WP2 has a two-fold purpose:

Map the landscape. Uncover the specific knowledge and skills gaps among VET providers, educators and farmers across Lithuania, Greece, Slovenia, Poland and Bulgaria through a mixed-methods study of meaningful questionnaires and focus-group discussions.

Mobilise the messengers. Translate those insights into a hands-on Climate-Resilient Farming Handbook and test it in a “Train-the-Trainers” workshop to boost educators’ confidence and equip them with cutting-edge, practice-based teaching methods.

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Phase 1 – Needs Mapping

A rigorous, two-pronged survey will combine:

Quantitative questionnaires for more than 120 VET providers, 120 trainees and 90 agrifood stakeholders.Qualitative focus groups with 5 farmers in each partner country.

These activities will yield the Needs Analysis Report, detailing urgent training priorities, systemic barriers and topical gaps in climate-smart competencies.

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Phase 2 – Trainer Empowerment

Building directly on Phase 1, partners will craft an 8-module Climate-Resilient Farming Handbook covering everything from future climate scenarios to adaptive management and policy advocacy. A pilot “Train-the-Trainers” Workshop in Plovdiv (15 educators, 3 per country) will validate content, refine pedagogy and create a cohort of dissemination ambassadors.

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Phase 3 – Consolidation and Dissemination

Incorporating workshop feedback, all WP2 deliverables, the Needs Analysis Report and the Climate-Resilient Farming Handbook, will be reviewed, refined and translated into each partner language, ensuring pan-European accessibility and laying the groundwork for subsequent curriculum development and policy work.

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Key Results

• Needs Analysis Report: EU-level snapshot of training gaps, barriers and priorities.

General Report

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National Needs Analysis Reports

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• Climate-Resilient Farming Handbook: Modular, practice-focused Train-the-Trainers framework.
• Pilot Workshop: Feedback-driven refinements and methodology validation.
• Multilingual Materials: Ready-to-use resources in all five partner languages.

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Impact

By transforming broad assumptions into hard data and hands-on resources, the FarmForward project will empower a new generation of agricultural educators to champion climate-resilient practices across Europe, spark locally relevant training that bridges the gap between research and the field, and seed a growing network of “climate-smart” ambassadors whose collective impact will ripple through policy circles, training centres and farmsteads alike.