AGRI-TOUR - The Agriculture-Tourism Alliance: From Farm to Fork Strategy applied in the Pacific Island Countries

Despite the Pacific Islands Countries accounts only for the 0,014% of the global greenhouse gas emissions they will be the first to face the challenges of the climate change, through the rising sea level. AGRI-TOUR Project is to increase the EU-Pacific HEIs capacity to promote the application of the Green Deal Principles in the Pacific Islands Ocean; reinforce the HEIs curricula in this direction through the improved synergies between agriculture and tourism and promoting the adoption of agritourism in the Pacific Ocean. AGRI-TOUR partnership is composed by 8 Partners (6 HEI, 1 SME and 1 NGO) including Slovakia, Italy, Samoa, Vanuatu and Fiji and 4 Newcomers. AGRI-TOUR activities include 4 Capacity Building Activities for 16 academic staff members per edition with 4 complementary programmes (1) 7-days in Fiji; 7-days in Samoa; (2) 7-days in Vanuatu; (3) 7-days in Italy; (4) 7-days in Slovakia. During each Capacity Building Activity a minimum of 50 local University Students will be involved in the training in each edition (min. 250 students involved, equally split per gender), the physical activity will be completed with 5 Final Multiplier event including a minimum of 50 participants per edition in presence and open access online. The AGRI-TOUR Project will produce the following main project’s results: 1) an EU-Pacific Alliance HEI International Offices Task Force for reinforcing the cooperation between EU and the Pacific HEIs; a Joint Research with 400 participants about the European Green Deal application in the Pacific Islands territory; 2) a multidisciplinary Massive Open Online Course of 8 modules designed to students living in remote islands about agritourism designed for the faculties of agriculture, tourism and gastronomy tested on 800 students; 3) an Internship protocol for reducing the research-practice gaps in the application of sustainability principles in agriculture and tourism, tested on 48 dyads students-enterprises (total 96 participants).