Training Material

The Total Business Plants project offers an Innovative training material based on improved accessibility that provides academic content, practical activities and functional experience.

As a core project’s objective stands the ability to offer integrated professional training in the sphere of healing /medicinal plants. To reach this objective project partnership have developed innovative VET training content dedicated on the following main topics:

• Organic Cultivation of medicinal plants
• Methods for harvest treatment
• Quality assurance of the final product
• Business startup in the sector of medicinal plants
• Extended use of medicinal plants

The Total Business Plants training material is offered in a multilingual joint study programme structured in attractive modes, grounded on recognizable EU tools for EQF/NQF and ECVET implementation. It aims to equip the trainees with certified contemporary integrated knowledge about different aspects of medicinal plants use.

At the same time the project will:

• enforce professional development
• contribute in achievement of transparency of learning outcomes in project economic area;
• increase the opportunity of work-power mobility throughout Europe and help to further development of the new
  European Common Agricultural Policy.

 

Module No. 1	Organic cultivation of medicinal plants
	Unit 1 Organic cultivation of medicinal plants – agromelioration conditions
	Unit 2 Environmental factors influencing the organic cultivation of MP – ecological tolerance
	Unit 3 Introduction of protected and endangered MPs into cultivation – impact on biodiversity
	Unit 4 Organic cultivation of MP – the research, the commercial and the conservation points
	Unit 5 Benefits and social impact of MP organic cultivation – success stories

Module No. 2	Methods for harvest treatment
	Unit 1 Pre-harvest consideration
	Unit 2 Harvesting of healing/medicinal plants
	Unit 3 General guide lines
	Unit 4 Post-harvest treatment of healing/medicinal plants
	Unit 5 Storage and packaging
	Unit 6 Specific guidelines examples

Module No. 3	Quality assurance of the final product (Medicinal plants)
	Unit 1 Introduction
	Unit 2 Sampling of the final product
	Unit 3 Quality control of medicinal plants/final product
	Unit 4 Laboratory techniques

Module No. 4	Business start-up in the sector of medicinal plants
	Unit 1 Business Start-Up Planning
	Unit 2 Market Analysis
	Unit 3 Building Business Model for Medicinal Plants Sector
	Unit 4 Marketing Plan
	Unit 5 Legal issues, funding and networking
	Unit 6 Business Start-Up Internationalization and innovation

Module No. 5	Medical use of therapeutic plants
	Unit 1 Therapeutic plants from Antiquity to the end user (Hippocrates, Theophrastos Galenus, others)
	Unit 2 Ethnobotanical use and modern Phytotherapy
	Unit 3 Medical use of therapeutic plants: indications, proved pharmacological action of known constituents
	Unit 4 Herbal preparations – Phytomedicines – Dosage & mode of administration
	Unit 5 Limitations in medicinal use, Efficacy & Safety
	Unit 6 Improvement of everyday life and general health status