"Social agriculture is in such a way linked to educational experiences already existing within the multifunctional approach to rural development and can provide social and employment benefits in the agriculture, education, health and social sectors.This project intends to bridge competences within training programs simultaneously offering opportunities to farmers and those who can become partners of the evolution of social agriculture aiming at a real service for schools, families social care and health services.Starting from a“learning-by-doing”methodology, typical of the traditional farmers’ heritage, the project will contribute to elaborate programmes based on soft skills, addressed to customers with special needs, and hard skills, such as “gardening and horticulture”, “management of farm animals”, with help of specially trained courtyard animals, “traditional food making”, like cheese, bread, jams etc. made by traditional recipes, “use of ecologic materials for farm buildings”, like wood, clay and straw, “knowledge, cultivation and propagation of herbs for health and food purpose”, etc.All of these training materials, and some more or different, depending of a State-of-the-Art and Training Needs Analysis, performed by the partners in the preparatory phase, will be elaborated, discussed, shared, adopted, tested and evaluated by the partners.The teaching materials, implemented with case studies, keywords for glossary and mulltiple choice questions, will be available for combined training, on the spot and online for e-learning, based on the “social agriculture virtual kit” that will be constituted, like an online suitcase, of teaching materials for managing social agriculture and care farms.The training course will be targeted to different users and level of difficulty and competence, ""care farm tutor"", EQFLevel3 and 4, ""care farm manager"" EQFLevel4 and 5 and ""care farm social/health educator"", EQFLevel5 and 6.The online e-learning platform will be designed and released as user friendly, interactive and available for OER free of charge.The project thus plans to create a dual training opportunity both for practical and virtual fruition, in this way making possible to plan one’s training course via Internet according to the amount of time available for users and implementing the theoretical course with a practical experience at a social farm among those listed as case studies.At the same time, participants can follow interactive online programmes with the opportunity to interact with teachers and other students in the selected course, by social networks, blogs and forums, moderated by the Social-FARMS portal owner.This method thus makes it possible to promote the choice of timing, procedures and customised contents, but without socially isolating the users, which is often a limitation and risk of Internet.The results of the project can enable the best impact at European level for social agriculture and care farm networking, connecting different experiences and listing the most valuable case studies, followed so far in different countries by several pioneers in social farm educational activities.This will create: i) new opportunities for agricultural entrepreneurs, ii) capitalisation of human resources at risk for the difficulties of the job market, iii) full collaboration between the world of agriculture , education and social/health services, with benefits for persons with intellectual impairments, disorders and social problems and their families; iv) attractiveness of social farm methodologies targeted to children, youngsters and adults with special needs; v) experience sharing at a European level, by involving linguistic (English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and Turikish) and technological internet resources as tools for learning and acquiring education and training competences; vi) convergence of themes, contents and methods that make it possible to use common evaluation parameters of the educational paths for “social farm experts” on a transnational level, according to the EQF recommendations.Aiming at realizing this programme, it is foreseen to develop, together with the Modules available online, a virtual library of social farm case studies, a social farm dictionary, training gym interactive tools with self-evaluation tests, tutorial for the training system.The project will rely on various instruments to spread the results achieved, through:i) piloting and monitoring tests performed in all the target countries;ii) social networks presenting and commenting the multilingual training products;iii) involvement of education and social-health institutions;iv) online management of the course through a portal for offline/online use of the training materials available on the web platform;v) a Social Agriculture European Network, in collaboration with farmers associations and social and health services;vii) credit transfer (ECVET) for higher education available from the e-learning course."