CFPPA has invested heavily in several different Euopean programmes since 1993. We have participated in more than 30 programmes since then: Leonardo da Vinci, Equal, Grundtvig and others!
Since 1994 we have been a member of the association NYMPHEA bringing together just over 25 centers of agricultural and rural training in 15 European countries. We are currently partners in:
http://www.europe-education-formation.fr/
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The training of those involved in rural development and rural Tourism. 8 European partners. Project finishes in December 2007.
This project has enabled us to develop several training programmes in particular with the members of Gites of France 47, installating web sites specific to each gite. Project meetings took place in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Spain etc.. Look at our communal web site and those of our partners!
A minor, joint training programme with the owners of rural gites in Spain, the Lot and Garonne and Italy.
Our partners were:
the Centre for Forestry Techniques: Centre TEcnologic Forestal de Catalunya SOLSONA 25280
ITACA with Terramo a Cellino Attanasio
http://www.associazioneitaca.org
http://www.gites-de-france-47.com/frame.asp
During working meetings in Italy and Spain, together with the trainers and experts in rural tourism, we have begun to establish internet links between different gites (tourist lodging places) and chambres d'hotes (bed and breakfast establishments) in each participating country.
Training programmes for raising the awaresness of those involved in agriculture to the problems of safety.
We have dealt with agricultural sprayers, the size of fruit trees and lastly the driving of forklift trucks. There is a document about forklifts (PDF format) available on demand, written by Pierre Testa, our specialist trainer in agriculturall equipment.
Our partners are Italians, Spaniards and Roumainians.The last meeting was held in TimisoaraRO.We were able to visit a limited number of traditional Croatian farms, farms in process of being modernised and complex cereal farms.
You can find the complete report of this Grundtvig 2 project on this site:



Grundtvig 2 :
http://europizate.rural-center.org/