VTskills: Sustainable Precision Agriculture

The Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki welcomes you to the “VTskills: Sustainable Precision Agriculture”, a 80-hour online) course via an e-learning platform.

VTskills is an ERASMUS+ project on Precision Agriculture, focusing on viticulture in the Mediterranean region. The overall objective of the project is to promote the adoption of environmentally, socially and economically sustainable practices in agriculture in general and in the viticulture sector in particular. The project develops a new, transnational curriculum of 80 teaching hours, which offers digital, green and resilience skills for the training of university students, farmers, vocational training technicians and primary production workers in Sustainable Precision Agriculture. The project provides 3 ECTS and a General Training Certificate.

The Scientific Director of the program is Professor Anastasios Michailidis. Anastasios Michailidis is a Professor of Agricultural Applications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Director of the Laboratory of Agricultural Applications and Rural Sociology. His education includes a B.Sc. in Agriculture, an M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, a further Postgraduate Specialization in Quality Assurance (EAP) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. He has participated as a team member or as a coordinator in more than 60 national and community projects (FP, INTERREG, EQUAL, LLP, TEMPUS, ERASMUS+, PRIMA, HORIZON). His publications in international peer-reviewed journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings exceed 150. He participated in the organizational and scientific committees of many national and international conferences. His research interests include agricultural applications, consulting, agricultural education-training, precision agriculture, management, quality assurance, adoption-diffusion of innovations, water resources management and information-communication technologies in agriculture.

The program is also taught by Aikaterini Palataki, a PhD holder and specialist in precision agriculture and training.

Start Date: 1 December 2025

End of the course: 30 April 2026

Duration: 80

Cost: Fully Funded (No Tuition Fees)

Discount: The program has no cost.

Certificate/ECTS: General Training Certificate/ 3 ECTS

Applications are submitted online from 20/10/2025 to 28/11/2025

Teaching Staff

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1.Anastasios Michailidis (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7560-4365)

2.Aikaterini Paltaki (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9147-3396)