Inclusive Greening excellence in the African Education and Training Ecosystem

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The project aims to address the challenges posed by climate change and the persistent mismatch between the job requirements and the skills offered by the education and the vocational and training systems. Its objectives consist in reinforcing capacities of VET providers to be better equipped to engage with business associations and enterprises in the agricultural sector, to improve the quality and responsiveness of VET, in the third countries, to economic and social developments related to climate change and adaptation and to enhance the labour market relevance of skills provision and to align VET provision to local, regional and national development strategies related to green, digital and inclusive transition. Green transition needs to be in the center of the transformation of vocational education in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Mozambique and agriculture needs to move from the prevalent subsistence farming to climate-smart, nature-positive income and jobs generating activity. The objectives will be achieved through a state-of-art analysis of vocational training best practices in sustainable agriculture and best practices for pedagogical approaches and VET programmes for agricultural practices beneficial for the environment in EU countries, the development of a training programme to increase sustainability competences of small-holder farmers, the design of ICT-based coaching programme addressing the needs of women farmers in farm modernisation, innovation and market orientation, as well as for the promotion of entrepreneurship, establish working groups of VET institutions, private sector companies and women farmers for the design of VET programme, organize international exchange activities for teaching and non-teaching staff of VET providers to foster mutual learning and targeted dissemination activities for climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity with the involvement of the private sector.