The COFARM project has successfully develop a suite of on-line resources to support cooperation and collaboration between farmers. Developed following extensive engagement with farmers across Europe, and based on a review of the state of the art, the on-line resources include summary reports, a total of 35 case studies and 4 comprehensive modules focused on each stage of the collaborative process.The rationale for COFARM emerges from the fact that agricultural markets & farming have changed considerably over the last decades across Europe and agricultural production faces more & more social & environmental challenges. Family farms are a central element of EU agricultural policy & the viability of many family farms is under threat. For example, only 37% of Irish farms are considered as economically viable; 31% are sustainable due to the presence of off-farm income; 32% are economically vulnerable (Teagasc). Cooperation provides opportunities to secure the future of these farms. Co-operative farming is seen as one possible way to overcome some of these constraints to growth though it is not widely practiced in Ireland & at the present time. ... the current low level of partnerships…is due to … a number of factors including financial issues… as well as social & cultural barriers.A similar situation exists in many countries in Europe. While the benefits of cooperation may be obvious to potential collaborators but farmers & other rural entrepreneurs need to be trained in the principles of B2B co-operation. Agricultural education levels of farmers in Europe is generally low. Eurostat figures show that 80% of farm managers in Europe have practical experience only & that less than 10% have full agricultural training. A major challenge for the agricultural sector is to enable farmers to develop their entrepreneurial skills. It may well point to the fact that if the sector is under as much strain as many would suggest, then farmers of all types will require economic support & greater emphasis on education & training may be necessary. The aim of this project was to develop & implement a training programme which will provide farmers with the knowledge & skills necessary to work in a co-operative environment. Co-operation in the reduction of production costs/ unit, optimisation of energy/ resources input in agricultural production, increase of share of added value for farmers in marketing of products, sharing of farm work-loads & purchasing & participating in the benefits of the processing of the raw materials supplied by farm enterprises all emerges as areas of interest during the project. The main project product, which development followed the OER approach, is a web-based Training App compatible both with desktop and mobile devices. The main elements of the training app are:- A Summary Report about the State of the Art of cooperation amongst farming entrepreneurs in Europe and in the involved countries;- A set of more than 30 case studies gathering best practices relate to cooperation processes in the involved countries;- Interactive training modules providing the knowledge needed to start and implement a cooperation initiative.All of the materials are available in the partner languages (English, German, Spanish, Slovenian, Czech, Italian and French) will be fully available free of charges on the project webpage and to other OER repositories making them available to an even wider audience.The CO-FARM consortium of 8 project partners worked very effectively together bringing a range of expertise from education, agricultural consulting, cooperative structures, dissemination and project management together to deliver the project on time with high quality materials. Extensive consultation was facilitated by the partners close working relationships with the agricultural sectors in their communities thus enabling the partners to gather data at a local and national level. This was also critical to facilitating the in depth case studies (35 in total) which were developed during the project. These case studies show cased a wide variety of cooperation and collaboration models from the partner countries. Examples of cooperation at all levels are provided from farm partnerships to informal collaboration between farming groups. Each of the case studies presents information in a standard format thus enabling users to compare and contrast different approaches and consider the context in which the cooperation was developed.4 training modules were developed based on the learnings from the case studies and also the national reports and are available via http://www.cofarm-erasmus.eu/ and http://learning.cofarm-erasmus.eu/. The four modules coverModule 1: The principles and benefits of cooperationModule 2: Factors that support and hinder cooperationModule 3: Steps to creating a successful cooperationModule 4: Managing Cooperation and Risk