The idea of submitting a project within the Key activity 2 of the Erasmus+ programme came from the shared motivation of six members of the European Network of Learning and Teaching in Agriculture and Rural Development (ENTER) to exchange good practices in terms of interdisciplinary approaches and didactics-training of VET teachers in the international environment. All six institutions have many things in common: They are institutions at a tertiary level of education - teacher training institutes for VET teachers and they offer both pedagogical and psychological guidance to VET teachers. Doing research in education sciences and through international projects, partners focus on similar issues such as didactic of vocational subjects, green education, intercultural education, interactive teaching methods, teachers´ competences, sustainable development etc. The target group of the ACROSS project were young VET teachers who teach vocational subjects within agricultural or other related fields and concurrently studied pedagogy at the partner training institutes in part-time or distance learning. The main aim of their education is to become fully qualified teachers both with vocational knowledge and pedagogical skills. The second target group of the project were academic staff from partner institutions whose expertise is didactics of vocational subjects, facilitating practical training, environmental education, intercultural education and social pedagogy. Their main role in the project was preparing teaching materials for two summer schools, teaching at the schools, taking part in short-term staff trainings, reviewing worksheets and exchanging good practices in terms of interdisciplinary and sustainable appraoch when working with each other and with the learners. The main task of the project were two intensive courses (summer schools) for young VET teachers from six partner countries. At both summer schools, young VET teachers and academic staff worked, learnt together as well as exchanged good practices how to deal with interdisciplinary approaches and how to integrate the social responsibility and sustainable development approach to their lesson plans and their teaching.The stakeholders of the project were headmasters of vocational schools, who were informed about the project results at the international ENTER conference in Berlin 2018 and at six national meetings in 2019.The topics of the ACROSS summer schools were cross-sectional topics of vocational subjects and civics and environmental education, as well as integration of social and “green pedagogy” into lessons at vocational schools. Students had to verify the newly acquired knowledge and skills through project-based teaching at two Dutch vocational schools and at a German national museum during two-day field trips.The remarkable impact of the project activities was not only on the professional competences of both project target groups but also be on the pupils at secondary schools. Moreover thanks project activities, trained VET teachers will bring new approaches to the lessons thereby focussing more on socially acute topics in their lessons. From these aspects the main aims of the project risen: • to motivate mobility teachers to extend their professional portfolio by introducing methods for finding cross-curricular links between concrete vocational subjects and civics and environmental education • strengthening professional and personal competences of young VET teachers and involved academic staff by designing tasks that address interdisciplinary and socially acute topics during the two summer schools • to encourage young VET teachers to introduce principles of education for sustainable development to teenagers in rural areas • to improve and adapt the training of young VET teachers to the European environment by organising international teams of learners • to create teaching materials accessible in two e-learning courses and the ENTER website http://www.enter.educagri.fr/projects.html • to encourage partnerships between six European teacher training institutes, giving the chance to experts to be in contact and know more about their common topics The other project output was, apart from the already mentioned professional and personal development of participants, reviewed 48 worksheets created during two summer schools. Another interesting project product were teaching materials, developed by academic staff of partner institutions especially for both summer schools. These materials are available on the Eliademy platform within two e-learning courses.Project results were published in national magazines, local press, the ENTER Study Days´ proceedings and disseminated at six national meetings, at several national or international events (seminars, conferences, meetings).

The project proposes to set up and disseminate an original training on agroecology at the European level in order to develop skills for actors of sustainable agricultural development. Agroecology, providing new paradigms for management of natural resources, challenges the interfaces between productive activities, ecological systems and societies. Operating the transition from classical towards agroecological agriculture implies for agronomical academics and professionals of agriculture and development to obtain new knowledge and skills at the interface between disciplines and at the interface between sciences and practices that disciplinary and current academic training in Europe cannot yet afford. To reach these goals, we propose an innovative training founded on interdisciplinary and action-based approaches and on the added value of crossing a diversity of expertise between partners from Northern and Southern Europe. With this objective we have structured the teaching team with partner groups from different research, educational and professional institutions involved in agroeocology in Europe, and chosen representatives focusing on the diversity of agroeocological topics, agricultural and cultural contexts and scientific frameworks. Practically speaking, the training project is structured around a summer school conceived to develop the abilities of students in formalizing agroecological problematics and finding their solutions while taking into account the technical, ecological and social dimensions. The teaching method is based on problem (work on study cases) and collective based learning processes crossing disciplines and academic/professional points of view guided with targeted knowledge inputs (conferences, conceptual and methodological frameworks) along with direct dialogue with stakeholders (through field trips or presentations of case studies). Each year a “working-group” of partners will be in charge of building and implementing the annual session of the school through a specific topic framework. With this process, the training school will be enriched each year by the collective work of partners with new knowledge inputs as well as teaching methods. Each year we will capitalize the yearly production of the school, such as conference building, bibliographies, reports on case studies, and postcasts on stakeholders' media. These products constitute the material pool to build the virtual expansion of the school and operate a large scale dissemination of concepts and products of the school throughout Europe and at the same time enrich the pool of potential participants (students, stakeholders). All the material from the summer school session will be available from the website of the project. Four multiplier events (two Field Trips and two seminars) will disseminate the concepts and methodes of the projects.