Project

I-Restart

I-RESTART is an Erasmus+ EU project and aims at reskilling and upskilling the workforce in the agrifood and veterinary sectors, retrain the employees leaving the heavy industry to hire them in the agrifood sector, and engage students who want to enter the agrifood labor market, to improve their digital skills and facilitate the transition to the Green Deal initiative.

To reach the above-mentioned objectives, I-RESTART will facilitate the inter-sectoral and intergenerational skills transfers through the adoption of an innovative micro-credentials methodology and the work-based learning experiences that will provide inclusive, flexible and engaging work-based patterns with mentors while opening the ecosystem also to external workers. 

The project, complementing the FIELDS Blueprint on agriculture and forestry (Home - Erasmus Fields (erasmus-fields.eu)), will provide the tools to tackle future challenges with the development of training. The 27 partners consortium from 11 countries will identify skills needed and gaps, create detailed curricula, design European strategies and 10 country roadmaps to reflect the country’s needs while keeping EU quality standards (ESCO, EQAVET) to address the mobility of learners through Europe. A strong connection will be established with the Pact for Skills initiative, in order to make useful content for the members that will implement the pact.

Wageningen University and more specifically the chair group Education and Learning Sciences is responsible for the EU strategy on micro-credentials and its relation to the Pact for Skills (Homepage of Pact for skills (europa.eu)). Together with AERES Barneveld (Aeres MBO Barneveld), project activities are carried out throughout the project. The project started September 1st, 2022, and will end September 30th, 2026.

For more information about I-RESTART and its progress, visit the website (www.erasmus-i-restart.eu) and follow the project on LinkedIn (I-RESTART project: over het bedrijf | LinkedIn).