Stakeholders, LLL-P and EFVET will be responsible to create a closer network of VET providers in EU and stakeholders, both from inside and outside the project. CONFAGRI will lead this consultation with the signature of at least 1 Memorandum of Understanding before the end of the project, signed by 50 partners, to start the Sector Skill Alliance. The HAB will participate in defining the memorandum of understanding.

The consortium will evaluate concrete possibilities application to one EU and several national schemes before the end of the project to initiate the training phase and promote further the actions of the SSA.

In addition to the platform update and maintenance, FIELDS partners will ensure future engagement of stakeholders in the project activities and uptake of the strategy.
Stakeholder engagement require 1) consultation, 2) inclusion of strategic stakeholders, 3) provide high level of engagement.

Today drivers for engagement are important trends, some of them are touched by this proposal: a) communication and connectivity, touched by freely available dissemination videos and training materials, b) climate change and water resources, touched by the sustainability topic, c) supply chain complexity, touched by food-industry involvement and bio-economy.

ISEKI will draft a plan that will consider the above mentioned issues, in order to engage the stakeholders and VET providers. The partners (CONFAGRI, AP, LLL-P, SCOOP, ANIA, ACTIA, AC3A, AERES, LVA, FDE, GAIA, CERTH, FENACORE, FIAB, UHOH, ICOS, GZS, INFOR, CONFAGRI PT, SEVT, PlantETP, EfVET, EFFAT, CEPI, BIC, PA, WUR, UNITO, UCLM) will contribute and validate the plan and will engage their members to use and update the platform

D5.4: Future engagement plan and Memorandum of understanding (M45)