The project focussed on the one side on identifying the needs of knowledge. On the other side, the project identified the knowledge owned by farmers, local network of farmers or available in technical and scientific literature articles. After collecting and mapping this available knowldge, the project ensure a solid sorting out, completion and assessment of this collection of knowledge through some of the best recognized technical experts in organic fruit growing in Europe. After matching the identified needs with the assessed knowledge and having matched learning formats with topics, the project created then formats that are quick and easy to use for practitionners to make these information available:
- 99 practice abstracts of 2 pages maximum have been written and illustrated with pictures. The practice abstracts focus either on the presentation of the recommended strategy (understood as a set of measures to implement) to fight one specific problem, or a specific measure as a part of a global strategy against one problem. Some practice abstracts present the state of the knowledge on variety or rootstocks for a specific region. The practice abstracts are illustrated with pictures of the pests, diseases, or measures recommeded to enable the users to recognize them visually in their orchards.Those practice abstracts have been translated in more than 10 languages.
- 33 short videos of a few minutes filmed directly in orchards, giving direct visual input to one issue. The videos are subtitled in 10 languages
- 3 e-learning courses, giving a complete overview of the knowledge synthetised by BIOFRUITNET by linking all the produced materials together
- 5 podcasts sharing experience from farmers
With this sampling, the organic pome, stone and citrus production in Europe has now a solid sampling of easy to access learning materials to support farmers and their production and train agricultural student.
In order to ensure an efficient dissemination of these materials, each partner mapped the networks and communication channels of their own country. Some of the partners additionally mapped the one of their neighbouring countries. These learning contents have then been spread to the target groups troughout Europe thanks these identified national and international communication networks, through channels created by the project: the webpage, social media accounts, a kick-off event, informative posters and flyers, and through their presence or organisation of dissemination events and conferences.
