<< Background >>Climate change adversely affects the socio-economic development in rural areas due to the decrease in water resources, agricultural production and labor. Sudden temperature changes, seasonal fluctuations and natural disasters such as floods, hails, storms, etc. lead to decrease in the production efficiency in agriculture and water scarcity. Creating awareness on climate change adaptation and raising human resources to fulfill these adaptations in agriculture has gained importance. Unfortunately, the curriculums of the agricultural vocational high schools do not raise students by addressing these contemporary climate change problems. This gap between the VET system and the agriculture sector causes inefficient use of scarce resources and makes rural areas vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. At this point, our project aims to enhance the capability of climate change adaptation and struggle with these unfavorable effects through VET learning on agricultural water-use efficiency in rural areas. In this respect, the needs that our project address are as in following:The current curriculums of agricultural VET system, especially in Turkey, are not up-to-date and do not address effective solutions for climate change adaptation on agricultureThere is a lack of a holistic, inclusive and innovative policy recommendation for VET system in line with climate change adaptationThe technical and institutional capacity of agricultural VET schools are not well-equippedVET trainers and providers’ knowledge and competencies on smart farming perspective to struggle with the adverse effects of climate change are not sufficient VET students’ attraction and sensitivity to create sustainable agricultural environment is low<< Objectives >>Our project aims to enhance climate change adaptation and resilience through VET learning on agriculture by addressing sustainable agricultural water management and agrometeorological literacy. The specific aims are:To improve the level of competencies and skills of VET students on agrometeorological literacy and sustainable irrigation management system.To equip VET teachers with educational materials and innovative training tools on agrometeorological literacy, new irrigation methods, smart farming and policies for climate change adaptation in agriculture. To raise an awareness of the significance of climate change adaptation on agricultureImplementation: What activities are you going to implement?developing a policy recommendation report to create an innovative agricultural VET system in line with climate change adaptation designing training modules on agro-meteorological literacy and agricultural water management designing an e-learning platform and a game applicationraising 4 VET trainers of TURAM and 2 staff members of of Silivri Municipality on agro-meteorological literacy and agricultural water management providing a pilot training programs to 30 VET students and a seminar to 50 farmers raising awareness of the impacts of climate change on agriculture<< Implementation >>WP1/ Preliminary: After the project approval, organizational, managerial and administrative preparations will be made under this work package. Within this framework, the following sub-activities will be carried out:1) The project identity work will be carried out.2) The dissemination plan will be prepared to pursue an efficient communication strategy between the project consortium and relevant stakeholders, and among the partners.3) Quality Assurance and Risk Management Plan will be prepared to draw an efficient framework for monitoring and evaluation system of the project. WP2/ Developing a policy recommendation report for an innovative agricultural VET system: Under this work package, PR-1/a policy recommendation report will be developed. This document also provides a basis for the training courses (PR-2 and PR-3). To do this, the following sub-activities will be implemented:1) Need analysis will be conducted through a workshop and a survey with the participation of 100 farmers in Silivri. (50 for other partners)2) Desk research will be carried out by reviewing the literature, data mining and searching international, national and regional policies and strategies related to the adaptation methods of climate change on the agricultural VET system, specifically the agricultural irrigation system and agrometeorological literacy.3) The curriculum examples and good practice examples of the consortium countries will be compiled4) All findings and inputs will be evaluated by the project partners and policies will be recommended to develop an innovative agricultural VET system in line with the climate change adaptation. This policy recommendation report will be presented to the attention of The Directorate-General for Vocational and Technical Education of Turkey in The Project Closing Meeting. Under the work packages of WP3 and WP4, the training courses on agricultural water management (PR-2) and agrometeorological literacy (PR-3) will be designed by the relevant project partners. Each training course will be designed in cooperation with 2 project partners. Within this scope, a literature review on these subjects will be made to prepare the theoretical part of the courses. Good practices and case studies will be examined. Quizzes will be prepared. Through these training courses, target groups will acquire the basic knowledge and key competencies on these subjects. Under the work package WP5 and WP6, an e-learning platform and game application will be designed and developed through the critics and recommendations of the partners. These innovative tools will not only make learning enjoyable but also raise awareness on the significance of these issues on agriculture in a wide audience. In addition to the training courses, The VET trainers and providers will be equipped with these tools for providing effective training to the target groups.Under the work package WP7, training of trainers will be provided to 4 VET trainers of TURAM and 2 staff members of the municipality by the project partners responsible for designing training courses. This will guarantee the sustainability of the training programs and the derived services after the project finalization. Through the work package of WP8, the trained VET trainers and providers will provide the pilot training to 30 VET students of TURAM under the school club and give a seminar to 50 farmers.WP9/ Quality Assurance and Risk Management System: This work package will assure the quality of the project results and activities through a vigorous monitoring and evaluation system.WP10/ Closing: The whole project management and implementation process including the project results and activities will be assessed by the project partners in The Ex-Post Evaluation Project Meeting. The project results will be disseminated through multiplier events at local, national and international levels.<< Results >>With our project, the following project results will be expected to received:1- A policy recommendation document for an innovative agricultural VET system focusing on agro-meteorological literacy and agricultural water management will be prepared.2- A training course on agricultural water management will be designed. 3- A training course on agro-meteorological literacy will be designed. 4- An e-learning platform including the training courses, internship matching system between farmers and students and self assessment tool for farmers will be designed.5- A game application on the impacts of climate change on agriculture will be designed. Besides, the following outcomes will be expected to received:Raising awareness of the impacts of climate change on agricultureDeveloping competencies and skills of the target groups on sustainable agricultural water management and agrometeorological literacy Increasing the technical and institutional capacity of agricultural VET schools Improving knowledge and competencies of VET trainers and providers Attracting VET students’ attention to create a sustainable agricultural environment and increasing their sensitivity to climate changeSharing knowledge and experience among the partners