Description
The I-RESTART project aims at upskilling the workforce in the agri-food sector, including veterinary activities, and at reskilling people from other industries to have them subsequently enrolled in the sector. Another aim is to attract qualified students and to train them to enter the agri-food labour market. For this purpose, the project did an inventory of future trends and scenarios and future skills needs in the animal production, food industry and veterinary activities, in areas of knowledge that respond to social and labour market needs: digitalisation, sustainability/bioeconomy, business models, One-Health. The method applied is building on the partner project Fields. First of all trends in the three respective sectors are identified per country. These trends are summarized in this report and prepared for the three scenarios. Aside from the trends analysis per country, more generic future scenario studies were used to construct the scenarios. In the end three scenarios were identified with the common characteristic that they all strive towards sustainability. Building on reports of for example IPCC the climate is changing drastically and swiftly, and sustainability should a goal in all scenarios. The three scenarios are as follows: local route for sustainability, route continued for sustainability and tech route for sustainability. Based on these scenarios, skills for each sector are identified. These skills can be used in the remainder of this I-Restart upskilling and reskilling project.
