Presentation given at the Conference "Bridging the broadband gap in rural areas", European Comission, Brussels F@D was chosen among over 100 projects around Europe as finalist project to bridge the digital divide in rural areas.

2. What future for our agriculture? A day of dialogue “European Young
Farmers Day, Brussels” 17 April 2007, (EUROSTAT 2005)

8. Direct access to the most
outstanding services:
! e-Learning
! e- tools:
! SMS warnings (pest, TºC,
irrigation scheduling)
! Irrigation scheduling,
! Fertilization
! Machinery costs
! Pest management
! Animal husbandry management
! Technical Dossier
! Weather forecast and
agrometeo data
! Pest reports
! Pantry of quality
! Weekly bulletin
! ...
Daily renewed highlights
An interesting menu for all
the community and specific
for five productive
subsectors
The most important and current
information and services
classified by sectors
Link to related portals and
institutions that promote the
project
In Catalan, Spanish, French and English

9. Sector needs analysis
Comply with the training requirements
established by the administration?
Technical management and selection of authors/experts
Edition and didactic treatment of contents
Multimedia creation

18. The students of these courses are adults, mainly professionals
working in the agrofood sector.
To a lesser extent, agricultural engineers and university
graduates in agro-food related studies.
Both targets are very interested in the elearning contents
offered.
!

19. • More than 2,500 professionals of the rural sector have been
trained since the launching of this project in 2002
• Results show the success of our own pedagogical model: over
75% pass the training successfully
• In 2006 FAD had 41 virtual training classrooms and 11 tutor
teachers
• At the end of 2007 FAD will offer 13 online courses

20. • Lifelong learning promotes the development of knowledge
and competences that will enable each citizen to adapt to the
knowledge-based society and actively participate in all
spheres of social and economic life, taking more control of his
or her future.

21. Courses offered in F@D project from its beginning (2002) to 2006,
including the number of study hours per course and the number of
students that have successfully carried out the training
Training offer Starting year Tuition hours No. of students
(2002-2006)
Windows-Word 2002 20 132
Setting-up of young farmers
2002 100 354
Pesticide applicator – basic level 2003 25 912
Integrated production
2004 50 718
Irrigation technology 2004 50 196
Commercial documents 2004 8 53
Calculation of costs and of gross
margin
2005 12 33
Excel 2006 20 35
Animal welfare of pigs 2007 20 54*
Agrarian management tools 2007 50 26*
Control of liquid assets 2007 10 23*
* 1ª edition (a course in a year has many editions)