LAND-MOBILITY - Innovative and digital training materials to foster land mobility

The LAND-MOBILITY project aims to develop training materials for establishing land mobility services in partner countries to promote similar initiatives across EU Member States and internationally. Ultimately, the project aims to ensure land in Europe remains in sustainable ownership, preventing abandonment, and serves as a tool for empowerment and entrepreneurship.
1. Objectives: To promote initiatives and innovative concepts surrounding land mobility by developing training materials and guidelines for landowners, farmers, authorities, and advisors in land mobility services, land management partnerships, and farm take-over brokerage; To promote agricultural land staying in the sector and the continuation of the EU family-like farming model; To lead to a more innovative, competitive, environmentally sustainable, and technologically-friendly EU agricultural sector; To slow the annual increase in losses in the number of farms in Europe.
2. Approach: Develop guidelines for establishing land mobility services,create an educational video to raise awareness of land mobility concepts and the access to land problem for young farmers, produce open access training materials, including a mobile training application for land mobility brokers and advisors, develop training materials for farmers (successor and predecessor) on important topics.
3. Target Audience: Local authorities, farm advisory centres, farming organisations, and other rural actors, Land mobility brokers and advisors, Farmers (both successor and predecessor).
4. Outcomes: Upskilling of several rural actors and members of participating organisations through broker training; Upskilling of successor and predecessor farmers by providing learning tools for farming take-up or slow-down; Increased awareness of the impact of new approaches to land mobility on the ageing demographics of the land management sector; Increased establishment and take-up of land mobility initiatives; Better access to land for European young farmers; Adaptation of Europe's family farming model to non-family partnerships while maintaining values of quality, diversity, locality, and sustainability.