Free training in digital skills related to Agricultural Engineering
Description
With a pre-registration period ending on February 7, the Council of Colleges of Agricultural Technical Engineers has launched a comprehensive training program in digital skills aimed at registered professionals. It is carried out in collaboration with Unión Profesional , which offers it with a subsidy from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan , financed by the European Union and coordinated by RED.es.
Thus, a training plan in digital skills has been prepared specifically designed for Agricultural Engineers , thinking about its practical and immediate application.
The training will be semi-presential and will include 4 blocks (150 hours) that must be completed in full within four months, a necessary condition for the training to be free of charge. In principle, the training project will run from April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Pre-registration is now open and can be completed from this link before February 7.
Online training block:
A. Cross-curricular training in digital skills (40 hours): common to all professionals who undertake the training and lasting 40 teaching hours.
- It contains modules covering the 21 digital competences included in the European Digital Competences Framework Digcomp 2.2, divided into 5 areas:
– Information and data processing
– Communication and collaboration
– Creation of digital content
- Security
– Problem solving
This is a training course in which you will have to choose between 23 courses (each lasting 5-10 hours), which add up to a total of 160 hours, of which you must complete a total of 40 teaching hours.
B. Specific training in digital skills (80 hours): specific for Agricultural Engineers and lasting 80 teaching hours.
- It includes the following courses:
– Basic QGIS (10 hours)
– Spatial databases: PostGIS (10 hours)
– QGIS applied to agriculture (15 hours)
– QGIS applied to urban planning and cadastre (15 hours)
– QGIS on mobile devices (15 hours)
– Mastery of the Electronic Headquarters of the Cadastre and Geoportal Registrars: georeferencing, graphic validation and digital applications (15 hours)
In-person training and webinar:
C. In-person training (20 hours): specific for Agricultural Engineers and lasting 20 teaching hours, in which the following course will be taught:
- – Drone pilot for agriculture (20 hours)
D. Webinar training (10 hours): specific for Agricultural Engineers and lasting 10 hours, in which the following course will be taught in webinar format:
- – What is QGIS and its application in the agricultural world (10 hours)