VTskills - Cooperation for Upskilling and building Regional Ecosystems in sustainable precision viticulture

VTskills is a project focused on viticulture in the Mediterranean region. It includes four universities, three VET institutions, and seven labour market actors. The consortium’s aim is to promote the adoption of environmentally, socially, and economically responsible practices in the viticulture industry. The project's goals align with those of the Green Deal, PAC, Farm to Fork, and Biodiversity strategies. Sustainable Precision Viticulture (SPV) combines Precision Agriculture and organic farming, enabling efficient technological use while maintaining a healthy agricultural environment. The project will create a new, transnational curriculum in viticulture studies that offers digital, green, and resilience skills to train HEI students, VET learners, consultants, managers, technicians, and farmers on SPV.The main activities of the project will begin by identifying the primary digital, green, and resilience/entrepreneurial skills that are missing in the viticulture industry. Research will use NLP and data-mining techniques and will be validated through an extensive investigation with farmers. Partners will then design a new curriculum for SPV that is tailored to the needs of HEIs and VETs. The training courses will use a micro-credentials approach, will be tested in partner organisations and will involve HEI learners (EQF-6), VET learners (EQF-5), farmers/workers, and consultants. Finally, in WP5, partners will design and test the VTskills e-demofarm, a new model of demofarm that features three primary components: formative (delivering challenge-based learning educational experiences), informative (referring to events and EU-funding opportunities that might benefit farmers), and demonstrative (virtualizing good practices already carried out by farmers).Effective and efficient communication strategies will enable the project to gain visibility and reach 20,000 relevant actors throughout EuroNew skills and enhanced synergies for sustainable precision viticulture