Towards a European Massive Open Online Course on Urban Agriculture

Meeting, Nov 5, 2026: A genuinely collaborative European approach, bringing together existing projects, networks, training organisations, researchers, practitioners and public authorities.

By Claire Mouquet
Chargée de mission Capitalisation
Réseau national – Les Cols verts
The URBAGRI+ team
Oct 8, 2026

Dear all,

We are approaching the end of URBAGRI+, an Erasmus+ KA210 project (January 2025 – December 2026), bringing together Està, RUAF and Les Cols Verts to explore the feasibility of a European MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Urban Agriculture.

We would like to invite you to an online restitution event bringing together European projects and organisations working on Urban Agriculture, on 5 November, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm CET.

The feasibility study carried out through URBAGRI+ has confirmed that there is a strong opportunity and a real need to strengthen the dissemination and uptake of knowledge and practices around Urban Agriculture at European level.

Two major challenges currently stand out:

Raising awareness among citizens and stakeholders about the potential of Urban Agriculture
Supporting public decision-makers and professionals in understanding how Urban Agriculture can contribute to more sustainable and resilient territories and food systems
A European MOOC could be a powerful tool to address these challenges by making existing knowledge accessible to a much wider audience.

However, there is another major issue: a considerable amount of knowledge, tools, methodologies and experiences has already been produced through European projects. Projects such as EFUA, FoodCityBoost and many others have generated valuable resources that could benefit a much wider audience.

The challenge is therefore not simply to produce new content, but to connect, capitalise on, disseminate and encourage the uptake of what already exists.

This is why we are reaching out to you.

As organisations involved in European projects, you have first-hand experience of what makes dissemination effective and, perhaps even more importantly, of what makes project results actually reach people, be reused and have an impact beyond the lifetime of a project.

One of the main lessons from our KA210 is also that the development of such a MOOC cannot be carried out by a small number of organisations alone. Its strength would come from a genuinely collaborative European approach, bringing together existing projects, networks, training organisations, researchers, practitioners and public authorities.

We would be very happy to have you with us and to hear about your experiences.

Please fill in the next form to register, you will be able to add the event to your agenda at the end of it :

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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/towards-a-european-massive-open-online-course-on-urban-agriculture/