Malta Digital Skills and Jobs Platform (LISP)

Training opportunities

TRUST-FOOD’s overarching objective is to address the capacity development-related challenge of Blockchain adoption across the agrifood sector, by designing and delivering short-term training courses in Blockchain Technologies, for upskilling and reskilling of the labour force, with a particular focus on SMEs owners, managers, and employees in the Food Supply Chain (FSC).

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), including Blockchain Technologies (BCT), have the potential to transform the global food system by introducing important efficiency gains along value chains.
BCT provide data storage and exchange through a secure, decentralised platform, enhancing transparency, traceability, and trust, and is increasingly used in the agri-food sector which may provide a robust mechanism for enhancing food traceability and a transparent and reliable way to validate food quality, safety, and sustainability.

The training offer

TRUST – FOOD accommodates multidisciplinary approaches to provide affordable access to high-quality specialised training courses, dictated by agribusinesses’ real needs and reflecting the latest developments in BCT applied to the whole Food Supply Chain (from Farm to Fork), with enabling learning methods and environments (on-line and on-site lessons to meet every need).

The project offers short-term training courses for upskilling and reskilling of the labour force, with a particular focus on SMEs owners, managers, and employees in the Food Supply Chain (FSC) sector. Additionally, the courses also focus on job seekers in the particular area. In more details, the offer is the following:

  • Courses for business’ leaders or managers, to acquire advanced digital skills and competences related to blockchain and how they can be deployed to innovate, transform and expand their businesses, as well as forge trust in their relationships with other businesses and stakeholders in the field.
  • Courses for employed people or job seekers to acquire advanced digital skills and competences of how to integrate blockchain technologies to relevant innovative digital tools in their daily work.