The project objects to discover, to research and to document the unique mountain flavored cheese production techniques and product information in order to disseminate the knowledge to the public so that the traditional knowledge can be preserved and transferred to the next generation. The project also focuses on examining and uncovering the best e-marketing practices of the young cheese producers across project partner countries. The new learnings will be compiled into a e-training program for wide range of stakeholders. Project has 7 partners, Ardahan University, the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED), IMS Research & Development Centre, Elelmiszerklub Alapitvany (Food Club Foundation), Tetova University, Tunceli University and Provincial Directorate of Food Agriculture and Livestcok (Ardahan province). Three Univeristy will have general works in the area of protection, promotion and education of sustainable food, engages with local producers and consumers to organize local events and campaigns for production, processing, distribution and consumption of sustainable food. Provincial Directorate of Food Agriculture and Livestock of Ardahan (PDFAL) is the governmental authority in the region. The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED), IMS Research & Development Centre, Elelmiszerklub Alapitvany (Food Club Foundation) will contribute to the project through assisting in the food matters, providing food and livestock experts, arrangement of meetings at villages. Also the training activities will be organized by Ardahan University which will contribute to other cheese project through its pool of experts from various backgrounds (i.e. pedagogue, training instructors, bio-food experts, IT specialists and Project Managers). The project is designed to deliver three intellectual outputs in course curriculum and guideline formats. The guidelines will be converted into training modules and published at self learning website platforms. The module will also be converted into a classroom training program and will be piloted in Turkey. The project activities will start with Current Nation Report to expose the current situation in the project regions, followed by joint staff trainings, and innovation meetings to discover new production methods and practical approaches to the chronic problems of the stakeholders. The IFCHEESE e-trading on marketing will open new focus and opportunities for young cheese producers. IFCHEESE regional outcomes will impact the national level not only to the project regions but to the producers facing similar challenges across the EU Countries. IFCHEESE project will take the first steps in terms of developing a common guideline and e-trade and e-marketing among EU countries for young cheese producers.

The project objects to discover, research and document the unique mountain flavored cheese production techniques and product information in order to disseminate the knowledge to the public so that the traditional knowledge can be preserved and transferred to the next generation. The project also focuses on examining and uncovering the best e-marketing practices of the young cheese producers across project partner countries. The new learnings will be compiled into a e-training program for wide range of stakeholders. Project has 7 partners, Ardahan University, the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED), IMS Research & Development Centre, Elelmiszerklub Alapitvany (Food Club Foundation), Tetova University, Tunceli University and Provincial Directorate of Food Agriculture and Livestcok (Ardahan province). Three Univeristy will have general works in the area of protection, promotion and education of sustainable food, engages with local producers and consumers to organize local events and campaigns for production, processing, distribution and consumption of sustainable food. Provincial Directorate of Food Agriculture and Livestock of Ardahan (PDFAL) is the governmental authority in the region. The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED), IMS Research & Development Centre, Elelmiszerklub Alapitvany (Food Club Foundation) will contribute to the project through assisting in the food matters, providing food and livestock experts, arrangement of meetings at villages. Also the training activities will be organized by Ardahan University which will contribute to other cheese project through its pool of experts from various backgrounds (i.e. pedagogue, training instructors, bio-food experts, IT specialists and Project Managers). The project is designed to deliver three intellectual outputs in course curriculum and guideline formats. The guidelines will be converted into training modules and published at self learning website platforms. The module will also be converted into a classroom training program and will be piloted in Turkey. The project activities will start with Current Nation Report to expose the current situation in the project regions, followed by joint staff trainings, and innovation meetings to discover new production methods and practical approaches to the chronic problems of the stakeholders. The IFCHEESE e-trading on marketing will open new focus and opportunities for young cheese producers. IFCHEESE regional outcomes will impact the national level not only to the project regions but to the producers facing similar challenges across the EU Countries. IFCHEESE project will take the first steps in terms of developing a common guideline and e-trade and e-marketing among EU countries for young cheese producers.

"wmn&ART is based on a clear need of bringing inactive women in to labor market for increasing wealth level of Europe, as this a common problem in all countries regardless of their overall economical performance; 20.3 % of women aged 25-54 are outside of the labor market in 2017 in EU-28 average.One of the solutions is to support these inactive women for their home-based employment and furnish them will complete solutions and encourage them for such initiatives. There are already financial support programmes and women can receive a subvention for establishing their micro enterprises based on their homes in all partners' countries as well as most of rest of Europe has similar progrrammes; and arts are crafts are supported in a higher rates in some of them including Portugal.Thus, a properly selected field combined with the women's talent and practical training as well as Art Mentor support is a great model for such an initiative, and wmn&ART came to alive in parallel to this philosophy and also knowing the well market potential for handicraft ceramics reflecting local heritage, in Europe and in the world.wmn&ART has two cascaded target groups who are connected to each other from ""art"" dimension. The first target group - named as wmn&ART's primary target group - consists of inactive women who are art talented; willing to deal with ceramics art handicrafts as a hobby and develop themselves in this art line; bring their children in to the scenario for encouraging them also enjoy arts, improve in-family communication via art exercising, strengthening mental relaxing and mental healths of both themselves and their kids; further aiming to sell these art products for receiving a regular income in the form of part-time employment/self-employment. The essential keyword here that primary target group must be ""enthusiastic"" and ""dedicated"" beyond bearing surely natural ""talent"" and ""basic skills"" and ""competencies"". Thus we are welcoming some few percent out of forthy million of target population, still we aim around a million potential within Turkey and rest of Europe! We name them as CHMEs in wmn&ART, originating from ""Ceramic Handicraft Micro Entrepreneurs"".The second target group - we name this wmn&ART's secondary target group as ""Art Mentors"", who will also benefit from the project in many ways, including receiving further professional development mentoring skills' enhancement oriented training; they will have the option to exploit mentoring training from wmn&ART, collaborate with other mentors within art focused activities and mentoring, establish mentoring relationship with their mentees (CHMEs) and optionally offer their mentoring services against a financial benefit, or maybe in the form of business angels, as CHMEs go in to their market and start marketing their handicraft ceramic products.For this purpose many national partnership has been established from several countries including associated partners and branches as well as sister organisations; so making the total of eleven countries in Europe, where ceramics handicrafts are popular. As handicrafts reflect local/national heritage, their popularity are always more when they are offered to other culture. Thus, multi cultural and their own heritage makes the idea challenging, not only from the aspect of sharing of them; but better potential to market through cross-border as it is more attractive to buyers - as consumers/buyers always buy local/national products when they visit a country; moreover, when they shop over Internet. Thus, this many-national feature of wmn&ART is not only a promotion but also a need for successful implementation, with maybe validation of the fact that why people are aiming to test different culture products when they enjoy handicrafts; through a bit old but very clear explanation stated in article from 2005! (https://goo.gl/oJr889).Finally, while distinctive conditions of partner countries differ from each other at various levels and slightly, one of the common features is the gender differences in productivity and earnings. It will be highly and significantly be valuable as well as helpful if the sharing of information and experiences sharing."

P&M project aimed discover, to research and to document the unique artisan cheese production techniques and product information in order to disseminate the knowledge to the public so that the traditional knowledge could be preserved and transferred to the next generation. Learning from successful examples and harmonizing the new knowledge with the expertise of our partner organizations, the team developed new methods as to how to leverage competitive advantages. The new learnings were compiled into a training program with a wide range of stakeholders. Finally, P&M project developed guidelines for local policy makers and government authorities to inform them about the regulative challenges of the traditional cheese makers, flexibility aspect of the EU food and safety directives and practical methods that incorporates the regulations for the mutual benefit of artisan cheese producers and consumers. The project, therefore, dealed with the three main problems of the artisan cheese makers, namely, the production methods, marketing strategies and regulative environment and developing integrated learning platform to educate the target groups. Project has 7 partners, Slow Food Italy, Slou Fud Bitola, Spanish FACE network, Ardahan University, Bogatepe Association and Provincial Directorate of Food Agriculture and Livestcok (Ardahan and Kars provinces). Slow Food in general works in the area of protection, promotion and education of sustainable food, engages with local producers and consumers to organize local events and campaigns for production, processing, distribution and consumption of sustainable food. FACE network is an association which represents, both at national and European level, the interests of almost 13 000 farm-house and artisanal cheese makers, located in 11 European countries. Bogatepe Life and Environment Association is a highly active civil organization dedicated to improve the lives in the rural villages. Bogatepe has members specialized in cheese making and milk processing establishments. Provincial Directorate of Food Agriculture and Livestock of Ardahan (PDFAL) is the governmental authority in the region. PDFAL will contribute to the project through assisting in the food and safety regulative matters, providing food and livestock experts, arrangement of marrangement of the training activities at villages. Ardahan University contributed to the P&M project through its pool of experts from various backgrounds (i.e. pedagogue, training instructors, bio-food experts, IT specialists and Project Managers). The project was designed to deliver three intellectual outputs in course curriculum and guideline formats. The guidelines were converted into training modules and published at self learning website platforms. The module was also converted into a classroom training program and piloted in Turkey. The project activities started with State of the Nation analysis to expose the current situation in the project regions, followed by joint staff trainings, focus groups, case studies, legislation reviews, and innovation meetings to discover new solutions and practical approaches to the chronic problems of the stakeholders. Transnational meetings were organized to exchange information and experience, gained from the research and exploration studies, across the project countries. The results of the intellectual outputs was furtherly disseminated through conferences in Turkey, Macedonia, and Spain. The project designing also included a M&E system built on a logical framework matrix including outcomes, inputs, performance indicators, methods and time of measurement, responsibilities, and risks. The improved legislative environment increased the survival rate of the small-scale dairy companies in the market. P&M outputs the first steps of creating awareness to organize a better structured market for the benefit of the government, small farms, and dairy producers.The P&M training on marketing opened new venues for the farmhouse cheese makers and small scale dairy producers. P&M regional outcomes had impact of the national policies on food and safety, providing structural solutions not only to the project regions but to the producers facing similar challenges across the country. Therefore, the national economy benefited from the fair and healthy competition by strengthening the small scale dairy producers, and the underground economy became less of an issue. P&M activities improved the social welfare of the rural communities earning their lives mainly from livestock and agriculture practices. P&M project took the first steps in terms of developing a common guideline among EU countries on food and safety regulations of the small scale cheese producers.

"The energy and environmental sustainability of human activity plays a central role in the policies of the European Union. The rapid and sometimes uncontrolled, world economic development that we have seen in recent decades, has resulted in excessive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG - Green House Gas) with devastating consequences for the climate and the environment, as evidenced at the signing of the Kyoto Protocol and numerous subsequent demonstrations. This is accompanied by the steady increase of the needs of a growing world population, which triggers the need to increase production, first of all those agribusiness. In this context, it is clear the strategic role played by agriculture in relation to the sustainability of its products and the responsible use of rural land and its resources. Increasing attention, at the level of scientific orientation and training activities, is then paid to the so-called green economy and professional skills necessary to develop economic activities based on standards of environmental sustainability , energy , economic and social . The goal of 20% of energy production from renewable sources by 2020, as required by Directive 2009/28/EC involves the development and enhancement of all sources and in this framework biomasses play a key role. Farms, agritourism and agroforestry, have access to a wealth of varied and substantial biomass used for energy purposes, such as bits of herbaceous crops and trees, mowing and pruning trees and shrubs cutting coppice woodland, manure from livestock , food residues. The treatment and management of biomass and its use in systems of different types are therefore an essential starting point for a culture and practice of the use of renewable energy sources in agricultural enterprises. In addition to the biomass agricultural enterprise can benefit and modular inserting meditated and sustainable solar thermal systems for water heating, photovoltaic panels as a cover of stables, warehouses and workshops with photovoltaic panels wind, geothermal and hydropower , in areas that have such resources. The project will make available interactive training materials that help learn the different problems and opportunities relating to the use of renewable energy sources, environmental and competitive advantages resulting from it, the technical and technological characteristics of the existing plants and learning the skills necessary to realization of an energy plan corporate and rational management of plant and agricultural and forestry activities connected.This approach aimed at new professional skills in agriculture, goes in the direction of the Lisbon Strategy in March 2000 to give rise to a European society based on knowledge, the Fischler Reform of 2003 to develop a competitive agriculture, sustainable and multifunctional from Convention of Rio de Janeiro for the reduction of the environmental impact of economic activities (footprint) and the Kyoto Protocol and subsequent international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas and the effects of global warming and climate change. Through a partnership structure that includes all the needed skills and thanks to a broad and timely issues posed and opportunities offered to farms from the renewable energy sector , the project will match the training needs of European farmers who wish to integrate the use of renewable energy sources to fossil fuels in their businesses.The project starts from experiences performed in the last years by the different partners by using the achieved teaching materials and adapting the techniques and technologies available for carrying out plants working by use of biomass and other kind of renewable energy sources (RES). The final training products of the RESAVE project will be different of the previously existing teaching materials for a strategic approach focused on the rural space for the sustainable development of an energy network from renewable sources and for a series of characteristics that make their use particularly effective for i) farmers, livestock breeders and managers of agritourism and agro-forestry farms ; ii) agronomists and land surveyors, students of technical and vocational and university faculties of agriculture, engineering, biology, chemistry and technicians of assistance services for re-use of farm animal waste and crops residues.The course, available online and interactive will be constituted of 4 Modules, preceded by a preliminary general module entitled ""Farm management for environmental sustainability and energy and production effectiveness of the agricultural business"", that provides a legal and management framework of reference for the use at farm of renewable energy sources."