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Two outputs have been developed:

• The first output- INTERDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGY – illustrates the literature review and the practices collected and tested in the framework of the project as examples of fruitful collaboration between schools and farms. The practices were identified, shared and analyzed by the project team following the definition of a common template. Altogether 15 practices were identified only 11 were chosen as they met the quality criteria identified by the partnership. The first part of the description of each practice is dedicated to its content and how it was planned and implemented. The second part focuses on describing the context and shows why the practice was chosen as an effective example of collaboration between school and farm.
• The second output- GUIDELINES – contains top tips on successful school-farm links, quality indicators to assess the effectiveness of farm-school collaborative practices and the toolkit. The toolkit is an easy tool for teachers and educators to design interdisciplinary school-farm learning pathways linked to the transversal objectives of the 2030 Agenda and to disciplinary learning objectives. The first part of the toolkit contains guidelines for effective planning between the school and the farm and a table cross-referencing the cards of the different practices implemented during the project on the basis of the objectives and thus enabling the teacher to select them on the basis of his or her own learning objectives and readapt them to his or her own context. The second part of the toolkit consists of the individual practice cards, compiled by the experimenting teachers following a template which guided them through the various phases of planning, monitoring and evaluating the children’s learning.