SIA26: accelerating protein sovereignty through training

To deploy protein sovereignty and agro-ecological practices in the field, it is essential to overhaul initial and continuing training. This is the perspective offered by the Formidable Protéine 2 project, all the more so as a diagnosis has identified agricultural professions in short supply, such as engineers and experimentation technicians. " The agro-ecological transition is now well integrated into initial and continuing training programs, but protein sovereignty, despite being a pillar of the agro-ecological transition, remains little addressed and rarely treated as a theme in its own right. There is therefore a great need for skills to support the transition to greater national protein autonomy ", explains Elise Odinot, Terres Inovia's external training manager and project coordinator. To keep pace with these changes, we need to strengthen and transform our training offer at all levels, from agricultural high schools to continuing professional education.

To meet this major challenge, the project is being carried out by a consortium bringing together the worlds of education, technical institutes, industry and public authorities, to create strong synergies. It is co-piloted by Terres Inovia, ESA and Idele.

For the technical institute, involvement in Formidable Protéine 2 is a matter of course: " Protein sovereignty is one of Terres Inovia's strategic priorities. The institute's technical references can be integrated into long-term educational offers, strengthening links with teaching and the industry, and thus having a concrete impact on the field and territories. It's a highly structuring lever of action that enables us to have an interface between the field, research and teaching ", comments Elise Odinot.

" We needed to remain attractive to new generations of farmers and agricultural engineers, by adapting our training to the challenges of protein sovereignty. It is also important to have a diversity of teaching aids and modules. The project provides real added value in creating training modules adapted to different levels ," adds Guillaume Piva, from ESA Angers.

As for Idele, another major partner in the project, Formidable Protéine 2 will enable us to " renew teaching approaches and tools, encourage transmission with teachers and act through training on technical levers, such as the approach to autonomy on a system-wide scale, mastery of grassland management and grazing, rationing, but also organizational and human levers ", adds Philippe Dumonthier, from Idele.

The Formidable Protéine 2 project is built around three objectives:
- Equip agricultural players, from agricultural high schools to professionals, with the knowledge and skills they need to strengthen national protein sovereignty.
- Create a common base of skills, to massively integrate knowledge and skills in favor of protein sovereignty.
- Develop modular, innovative teaching modules that can be easily integrated into different training formats and levels.

What's special about this project? To think in terms of modular educational bricks, so that they can be easily integrated into existing training courses, and with different modalities, such as quizzes, serious games, case studies, hackathons... to adapt to today's professions, and to plan for those of tomorrow.