NORWAY AUSTRIA

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NORWAYAUSTRIA

• Information for the norwegian
• Study Visit
• 21.-24. October 2008

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Location
8,3 Mio inhabitants 84 000 km² 9 provinces
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AGRICULTURE IN AUSTRIA Some Facts and Figures
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Educational system Austria
compulsory education  
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07
02
08
primary school
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09
04
10
05
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ASO
lower secondary school AHS Unterstufe
lower secondary school Hauptschule
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12
07
13
08
14
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Poly
15
10
Higher vocational school
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medium vocational school
High school
apprenticeship
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17
12
18
A-Levels
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A-Levels
A-Levels exam
age
school year?
university
academy
college of education  
college
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Structure of land-based education in Austria

• Dual System on-the-job training school
  (starts at 15 years of age)
• Medium level education 3 school years one
  year on the job (starts at 14)
• Higher level education 5 years (starts at 14)
• University of Agriculture (starts at 18)

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School Management

• Who makes decisions?
• General school organisation federal law
• Medium level education provincial law
• Changes in curriculum provincial law
• Farmers are not directly involved
• Committee of teachers, students and parents
  limited possibilities
• Principal of school is responsible to the
  Education Authority

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School Management

• Who pays for education?
• Staff members - civil servants
• higher level schools federal government
• medium level schools provincial government
  salaries 50 provincial 50 federal
  government
• School buildings belong to the provincial
  governments.
• No tuition fees for students
• Fees for board and lodgings and learning material

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• How to create a successful future for our schools
• Engaged teachers
• Identity
• New pedagogics
• School profile

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• Engaged teachers
• We like the students
• We are prise
• We work in a team
• We always want to know more about our subject

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• Identity
• We must know
• For whom we work
• What we are aiming
• The climat in the school team makes wellness an
  the success

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• New pedagogics
• Focus on student-centred learning
• Small is beautiful
• Aim at high quality in teaching/learning
• Listen to the ideas of others

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• School profile
• Each school has its own profil
• Coming up
• Bioenergy
• Animal care (pets)

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Land-based schools in Lower Austria
1.8 Mio inhabitants 19 000 km² 21 land-based
schools (medium level)
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Development in Lower Austria
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Schools and Farms

• For practical training
• Almost 300 ha arable land
• 125 ha grassland
• 190 ha forest
• 45 ha vineyards
• 25 ha vegetable and fruit growing
• Laboratories for farmers e.g. wine
• Advisory service e.g. Wicklerwatch (pest
  control)

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Changes in Training

• Diversification in Agricultural Policy
  diversification in land-based schools
• 19 schools 19 offers?
• Priorities not longer only in production but
  services
• Social services, rural tourism, ECO design,
  health and nutrition, wine management, family
  assistant....

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Farms and Education
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Adult / Further Training

• What is needed to run a farm or winery?
• No special training or certificate is needed.
• In order to receive certain subsidies the
  Certificate of Apprenticeship is required.
• How do you get the Certificate of Apprenticeship?
• Higher level education
• Medium level education (3 school years 1
  practical year)
• Dual Training (3 years on the job 8-10 weeks of
  school per year)
• Adult Course 500 hours

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Adult / Further Training

• Who offers the training?
• Schools
• LFI Chamber of Agriculture (with teachers of
  Agricultural Schools)
• Who pays?
• Chamber of Agriculture
• Participants

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Adult / Further Training

• Who administrates?
• Chambers of Agriculture
• Hand over Certificates
• Decide on recognition of former training
• Who participates?
• People who take over farms and have a different
  training

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Fields of Activities

• Pilot projects
• Farm Symposium are farmers on the right track?
• Creativity Award for Schools
• Cooperation Cowshed

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Fields of Activities

• Publications

BILDUNGSJOURNAL published twice a year for
everybody involved with land-based
schools features school news, articles on
education, methodology, .

DAIRY COWSHEDS Successful examples for animal
friendly construction
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Fields of Activities
ENGLISH FOR WINELOVERS a German-English
dictionary for schools and the wine industry
EROSION sustainable cultivation of arable land
prevention of erosion
COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE detailed case studies
showing the diverse possibilities of cooperation
including extensive legal information
CD-Rom AgriPoly Running a virtuell farm AWARD
FOR Multimedia-Art 2000
The Factor HUMAN BEING Components of a new rural
professionalism focusing on human resources
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Fields of Activities

• International Relations
• Mobility projects for teachers (6 LEONARDO
  projects PEAT quality award for innovation)
• Start of EUROPEA Forestry Championship for
  students in 2002

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Fields of Activities

• First EUROPEA Wine Championship for students in
  2006
• EUROPEA Presidency in 2006 (almost 500
  participants from 20 countries 25 Austrian
  schools involved)

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Future of land-based schools the positive
approach

• Land-based schools an offer for the region and
  its people
• Land-based schools centres of competencies for
  health and quality of living
• Land-based schools lively schools ? healthy
  people
• Land-based schools educational centres in the
  rural areas

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• We like to participate in international projects
• Some schools are searching for partner schools
• Enjoy your stay in Austria!