During the EAAE Congress in Bonn in August 2025 the e-AgriMBA project leaders delivered an organized session on How Can Education Meet Agribusiness Challenges? Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise for a Resilient Future.
The session aimed to summarize the findings of the 36 months of e-AgriMBA project, and address recommendations for academic institutions that plan or execute the life-learning education programmes.
In 2017, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, three of the founders of Agrimba: Graham Dalton, Edward Majewski, and Wim Heijman, published an article in Acta Sci. Pol. Oeconomia describing the origins of Agrimba as a result of an EU sponsored Tempus Project. The article explores the net social benefits of this example of investment in human capital relying on the concepts laid down by the Nobel Prize winners Theodore Schulz and Gary Becker.
The project e-AgriMBA started in September 2022 and will establish an electronic Pan-European Learning System for sustainable agribusiness MBA education. It will broaden the course portfolios of existing MBA programs by creating online learning and teaching tools. It will extend the AgriMBA network by establishing a new MBA program at the Technical University of Moldova (TUM, https://utm.md/en/) based on the novel system. It addresses stakeholders’ specific needs which mirror the priorities of EU’s Digital Educational Action Plan.
Project website: https://eagrimba.sggw.pl/
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC DAYS 2022 and Annual AGRIMBA GENERAL BOARD Meeting in Nitra
"EFFICIENT, SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS – THE INTERFACE OF SCIENCE, POLITICS AND PRACTICE"
17th International Scientific Days 2022 which took place at the Faculty of Economics and Management, The Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, the Slovak Republic, on 11-13 May, 2022 (Faculty building S-01, ground floor)
To secure sufficient, better and healthier food for more people on the planet requires many actions to transform the food systems to sustainable, efficient, resilient and environment friendly. The conference provides a venue for policy makers, top managers, academicians and researchers all over the world who deal with global challenges affecting the agri-food system.
More information: https://spu.fem.uniag.sk/isd2022/index.php/en/
Bruce Ahrendsen and Edward Majewski have published a new paper on education for sustainability resulting from the case studies during the AGRIMBA study weeks in Warsaw in the Journal of International Sustainability and Higher Education (Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 1233-1247):
Sulkowski, A.J., Kowalczyk, W., Ahrendsen, B.L., Kowalski, R. and Majewski, E. (2020), "Enhancing sustainability education through experiential learning of sustainability reporting", https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-06-2019-0185
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