Abstract:

In Serbia there is a lack of courses for professional development of teachers from agricultural secondary schools, particularly courses in animal sciences. There is also a need of permanent upgrading of courses created for advisors in agricultural advisory services. The TEMPUS CaSA project objective is to contribute to the improvement of agricultural education, particularly in-service training and LLL to meet the needs of Serbian society. The project will upgrade quality and availability of vocational agricultural education by strengthening professional and pedagogical competences of educators (University teachers, secondary school teachers, advisors). CaSA foresees creation of the virtual repository for courses and additional contents important for agricultural education - the National Repository for Agricultural Education (NaRA). NaRA will enable networking of all stakeholders in agricultural education and assure sustainability. Among 13 project partners, the Ministry of education is a compulsory partner for Structural Measures TEMPUS projects. This is important for recognition of the National repository by relevant state authorities. Online courses and teaching material, live stream trainings, results from the research projects, and different data bases will be available in NaRA after project life-time.

Keywords:

EU TEMPUS project, agricultural knowledge transfer, innovation, NaRA.