Vocational curriculum of organic medicinal and aromatic plants for Mediterranean Countries

Organic farming of herbs and medicinal and aromatic plants is of major importance for rural economy due to their contribution to agricultural diversification and better use of land. Herbal.Mednet is a project funded by the European Commission’s Life Long Learning Program, Transfer of Innovation, with duration of two years and 7 partners: Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecologica (Coordinator, Spain), Universidad de Alcala (Spain), Agro-Know Technologies (Greece), University of Thessaly (Greece), University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest (Romania), Associazione Italiana Agricoltura Biologica (Italy), APIVITA Organization (Greece). The papers aims to present e-learning training program for advisors and trainers in the field of organic Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPS) in order to equip them with knowledge, competences, skills and understanding necessary for providing a support and technical and managerial assistance to producers and processors of organic farming of medicinal, aromatic, herbal plants in Mediterranean countries (Spain, Italy, Greece).The vocational curriculum developed by Herbal.Mednet project consists of different training modules: M1 – Pedagogy, M2 – Technology, M3 – Business Ideas, M4 – Principles of organic agriculture and organic MAPS, M5 – Legislation and Standards, EU policies and programs to support organic MAPS, M6 – Organic MAPS cultivation, M7 – Marketing organic MAPS products - Packaging -Trade, where each module consists of various units. The first module is about the pedagogical aspect of the training of trainers and will help the trainers decide the best approach to follow when designing a training program. The second module is about the technological tools used in the training context, while the third one is an