Report on New Digital Skills (1) A recent report “New Digital Skills” by Alexandra Bröckl, Wolfgang Bliem for the Public Employment Service Austria (AMS) dealt with the questions: Which challenges had enterprises to face due to digitalisation? Which competences are necessary to cope with these challenges? The focus was put on five clusters: construction office […]

Agriculture especially plant production or viticulture – we all have to find sustainable modes of production. Green schools in partnership with research! All green schools in Lower Austria work in applied research on questions of aimed irrigation due to irregular distribution of rainfall, green covering, erosion control in potato growing, soft pruning and aimed green […]

The new normal author: Martina Fichtenbauer, LFS Krems (Austria) Today, in keeping up with the spring-like weather, there is a little insight into the work that our students at LFS Unterleiten (Austria) are diligently doing during “home schooling”. The task in the subject technical drawing (which includes practicing drafting for a customer conversation) was to […]

17 goals for a better world by Martina Fichtenbauer, LFS Unterleiten It all started with a two-week project titled “Smart Housekeeping is Climate Protection”. When looking at the results, it quickly became clear that everything we can do to protect our climate is also a step towards the 17 goals for a better world formulated […]

Supporting schools in teaching sustainability From November 7th – 9th Austrian’s biggest exposition for pedagogy took place in Vienna. It is the most important event for elementary, primary and secondary teachers to get newest information for their daily work in schools and kindergartens. It counts over 16.000 visitors every year. The Federal Ministry of Sustainability […]

A class of young farmers from German EUROPEA school Fachschulzentrum Freiberg-Zug visited several Austrian EUROPEA at the end of September. They went to Litzlhof, Kobenz and Krems and saw how different the green VET in Austria works in comparison to the German system. The Austrian hosts welcomed them very heartly and showed them their schools. […]

Three days of high-level talks in Göttweig Monastery Göttweig in the Wachau valley, Austria, hosted the European Forum for the 24th time. Numerous representatives, experts and stakeholders from economy, politics and society discussed European matters. How will our next economy, our next society look like? A wide range of topics was covered in presentations, speeches, […]

Need to find an Austrian training institution in the green sector? The Austrian Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism has recently launched a new platform called http://www.agrarschulen.at/. It provides an overview of all agricultural schools in Austria, covering all levels from vocational training to university and shows you the exact location of the school. General information […]

Photo and text by Andreas Kovac An old tradition is revived by horticultural students in Langenlois, Lower Austria Langenlois (28 October 2018) Saffron, probably the most expensive spice in the world, is harvested this autumn for the first time again at the horticultural school in Langenlois, Lower Austria (www.gartenbauschule.at) This valuable Crocus-species grows anticyclically. Flowering […]

Whoever asks the questions: “Why should I join EUROPEA?” or “What is in for me?” could have got the answer during one of the events in Austria. Why Austria? Because EUROPEA Austria holds the presidency from July-December 2018. Therefore, the EUROPEA seminar was organised in Austria. In student workshops you could see only a glimpse […]

                                                                                                                             by Günther Buchberger In 2006 the Agricultural School Hohenlehen organised the EUROPEA competition in Forestry. Time to get to know the school with its history. The Agricultural School Hohenlehen is situated on the left bank of the river Ybbs between the villages Hollenstein/Ybbs and Opponitz. The castle Hohenlehen was built during the years 1906 -1910. […]

The EUROPEA Seminar took place in Retz, Austria from 24 – 27 October 2018 and there were several opportunities to put the heads together. After the inspiring key-not of Walter Wagner (Austria) on “Innovation as incentive for sustainable agriculture”, the “Walk & Talk” provided the possibility to learn more about mainly KA2 projects. VITEA, Peat […]