by current agricultural practices agricultural practices

soil and water pollutionsoil and water pollution depletion of natural resourcesdepletion of natural resources destruction of delicate ecosystemsdestruction of delicate ecosystems


rationale rationale (2/2)(2/2)

Organic Agriculture (Organic Agriculture (OAOA) & ) & Agroecology (Agroecology (AEAE) as alternative ) as alternative approachesapproaches

safer agricultural & food productssafer agricultural & food products environmentally sound productionenvironmentally sound production

“…“…need for actions supporting the training and need for actions supporting the training and education of education of all stakeholdersall stakeholders related to OA related to OA…”…”

EU Action Plan for Organic Food & Farming, EU Action Plan for Organic Food & Farming, 20042004


needneed systematic collection and categorisation systematic collection and categorisation

of learning resources related to OA and of learning resources related to OA and AEAE

integrating online environment integrating online environment increase use and reuseincrease use and reuse

study & assessment of usage scenarios study & assessment of usage scenarios in the context of formal educational in the context of formal educational

programs in Europeprograms in Europe


objectives objectives (1/5)(1/5)

support stakeholders producing support stakeholders producing content about OA & AEcontent about OA & AE

describe according to multilingual, describe according to multilingual, standard-complying metadata standard-complying metadata

publish in online federation of publish in online federation of learning repositorieslearning repositories



deploy a multilingual online deploy a multilingual online environment on top of the online environment on top of the online federation of repositoriesfederation of repositories

to facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, to facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, access and use of learning resourcesaccess and use of learning resources

the the Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet Web portalWeb portal



study educational scenarios to study educational scenarios to support the teaching of OA & AE support the teaching of OA & AE relevant topicsrelevant topics

use use Organic.Edunet Organic.Edunet Web portal to find Web portal to find learning resources in the repositories learning resources in the repositories

targeted user organisationstargeted user organisations high-schoolshigh-schools agricultural universitiesagricultural universities



involve various European schools & involve various European schools & universities to evaluate project universities to evaluate project resultsresults

focused pilot trials withinfocused pilot trials within Organic.Edunet Organic.Edunet partnerpartner institutions institutions

open validation events within open validation events within Organic.Edunet Organic.Edunet affiliatedaffiliated institutions institutions



create organisational structures to create organisational structures to support the sustainability of project support the sustainability of project resultsresults

reinforce the cooperation of reinforce the cooperation of stakeholders in the OA & AE content stakeholders in the OA & AE content area area


targeted userstargeted users tomorrow’s tomorrow’s consumersconsumers: highschool : highschool

children children to be familiarized with concepts & to be familiarized with concepts &

benefits of OA & AE benefits of OA & AE tomorrow’s tomorrow’s professionalsprofessionals: students : students

of agricultural universitiesof agricultural universities to be educated about methods and to be educated about methods and

practices of OA & AEpractices of OA & AE


Confolio Repository Suite of Tools

Confolio Repository Suite of Tools


Learning resources are annotated Learning resources are annotated and uploaded into the Confolio and uploaded into the Confolio

Repository Suite of ToolsRepository Suite of Tools

Then, they are harvested by the Then, they are harvested by the Organic.Edunet Web Federation Organic.Edunet Web Federation Portal and are made available in Portal and are made available in http://portal.organic-edunet.eu

Annotation in Confolio…Annotation in Confolio…

• Metadata for the Metadata for the resourceresource– TitleTitle– KeywordsKeywords– DescriptionDescription– etcetc


How to make a successful workshopHow to make a successful workshop


Web Federation PortalWeb Federation Portal


connect toconnect to need more information?need more information?

http://www.organic-edunet.eu http://portal.organic-edunet.eu

EmailEmail [email protected]

SurveySurvey http://www.ieru.org/organicsurvey/index.php?sid

=48597&lang=en

Why is this interesting for you?

• Well, it might not be…!

• But try to imagine the tools presented, in a different context…

• All the aforementioned can be adapted to serve:– Marine biology, natural history, etc.