I - RESTART

The I-RESTART (Inclusive REskilling and upSkilling Toward competitive Agrifood and veterinary sectoR: European agenda StraTegy) project aims reskilling and upskilling the workforce in the agrifood and veterinary sectors, retrain the employees leaving the heavy industry to hire them in the agrifood sector, and engage some students that want to enter the agrifood labor market, to improve their digital skills and facilitate the transition to the Green Deal initiative.

To reach these objectives, I-RESTART will facilitate the inter-sectoral and intergenerational skills transfers through the adoption of an innovative micro-credentials methodology that will provide inclusive, flexible and engaging work-based patterns with mentors while opening the ecosystem also to external workers.

The project, complementing the FIELDS Blueprint on agriculture and forestry, will provide the tools to tackle the future challenges with the offering of 10 occupational profiles (EQF 4, 5 and 6) for a total of 3200 hours of training and 3600 hours of work-based learning period. In total 16 trainers and 120 trainees will benefit from the pilot training in 8 countries, and 40 students will complete the work-based learning scheme that also includes the advanced entrepreneurial skills and involves 32 mentors.

The 29 partners consortium from 11 countries will identify skills needed (including urgent ones) and gaps, create occupational profiles, detailed curricula, design European strategies and 10 country roadmaps to reflect the country's needs while keeping EU quality standards (ESCO, EQAVET) to address the mobility of learners through Europe.

A strong connection will be established with the Pact for Skills initiative, in order to make useful content for the members that will implement the pact.
The consortium is composed of: 28 high profile full partners and 1 associated partner. A part of the consortium is focused on education and training (training pilots will take place in 8 countries) while the other part is focused on the representativeness of the sectors, namely:

12 Education and training providers, all active in the veterinary, agriculture or food industry sectors (UNITO, WUR, AARHUS, AERES, UNITE, UHOH, UMU, INFOR, LVA, CTAEX, AKMI, OC)
3 Education and trainings network (ISEKI, EFVET and ACEEU)
10 Food industry representatives (FDE, EIT FOOD, LVA, ANIA, FIAB, GZS, SEVT, SCOOP, FEDER, CLITRAVI).

I-RESTART aims at:
● reskill/upskill workers of the agrifood industry and veterinary sector (maintenance workforce goal)
● reskill people left from heavy industry (10%) of laid off (partial absorption of external workforce)
● student training (5%) of the hired workforce (new entry level of students platea)

Duration: 48 months
 
Financing: 3 840 256,00 €
UniTe C0-financing: 20 %

• https://www.erasmus-i-restart.eu/