ACE-EX offers its contribution to the transformation of European agriculture through the integration of Circular Economy principles to promote a sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural production model. The project is perfectly harmonious with the European Green Deal directives. It aims to minimise environmental impact, train highly qualified experts, engage in the fight against climate change and promote environmentally friendly economic growth. ACE-EX emphasises the importance of constantly updating skills in the agricultural and industrial sectors to keep pace with technological developments and the challenges imposed by climate change.
Project Background
ACE-EX acts in a context in which agricultural innovation plays a crucial role in responding to the challenges imposed by climate change and the need to protect biodiversity. The current method of agriculture production must use by-products to their full potential and necessitates a shift towards a more sustainable system. Projections underline the urgency to act: by 2050, the impact of a failure to change current production methods could also translate into many lives lost each year.
In the face of rapid technological and climatic change, constantly updating the skills of those working in the sector is essential. ACE-EX emphasises the importance of the Circular Economy, a practice embraced in agriculture and industry and a driving force for professional training. It aligns with the Action Plan for the Circular Economy and the European Green Deal objectives, promoting sustainable and respectful economic growth.
ACE-EX recognises and addresses the issues of the small business sector, highlighting the need for specialised curricula to facilitate the adoption of Circular Economy practices.
Our perspective focuses on the importance of designing innovative and targeted professional curricula that promote the adoption of circular and sustainable practices in the day-to-day activities of enterprises.
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Competitiveness for whom, and for when?
🎙️ Competitiveness and the environment are often described as opposing forces. What if they actually moved together?
That is the view of Théo Paquet (European Environmental Bureau), whom we interviewed at the ACE-EX final event in Brussels on 22 June. ACE-EX is the Erasmus+ alliance behind a European training pathway for the circular economy in agriculture, with 20 partners across nine countries.
His invitation is to ask two questions first: "competitiveness for whom? And competitiveness over what time horizon?" Maximising yields and short-term profit, he warns, makes no sense if it undermines tomorrow's harvests.
On circularity, his priority is clear: diversify farms and bring animals back into mixed holdings, for a real circularity rooted in the land, rather than relying on technology alone to treat waste.
A long-term view, the same one that inspires the work of ACE-EX.
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🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union
ITS Academy Giulio Natta
CEP- Center for European Projects
OpenCom Italy
Sostenibilidad Cámara Valencia
AINIA Consumer
Softcare Studios
Střední průmyslová škola chemická a gymnázium Brno
Patrimonio Natural
Fagskolen Innlandet
Klaster Gospodarki Cyrkularnej i Recyklingu
Ies Federico García Lorca De la Puebla de Cazalla
Επιμελητήριο Φθιώτιδας
Confagricoltura
Ace-ex Project
Competitiveness and the environment, together
🎙️ Environmental sustainability fills the debate; the long-term economic sustainability of farming gets far less attention.
What truly makes an agri-food system competitive when it also sets out to be circular?
We put the question to Paolo Di Stefano (Eat Europe) at the ACE-EX final event in Brussels on 22 June. ACE-EX is the Erasmus+ alliance behind a European training pathway for the circular economy in agriculture, with 20 partners across nine countries.
His argument brings together two terms too often kept apart: competitiveness and the environment. Agriculture, he says, can deliver real answers on food, energy and the circular economy, but it needs to step up. His key phrase is "produce more": according to a study presented by Eat Europe, meeting the EU's 2050 decarbonisation targets would require 25% more biomass.
To get there, he points to a CAP able to back digitalisation, water management and investment, and a European fund that recognises the strategic role of farming.
It is the same challenge ACE-EX takes on from the side of skills.
🔗 Link in bio
#ACEEX #CircularEconomy #Agriculture #ErasmusPlus
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union
ITS Academy Giulio Natta
CEP- Center for European Projects
OpenCom Italy
Sostenibilidad Cámara Valencia
AINIA Consumer
Softcare Studios
Střední průmyslová škola chemická a gymnázium Brno
Patrimonio Natural
Fagskolen Innlandet
Klaster Gospodarki Cyrkularnej i Recyklingu
Ies Federico García Lorca De la Puebla de Cazalla
Επιμελητήριο Φθιώτιδας
Confagricoltura
Ace-ex Project
Versatility is the key skill
🎙️ The shift to a circular agriculture is now a clear European policy direction. But which skills will keep it from staying on paper?
We put the question to Ricard Ramon i Sumoy, Head of Unit at the European Commission, DG AGRI, at the ACE-EX final event in Brussels on 22 June. ACE-EX is the Erasmus+ alliance behind a European training pathway for the circular economy in agriculture, with 20 partners across nine countries.
Circularity, he explains, is a pillar worth investing in to meet economic and sustainability challenges together. And it calls for specific skills: digital literacy first of all, essential for the next generation of farmers, alongside the ability to manage and analyse the data farms now produce, and new skills in management and marketing.
One word sums it up: "versatility, the ability to integrate the different challenges of sustainability" while securing profitability and adaptability to change.
It is the vision ACE-EX has turned into a concrete training pathway.
🔗 Link in bio
#ACEEX #CircularEconomy #Agriculture #ErasmusPlus
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union
ITS Academy Giulio Natta
CEP- Center for European Projects
OpenCom Italy
Sostenibilidad Cámara Valencia
AINIA Consumer
Softcare Studios
Střední průmyslová škola chemická a gymnázium Brno
Patrimonio Natural
Fagskolen Innlandet
Klaster Gospodarki Cyrkularnej i Recyklingu
Ies Federico García Lorca De la Puebla de Cazalla
Επιμελητήριο Φθιώτιδας
Confagricoltura
Ace-ex Project
No one should be left behind
🎙️ A transition can be economically efficient and still unfair to the people who do the work. What will it take to prevent that?
At the ACE-EX final event in Brussels on 22 June, we put the question to Ivan Ivanov, Political Secretary for Agriculture at EFFAT, the European trade union federation for the sector. ACE-EX is the Erasmus+ alliance behind a European training pathway for the circular economy in agriculture, with 20 partners across nine countries.
His starting point is blunt: "a transition does not automatically bring better jobs. It depends on how it is managed.»
From there, two conditions. The first is social dialogue: involving workers' representatives in anticipating and managing change, so that no one is left behind. The second is investing in people, making training accessible, because the transition will reshape professional profiles and call for new skills.
It is the same conviction that drives ACE-EX: a fair transition runs through training.
🔗 Link in bio
#ACEEX #CircularEconomy #Agriculture #ErasmusPlus
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union
ITS Academy Giulio Natta
CEP- Center for European Projects
OpenCom Italy
Sostenibilidad Cámara Valencia
AINIA Consumer
Softcare Studios
Střední průmyslová škola chemická a gymnázium Brno
Patrimonio Natural
Fagskolen Innlandet
Klaster Gospodarki Cyrkularnej i Recyklingu
Ies Federico García Lorca De la Puebla de Cazalla
Επιμελητήριο Φθιώτιδας
Confagricoltura