Teacher training

This section presents the training materials developed and used within the Green Agripreneurs of Future project for teacher training activities. Each resource is assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ensuring its accessibility, traceability, and academic recognition. All these materials are available in open access in the Zenodo repository.

Providing high-quality training for teachers is essential to equip them with the tools and knowledge needed to foster sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation in their classrooms. These materials reflect the project’s commitment to supporting educators in guiding the next generation of green agripreneurs.

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Teacher Training Module: Introduction to Agripreneurship and Green Entrepreneurship
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module explores how to introduce sustainable entrepreneurship in the classroom. It covers core concepts of agripreneurship and provides practical strategies and case studies to help teachers inspire students to become future green entrepreneurs.
Teacher Training Module: Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module provides educators with strategies to nurture an entrepreneurial mindset in students aged 9–14 through creative thinking and problem-solving. It introduces classroom-ready techniques like SCAMPER, mind mapping, and teamwork exercises focused on sustainability and innovation.
Teacher Training Module: Financial Literacy for Young Agripreneurs
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module introduces financial literacy in agripreneurship education. It offers tools for teaching students about costs, revenue, profit, and budgeting, with practical classroom activities to build confidence and informed financial decision-making.
Teacher Training Module: Green Agripreneurs of Future professions
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module introduces students to a wide range of sustainable agriculture careers. Through role-based games and activities, it helps educators highlight professions that combine innovation, technology, and environmental impact, encouraging students to explore future green opportunities.
Teacher Training Module: Practical Application. Organizing a School Agricultural Market
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module guides teachers in helping students organize a school agricultural market. It promotes experiential learning by integrating entrepreneurship, marketing, and sustainability. Activities include planning roles, pricing, and eco-friendly business strategies in a real-world simulation.
Teacher Training Module: Circular Economy and Agriculture for Students
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module introduces the concept of circular economy within agricultural education. It offers theory and hands-on activities for students to compare linear and circular systems, explore waste reduction, and design sustainable farm models aligned with the European Green Deal.
Teacher Training Module: Values of Agripreneurship
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module explores the values behind agripreneurship across sectors like agriculture, fisheries, and forestry. It promotes understanding of sustainability, innovation, and local value chains, while encouraging students to reflect on eco-friendly transformation and social responsibility.
Teacher Training Module: Business Model Plan
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module introduces teachers to business model planning for sustainable agripreneurship. Using tools like the Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup, it helps educators guide students in identifying local needs, creating green business ideas, and planning innovative projects.
Teacher Training Module: Understanding Climate Change
👤 Author: Bilgesu Tutal
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module helps teachers explain the science and impact of climate change through engaging, age-appropriate content. It includes activities on emissions, climate justice, and carbon footprints, fostering critical thinking and encouraging student-led climate action.
Teacher Training Handbook: Educating Future Green Agripreneurs
👤 Author: Alessandro Zepelli
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This handbook brings together eight interconnected modules to support teachers in delivering green entrepreneurship education. It combines theory and practice to promote sustainability, critical thinking, and innovation in students aged 9–14 through structured, engaging activities.
Teacher Training Module: Teaching Sustainability
👤 Author: Bilgesu Tutal
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module equips teachers with tools to teach sustainability through key concepts like ecological footprint, biocapacity, and Earth Overshoot Day. It includes classroom activities and digital tools to foster awareness, critical thinking, and responsible habits in students.
Teacher Training Module: Why Biodiversity Matters. Teaching the Web of Life
👤 Author: Bilgesu Tutal
🗓️ Year: 2025
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📝 This module supports educators in teaching the importance of biodiversity. It includes interactive strategies like role-playing food webs and building mini-gardens to help students understand ecosystems and their essential role in sustaining life on Earth.