Welcome to the first meeting with AGREE WP2:2!

On Wednesday, 7 October, the first online meeting took place for participants of the Swedish-Ukrainian project 'AGREE: Economic Development through Agriculture in Ukraine', which is being implemented with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and involves tasks related to Work Package 2.2: the crop production training programme 'Plant Health in Crop Production Aligned with EU Regulations'.

Representing the Swedish side at the meeting were Katarina BÖRLING and Oksana VALETSKA from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Kristina MATTSSON from the Swedish Board of Agriculture (SJV).

Representatives from NUBiP were present: Oleksandra RALKO, Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative Management and International Activity, Nelya SHPYRKA, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Agriculture and Herbology, Volodymyr ILLIENKO, Associate Professor at the Department of General Ecology, Radiobiology and Life Safety, Yana TERESHCHENKO, Associate Professor at the Department of Horticulture named after Prof. V.L. Symyrenko, Maksym HRECHANIUK, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of General Ecology, Radiobiology and Life Safety.

This was the first meeting of the WP2:2 team, but it proved to be quite packed. The meeting agenda included the consideration of several issues, namely:

After all, the meeting participants had briefly presented their previous experience and gotten to know each other better, the team moved on to discussing the remaining issues.

In particular, the discussion of activities envisaged under Work Package 2.2 sparked a lively debate. Topics ranged from the working title of the future programme for agricultural producers, to the selection of learning modules for the pilot programme, and the identification of target focus groups for the AGREE training programme being developed as part of the project.

Following the meeting, the participants agreed to continue holding regular gatherings—initially in an online format – to further discuss the development and content of the training programme.

We wish the WP2:2 team success and fruitful collaboration!