Objective
NEXTFOOD will drive the crucial transition to more sustainable and competitive agrifood and forestry systems development by designing and implementing education and training systems to prepare budding or already practicing professionals with competencies to push the green shift in our rapidly changing society. NEXTFOOD will challenge the linear view of knowledge transfer as a top-down process from research to advice and practice, and support the transition to more learner-centric, participatory, action-based and action-oriented education and learning in agrifood and forestry systems. In several pioneering case studies, covering agrifood and forestry systems in Europe, Asia and Africa, farmers solve real challenges related to sustainability together with researchers, students and other relevant stakeholders while developing both green technical skills and soft collaborative competencies.
NEXTFOOD will assure quality in research and education by creating a peer-review system for evaluation of practice-oriented research outputs focusing on sustainability and practical usefulness. In addition, we will develop an international accreditation framework for education and training in fields relevant to sustainable agrifood and forestry systems. An innovative action research process will guide the NEXTFOOD project’s development in a cyclical manner, ensuring that the research process and actual case studies are ever-improving. This will exemplify how practice-oriented research can be instrumental to achieve: better collaboration between university and society, more innovation in the agrifood and forestry systems sector, and a progressive agrifood community ready to tackle complex sustainability challenges of the 21st century
Field of science
- /agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/forestry
- /social sciences/other social sciences/social sciences interdisciplinary/sustainable development
- /agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/agriculture/sustainable agriculture
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-RUR-2017-2
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
750 07 Uppsala
Sweden
Participants (19)
22100 Lund
410087 Oradea
370 05 Ceske Budejovice
1433 As
55102 Thessaloniki
40126 Bologna
779 00 Olomouc
75183 Uppsala
546 27 Thessaloniki
75116 Paris
53173 Bonn
1535 Cairo
Mekelle
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
1190 Wien
Participation ended
1799 Kobenhavn
12042 Bra
10 Santiago
4000 Roskilde
