HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-06

Objectives: 1. Develop, improve and apply methodology to assess and foresee what knowledge, skills and competences farmers, their workforce and advisors currently have and need/will need in the future to improve competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of agriculture in light of the evolving context. ; 2. Map, assess and explore how farmers, their workforce and advisors are and should acquire knowledge, skills and competences, as well as who is and who should be providing them in order for lifelong learning (LLL) to be practice-oriented, attractive, effective, timely and up-to-date; 3. Investigate how to widely and effectively disseminate new practice-oriented knowledge and innovations, resulting.; 4. Map, assess and compare agricultural LLL, including education and training systems, across the EU and beyond.; 5. Co-create, pilot, test, and share new, interactive, effective approaches and tools (e.g., exploring the potential of generative AI and social innovation), to stimulate LLL, increase knowledge flows within AKIS and enable farmers, their workforce and advisors to quick, easy and affordable access to impartial and relevant knowledge, skills and competences supporting their decision-making.;

Expected Results: 1. Lifelong learning (LLL) , including various agricultural educational and training systems, are innovative, fit-for-purpose, more responsive to the diverse and fast-changing needs of the learners, and effective in preparing the current and future generations of farmers, agricultural workers and advisors to the future of farming; 2. Farmers, agricultural workforce and advisors have the relevant, comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge, skills and competences to cope with and benefit from the various drivers of change, and improve competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of their farms; 3. Introduction, spread and implementation by farmers in their practice of new knowledge and solutions are accelerated, leading to improved productivity and sustainability performance of farming systems in all three dimensions – economic, social and environmental.