SoEngage is funded through Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership in the field of Vocational Education and Training for 2yrs from 01 October 2018 to 30 September 2020.

Project Partners: Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romaina, Spain and UK

The objective of the SoEngage project is to develop training to support farmers engage in Social Farming for economic benefit and sustainability of the farm and the rural community.

Social Farming, also known as Care Farming or Farming for Health offers farmers the opportunity to use their agricultural expertise and resources to provide health, (mental and physical), social care or educational support services.

The farm remains a working farm where people who need support benefit from participating in farm activities in a non-clinical environment.

The partners will share their expertise and resources to create a comprehensive set of online self-learning resources. The online resources will provide farmers and growers with training to develop their competence to engage in social farming. The training will include case studies taken from real social farm practices across the partner regions.

Training has been delivered to over 300 trainees who were involved in testing the training from the beginning and throughout the term of the project.

The SoEngage training will is available in the 5 languages of the partners (English, German, Polish, Spanish and Romanian) and available as an Open Educational Resource (OER) which can be shared easily across the EU to engage farmers in social farming.

As a result of the development of these easily accessible online and digital platforms the training can be shared easily across Europe to engage farmers in social farming. This will benefit farmers through the entrepreneurial opportunity it provides them. It will benefit the people who use the social farm services by providing more professional services and will benefit the wider rural community through the social, economic and cultural sustainability.

To visit the SoEngage website click here SoEngage.eu 

To view the leaflet click here

The overall objective of SoEngage Plus is to support farmers to learn about and engage in social farming and to promote their social farm supports for the economic benefit and sustainability of the farm and the rural community.

The aim is to inspire farmers to engage others in social farming by sharing podcasts and digital videos of best practice social farm case studies from other regions to generate ideas which can be adapted and transferred to their farm to generate economic and social benefits. This will add value to the local economy, at the national level with the view that this will impact at regional and European levels through widespread dissemination.

SoEngage Plus will produce:
– Learning resources (Handbook and tutorials) to enable social farmers to produce digital videos to promote their social farm and the supports they provide.
– Digital videos of social farm case studies to support farmers learn about, generate ideas and develop the skills needed to deliver a professional social farm service
– Podcasts of social farm experts from each region to promote the benefits of social farming and support available.
– Online Learning Resources: Handbook & Tutorials
– Digital Videos & Podcasts: to enhance training materials on the SoEngage learning Platform and dedicated YouTube channel.

Sharing best practice in social farming will boost skills and employability, one of the Erasmus+ programme overall objectives.

To visit the SoEngage website click here SoEngage.eu 

To view the leaflet click here