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Educating farmers online

19/01/2011

Within ‘the development of new Internet services’ category, the association called ‘Novi početak’ [New Beginning] from Bačka Topola has initiated a project for organising an online system of remote education intended for agricultural producers at the following Website: www.edukacija.org.rs. This is one of the projects co-financed by the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS).

The project is aimed at providing material for educating farmers within the following systems: “Farm owners with silver ears of corn” and “Farm owner with golden ears of corn”, which adhere both to European and local regulations on education in extracurricular educational system. The project will enable agricultural producers learn according to their capacities and needs. Internet use, education methods and learning materials are meant to assist them to develop a need for browsing and finding professional materials and analyses. Its final aim is to help agricultural producers reach a higher level of Internet use and accept it as a means of learning.

All course attendants who pass the final exam, that is successfully pass all tests, will obtain the following certificates “Farm owners with silver ears of corn” and “Farm owner with golden ears of corn”. It’s important to stress that with this certificate farmers will be given the right to directly access European funds and apply for financial assets intended for agricultural producers.