Ecology & Organic TradeActual Projects & Referencies
The Eco-Qualify Initiative
The Institute equalita continued his activities for quality assurance in organic food retailing with the project Eco-Qualify II. The objective of this Innovation Transfer Project was to expand the qualification standards, developed in the former project Eco-Qualify, to a comprehensive European quality assurance system for the further education in organic foods trade and to transfer it into the participating partner countries Austria , Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Germany. The project was carried out in the framework of the program "Lifelong Learning - Leonardo da Vinci" of the European Union and was approved as one of 30 projects from 86 proposals for promotions.
In January 2011 Eco-Qualify II is selected from all
Code of Good Organic Retailing Practice
From August 2011 to July 2013 Institut equalita was partner of the international LEONARDO DA VINCI partnership project Concept of Code of Good Organic Retailing Practice. The partners from Austria, Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands and Germany developed a concept to train managers and stuff in organic and non-organic food-market.
Facing all the problems caused by globalization, financial crises and economical and social deregulations ethical basics for business become more and more important. So the organic trade branch recognized that organic regulations and certificate alone is not enough to assure the authenticity of organic products and business. Therefore important stakeholders of the organic trade branch have started
EUROTRAINERS - Self designing of e-learning
Since 2005 institute equalita is participating in the project EUROTRAINERS in the frame of the programme Leonardo da Vinci of the European Union. The main aim of the EUROTRAINERS project is to create a training program for instructors oriented to offer them the abilities needed for the integration process of the technological tools in their learning environment, so that they will be able to design, plan and distribute training courses through Internet. This training programme will be available in September 2007. The emergence of new technologies is transforming teaching and training in Europe from the traditional modes of education we have known, and these changes mean that teachers and people in charge of training at all levels and of