Towards successful PPP partnerships on Climate Adaptation for Food Security in East Nusa Tenggara Timur OKP-TMT.19/00076 The goal of this training is to address the following:

To update teaching and training methods. Participants acquire and improve their skills and knowledge about practice-oriented teaching and training that shall provide with innovative approaches and tools to prepare their alumni to be the future actors of change as transition managers and practitioners on climate adaptive agriculture. In this fashion participants would be able to make their vocational graduates more appealing to the private and public agricultural sector.

To improve linkages with the private agri-food sector. Participants learn and improve skills that shall enhance the linkages of the academic staff to the professional practice in the agri-food sector, specifically on practice-oriented approaches addressing the topic of climate adaptive agriculture in semi-arid regions. By acquiring innovative practice-oriented knowledge and improving the aforementioned skills participants are able to deliver efficient and effective support to the entrepreneurial communities (i.e., actors and supporters involved in agricultural value chains) that are engaged in agricultural value chains. Consequently, participants  improve their capacity to provide demand-driven community services that will boost the potency of generating economic, ecologic and social value to society ensuring food security through efficient value chains.

To enhance practice-oriented knowledge on climate adaptive agriculture and sustainable value chains. Participants acquire and learn innovative applied-oriented approaches, tools and methodologies that can be translated into hands-on practices for climate adaptation in the context of the semi-arid agriculture and their entrepreneurial community within the agri-food sector. It facilitates and strengths the link between Politani Kupang and the professional practice, in their role as community services’ provider.

To become better qualified to teach and train entrepreneurial skills. participants  gain the relevant skills and methods for delivering the appropriate entrepreneurial skills that can successfully stimulate the ‘entrepreneurial mind-set’ of learners both alumni and actors & supporters of agricultural value chains.