<< Background >>Transhumance is a farming system that comprises seasonal movement with livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. It is a prevalent but rarely noticed form of land use across Europe. Transhumance can be considered not only as a sustainable way of land management, it also presents answers to urgent societal challenges: Adaptation of land use in times of climate change by re-introducing traditional farming practices and/or old species that provide an important gen-pool, contributing to the EU-Green deal as production of local food contributes to reducing carbon rates of agriculture and answering the society’s demand of locally produced, high quality food, valorisation of rural areas and stopping the trend of rural exodus by providing job alternatives. Other goods and services provided include increasing biodiversity (e.g. habitats for pollinators), water quality and soil fertility, preserving cultural heritage including tacit knowledge about farming practices and local food products, and shaping place-specific open landscapes that reflect history, community and belonging and that many consider to be attractive. Attractive landscapes may again help fostering rural tourism and development. In sum, traditional farming systems can contribute to sustainable rural areas both ecologically, economically, culturally and socially. Due to their place of residence and not at least due to the movement inherent in transhumance and the often not easy to access place of work practitioners of transhumance can be at risk of exclusion from life-long-. Access to Vocational Education and Training (VET) provides an important opportunity to access information and education for this profession.<< Objectives >>TRANSFARM aims at developing training material that provides especially young famers and rural entrepreneurs who want to start with and/or maintain transhumance with skills and knowledge to better address the changing challenges and new demands of their job such as knowledge about business development and communication skills. To make the access to training easier, training materials will be available under a creative commons license allowing their use and distribution free of charges. With our project we aim to reach the following objects:Objective 1: The first objective of the project is to provide an overview about the current situation of transhumance in the partners’ countries. Information about transhumance is scattered, not readily available and not prepared for comparison. Objective 2: The second objective of the project is to collect case studies of best practice that convey the experiences of successful transhumance practitioners. Object 3: The third objective is to develop digital training material for transhumance practitioners consisting of e-learning modules, general information about transhumance in different countries, a database of case studies of best practice assembled in an easily accessible way for self-learning.<< Implementation >>The TRANSFARM project consists of 7 partners. The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NO), Institute for Research on European Agricultural Landscapes e.V. (DE), Hof und Leben (DE), onProjects (OnP) (ES), the Technical University of Zvolen (SK), the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) (GR) and the European Landowner Organisation. All TRANSFARM partners are very active in the field of sustainable development in rural areas and of landscapes. These partners will be supported by three associated partners (Farm advisory (PL), The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy (NIBIO) (NO), VetAgroSup (FR)). The associated partners add new geographical regions in which different types transhumance are practiced. Furthermore, they will support the already involved partners by providing access to additional data. Especially Farm advisory and VetAgroSup are very much involved in training activities including Open Educational Resources and are therefore important regarding the dissemination of project results.<< Results >>The first main outcome of the project is an overview about the current situation of transhumance in the participating European countries including information about types and degree of practices and resulting landscapes, support schemes for transhumance and specific knowledge needed by transhumance practitioners. This information will be presented in form of a e-reference book providing the following specific results a) 5 National Reports about the current situation of transhumance (Germany, Greece, Norway, Slovakia, Spain), b) 1 Summary Report enlarged with information about the situation in Europe in general, c) e-glossary containing definitions of topic-related key terms to enhance communication among differences languages and cultures. The second main outcome of the project is a data base with cases studies of best practice of successful transhumance practitioners. Specific results are presented through c.15 studies from 8 European countries (Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Slovakia). The third main outcome is the production of digital training material for transhumance practitioners that will be available online and free of charge for self-learning. The training material will consist of the following modules: a) learning modules, b) general information about transhumance in different countries, c) database of case studies of best practice. In addition to, the project will produce the following minor outcomes: Production of material for proper management and communication among project partners. This material will be publicly accessible. The following material will be produced: 1) management guidelines, 2) reporting procedures and administrative guidelines and 3) meeting minutes from 6 transnational meetings. Production of material to monitor and evaluate the project. The following material will be produced 1) meeting evaluation questionnaires, project progress questionnaires, multiplier events evaluation questionnaires, 2) evaluation reports (mid-term and final evaluation report, project results reports) and a Project Risks Analysis (PRA). Production of dissemination material to exploit the project results. The following material will be produced 1) project graphic design, 2) project website, 3) project mailing list, 4) newsletter in digital format, 5) informative brochure and 5) hard copies of the training material (USB sticks) to be distributed during the multiplier events.