English to Greek Other Education / Pedagogy

The pilot testing actually addressed these professionals and its strong point was that the four participants came from different educational backgrounds. All participants thought initially that they possessed all the knowledge that was necessary to perform the du-ties of their new job. Through the process of constructing their own learning pathway, they realized that they lacked important skills and they became very keen to study and acquire them. A combination of courses offered by different universities seemed the best solution to improve the skills of the participants, allowing flexibility to select courses according to their background and skills gaps. There are now efforts being made by the ***piloting partner*** to convince the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture to offer a formal qualification of rural animator to these flexible combinations of courses allowing then the participants to create their own learning pathways with the help of the Matrix tool.