AGRICOM Project Final Conference & International Symposium on Advances in Irrigation & Hydroponics

May 24, 2013 - PRLog -- The final conference of the AGRICOM Project (“Transfer of Water Competence Model to Agricultural Competences”) invites professionals, representatives of national and regional authorities, as well as all others involved in management and training in the agricultural sector to take part and learn about the AGRICOM’s innovative and tested approach to competence development in the European agricultural sector through the Agricultural Competence Model (ACM). To this end, the AGRICOM Final Conference will be based around a presentation of all project results, potential use cases, as well as future plans for said results and use cases.

At the same time, the aim of this event is also to present the latest research results in the field of irrigation and hydroponics in order to connect the actual needs of the agricultural sector with the potential exploitation of ACM. Renowned international experts will be involved in the introduction of the current state of irrigation and hydroponics. Professionals from the following fields especially stand to gain from participation at the AGRICOM Final Conference & International Symposium on Advances in irrigation and hydroponics:

Agronomists, horticulturalists, greenhouse and nursery managers, extension specialists, and people involved with the cultivating of plants

International institutions harmonising competence descriptions in agriculture

National & regional authorities describing competences in policies in agriculture

HR Managers describing training needs for employees in agriculture

Managers in irrigation or hydroponic describing working places (job descriptions) in agriculture

HR Managers measuring their employees (competence gap analysis) in agriculture

VET providers describing their training solutions in agriculture

National institutions harmonising VET (professional framework) in agriculture

Individuals planning and personal development in agriculture

Organisations developing their own competence model profile (including the use cases in points 3 to 8 above) in agriculture

Investors in hydroponics assessing the employees of a plant

Service plants for irrigation and hydroponic systems

Pilot-testing was carried out in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, and Italy with the support of the project consortium in order to validate the ACM. Furthermore, this pilot-testing was accompanied by an open discussion for all interested parties made possible through the VOA3R project and its platform at http://voa3r.cc.uah.es/index.php/groups/viewgroup/25-AGRICOM - time still remains to join the conversation there and prepare for the conference.

To learn about the newest updates regarding the AGRICOM Final Conference & International Symposium on Advances in Irrigation and Hydroponics, and to provide feedback to the hosts, please visit the project website at www.agriculture-competence.eu, like the AGRICOM Facebook page at www.facebook.com/AGRICOMProject and follow the AGRICOM Twitter account at www.twitter.com/AGRICOM_Project. We look forward to your comments and contributions!