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Hello, good morning, I am Luis Cardo, director and professor of the IES Agricultural Training Center

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in Villavicencio de Sadodón. Well, the scenario that best fits into our profile is the field of

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environmental awareness. The motto of our school is, if you really love nature, you have to

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know it, you can't love what you don't know. Well, innovation and digitalization are

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two very interesting tools to face all the challenges that environmental awareness

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environmental in the areas that have been mentioned before at the same time because young people are motivated

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and these tools serve as a revulsor to develop all their potential at a professional level

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which is ultimately what they come to do in our centers the green innovation projects

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that we carry in our centers are multiple among them because the restoration project

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of restoration of the Almeda of the forest of Villavicíos Abadón, we have a project

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also of the cultivation of alcornoque from the somatic medium, we have a

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project at the level of composting and recycling of vegetable remains that we are already autonomous

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in that sense and we generate both organic compost and worm humus, we have

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quite a few projects in that sense, with which it serves us as a trigger for our students

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Currently, we are developing several projects with entities such as ESGREFA,

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which is the group of rehabilitation of indigenous species and their habitat,

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in a project called WATERBRIDGE, which enhances the aquatic environments

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such as puddles and wetlands in the form of natural corridors for many species

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that are very unknown to the population and are strongly threatened by human presence,

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as is the case of European Galapagos.

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Another project that we also carry out from the center is a group

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to participate in the 7th Congress of Environmental Education,

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carried out by the Association of Environmental Education.

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The purpose of this project is, through solutions,

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to see what we can do, what we can implement

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for global environmental change.

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I personally recommend it a lot because I have found colleagues

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with very similar or similar concerns to mine,

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always with that vocation for the environment, for its protection

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protection and also for the disclosure of these changes that we are currently trying to mitigate.

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We are in a trial plot with edible wild plants within the framework of the

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Re-Silvestre project. What this project is trying to look for are different species that

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have traditionally been consumed in a wild way. They have gone to look for them in the mountains, in the

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the field to consume, bring them to the field of cultivation.

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I am Sol and I am a first year student of PMR, which is landscape and rural media,

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and we are here studying a bit in the tunnel, a study on bio-stimulants.

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We find ourselves on an agronomic test of spinach.

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This is the result of a collaboration with the Autonomous University of Madrid,

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specifically with the Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Bromatology of the Autonomous University,

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in which we carry out a comparison between three treatments in three lines of spinach cultivation,

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an organic treatment, a conventional treatment and a control line in which we only water with water.

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This is an initiative of a student, Bruno Blanco, who did the end-of-cycle project on vertical gardening,

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designed this garden and well, all the teachers, the classmates, the students and I think that the entire

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educational community has participated in this project, which is why we are very proud of it.

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It is a hydroponic vertical garden, that is, it does not have practically any substrates. This is another

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project of another student, Julián Solís. It is a 2019 project where Julián wanted to investigate

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the implementation of urban tree planting, which ultimately tried to solve three problems

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that the tree has in the city, one is that it is not thought of the appropriate spacing

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for when that tree is going to be adult, another is the problem of the aeration of the soils

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and finally it is the issue of the inertization of the soils in the cities.

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To me the Nplus project seems to me a very interesting opportunity for the students and

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specifically in the field of environmental awareness because there is a natural deficit

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in the cities as we know most of the population unfortunately more urban than rural and

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we want to encourage our students that there is a future in the field from the

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agricultural training center we invite you to participate in this call for project n plus and

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to be part of this community of practice and to look for ideas to contribute to creative solutions

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sustainable, innovative and digital, and to solve the environmental and ecological problems that society demands.

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In this image you can see the aspect and the link of the web of the practice community of the Erasmus N Plus project,

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where you can register for the first call of this project.

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In case of being admitted, you can connect through different collaboration methods among all its members.