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The Erasmus+ KA210-VET Climate Smart Agriculture Project is carried out with partners from Türkiye, Germany and Bulgaria under the coordination of France.
This website has special content that provides news about the project, project partners and activities, outputs, an about section, a contact section and information about the partners.
About the Project
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an Erasmus+ KA210-VET partnership project coordinated by MFR Lesneven (France) with partners from Turkey (Fatma Aliye Vocational and Technical High School), Germany (DEULA-Nienburg), and Bulgaria (Vocational High School of Agriculture “Nikola Pushkarov”).
The project aims to integrate climate-smart agricultural practices into vocational education and training (VET), empowering teachers, students, and local agricultural communities to adapt to climate change and promote sustainable farming systems. It runs from April 2025 to September 2026 with a total grant of €60,000 (lump sum).
Climate Smart Agriculture seeks to bridge the gap between climate change awareness and practical agricultural education. The project promotes resilience by equipping teachers and learners with the knowledge, tools, and digital competences to understand, mitigate, and adapt to the effects of climate change. Key priorities include: enhancing sustainability in VET curricula, promoting AI & Agriculture 4.0 applications, supporting water and soil management innovation, and empowering rural areas to implement smart, low-carbon farming solutions.
Throughout its 18-month lifecycle, CSA implements five interconnected activities that combine international learning, local adaptation, and digital dissemination:
1️⃣ Cultivating Climate Resilience: From Ocean to Farm (France) – a five-day training exploring the interconnection between oceans, water resources, soil carbon, and agricultural resilience. Partners exchange good practices on agroforestry, decarbonized energy, and biogas systems, linking theory with hands-on learning.
2️⃣ Sustainable Water Management (Germany) – organized alongside the AGRITECHNICA Fair in Hannover, this activity introduces innovative irrigation systems, digital sensors, and data-driven solutions for water efficiency in agriculture. Participants also visit demonstration farms and technology labs.
3️⃣ Climate Smart Tools for Green Future (Bulgaria) – a three-month collaborative phase devoted to developing the CSA Sourcebook for VET, containing lesson plans, case studies, infographics, and podcasts that support teachers in integrating CSA concepts into their classrooms.
4️⃣ Climate Change vs Greenhouse Farming (Turkey) – a five-day training focusing on protected agriculture, hydroponics, automation, and energy-efficient greenhouse systems. Teachers and students explore strategies to reduce emissions and adapt crop production to changing climate conditions.
5️⃣ CSA Toolkit for VET: Local Adaptation & Community Engagement (Bulgaria) – the final three-month stage dedicated to producing the CSA Toolkit, an open educational resource including multimedia materials, simulation-based exercises, and best-practice guidelines for vocational educators.
By combining research, training, and innovation, the CSA project strengthens the capacity of vocational schools to address environmental challenges and prepare the next generation of climate-smart farmers. It contributes directly to the EU Green Deal, the Farm-to-Fork Strategy, and Erasmus+ priorities on environmental sustainability and digital transformation. The project’s outcomes will remain freely accessible through the official CSA website and partner platforms, ensuring long-term impact beyond the project’s lifetime.
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What is Climate Smart Agriculture?
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to help the people who manage agricultural systems respond effectively to climate change. The CSA approach pursues the triple objectives of sustainably increasing productivity and incomes, adapting to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions where possible. This does not imply that every practice applied in every location should produce “triple wins”. Rather the CSA approach seeks to reduce trade-offs and promote synergies by taking these objectives into consideration to inform decisions from the local to the global scales and over short and long time horizons, to derive locally-acceptable solutions.
The majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas and agriculture is their most important income source. Developing the potential to increase the productivity and incomes from smallholder crop, livestock, fish and forest production systems will be the key to achieving global food security over the next twenty years. Climate change is expected to hit developing countries the hardest. Its effects include higher temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events. All of these pose risks for agriculture, food and water supplies. Resilience is therefore a predominant concern. Agriculture is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigation can often be a significant co-benefit of actions to strengthen adaptation and enhance food security, and thus mitigation action compatible with national development priorities for agriculture is an important aspect of CSA.