The FAO elearning Academy and IPPC Plant Health Campus

Cristina Petracchi, Head of FAO elearning Academy, will describe how UCLouvain students and professors can benefit from the free, multilingual and certified e-learning courses offered, as a global public good by the FAO elearning Academy.

The FAO elearning Academy has created many University Master’s and Post Graduate Degree Programmes, with various universities and Academic networks worldwide, and this visit is also to explore the opportunity to further extend the collaboration with UCLouvain.

The integration in University Curricula, of the FAO competency-based elearning courses, designed and developed by various experts worldwide, using a collaborative approach, allow Universities to raise education standards, and better equip students and young professionals with employability skills and competencies.

As you are aware, the FAO elearning Academy is adopting the Digital Badges Certification System, to certify the acquisition of competencies, in order to progress talents within organizations for in-service professionals and increase employment opportunities, for university students, who are entering in the professional world.

The FAO elearning Academy courses cover 25 Thematic Areas.