Hi, I'm Drew Festini. I'm one of the board members of the Beagle-Border-Dork Foundation and we're here at embedded world showing off the new Beagle-Bone AI. So if you're familiar with the Beagle-Bone, it's a single-board Linux computer. That's open-source hardware This is our latest board has a newer processor from from Texas Instruments, the AM5729 It has a dual-core ARM A15 and along with that has dual-core DSP and Also these embedded vision engines and that allows us to accelerate and offload Running a neural network from the ARM onto these accelerators from TI so we can do something like load a TensorFlow light model Onto it and then it'll accelerate that using the DSP and the embedded vision engines and we can run our application logic in Linux on the ARM We also if you I don't know if your viewers are familiar in addition to the ARM We have these real-time microcontrollers called PRU's for programmable real-time units And these are separate 200 megahertz microcontrollers that are on the same die And that allows us to do things that we need very low latency or timing critical task force the things like Controlling motor drivers or over here. We're we're controlling an LED panel so we're doing that by using the PRU to handle the timing sensitive parts like Controlling the LEDs in the matrix and then we're handling in higher-level things like running a web interface on the ARM in Linux So like this is a great example here with the pocket beagle we're doing a Panel here, so we're driving this Matrix of RGB LEDs We're controlling that from the PRU the PRU is handling refreshing the matrix And then meanwhile the ARM processor and the same SOC is handling running Linux and if we were to connect to it through Wi-Fi or USB we could Load up the web interface and change what's shown here So it's a good example how we can break up higher-level tasks like running a web server in Linux and lower level Latency sensitive tasks like driving a LED matrix Another good example is one of our Google summer of code students a few years ago made something called the ego logic So this is a 14 channel 100 mega sample logic analyzer And we're able to do that because the PRU has access to the pins at very low latency five nanosecond It can read a state of a pin and then on the Linux side We then grab that information out of memory and we can display it display the waveforms in a web browser So it's a good way that we can take Low latency tasks and put those on the PRU and we can take the more complex higher-level tasks and run them in Linux and When you talk about the embedded and embedded vision Parts right on the SOC. Yeah on the chip. How does that compare with some of the recent AI? Specific parts of the SOC's that people are doing is it similar like this? Yeah, it's similar So there's something called the TI Texas Instruments deep learning SDK Now allows us to take something like a tensor flow light model or an NVIDIA cafe model and load it onto the Beagle bone and then it will break that up and Accelerate the inference of the neural network across both the DSP and these embedded vision engines and the bed of vision engines essentially co-processors that allow us to accelerate vector operations So you maybe achieve similar performance to the I think the Jetson nano is one of the board So you can get similar performance in terms of accelerating the inference and offloading it from the arm And TI has been doing that for a long time doing all kinds of different parts on the SOC and trying to optimize like DSP for Very long time. Yeah doing it and there's all these different ways of doing it And when you talk about the Cortex M4, right? Yeah, is it also in the SOC or is it on the yeah So this the TI SOT the satara AM 5 7 2 9 It has a bunch of different cores in it. So in addition to the dual core arm a 15 We have two Cortex M series M4s that you can use for doing lower level Like you can see sensitive code and we also have four of these programmable real-time unit microcontrollers Those are each 200 megahertz. We also have the dual core DSP and the bit of it embedded vision engines And we can manage all this from the Linux running on the dual a 15's One of the other things that I think kind of differentiates the Beagle bone versus other single-board computers Is it's based on a Industrial SOC called the satara from TI So we have all the peripherals that you'd expect in a microcontroller platform eight channels of PWM six channels of ADC And the other thing I think is important is we're open source hardware Which means the the schematic and the board design are all open source including the bill materials All the parts are available in quantity one from distribution So if you're going to embed the Beagle bone in a product you don't have to worry about It being discontinued because even if it were you'd still be able to buy the parts and you still be able to manufacture the circuit board So you're gonna have confidence that this is a platform that you can build the system around you need support for Ten years or more.  Yeah, we do Both ones that are branded as Beagle board org and other ones that People anyone that wants to it's it's a open source so they can take the designs and make their own If they want to call it a Beagle bone, we have a program where we have a couple different programs One is called Beagle board or compatible. So seed studio does that seed studio has the Beagle bone green Which they decided to take the HDMI off to save costs. So it's a lower cost version And they call that the seed studio Beagle bone green And then other times people will just take the designs and make their own derivatives like Autodesk took the design of the Beagle bone black and used it to base the controller for one of their 3d printers on So there's a lot of flexibility there. There's also these two headers so these two expansion headers expose a lot of the IO and We can then have expansion boards, which we call capes So we have several different capes that people can buy to add functionality in addition You can design your own capes as well to add additional functionality to the board Maybe external ADC or external DAX stepper drivers that you want to have integrated into the system So is this also integrated using the Octavo systems SIP? This one is not so you can't see underneath it But underneath the heatsink. It's just a TI package for the AM 5729 However over here in the pocket Beagle we're using the Octavo system system and package So this has all of the chips that were in the Beagle bone black and Octavo Which is a company in Texas took the individual die of the of the sitara SOC and the Power management IC and the DRAM and also a bunch of the passive so on the back of the Beagle bone black so here for example Beagle bone black here We have a bunch of separate chips. So all these chips are actually inside this Octavo system and package So this is the SOC so we have the bear die of the SOC power management IC also is included and Also all of these passives so we have lots and lots of passives on the back So like 140 passives are also inside this package. So the great thing about that is this pocket Beagle Which is what this board is here on on this shio on this cape So it's just a four-layer circuit board So it's great for people who want to customize and make their own boards based on this anyone using ego or a key Cad we have the design available and both can take this design and modify it and add on the other boards that they other Is it easy for them to to do the four layer? Yeah, so one of the nice things about Now that all the high-speed things like the DDR memory in the SOC are inside this one package The rest of the board is relatively simple So you can take this design and that's so you want to have stepper drivers or something like that You can make up for the integrated that all together Or you can use the headers and have it plug into a expansion board, which we call capes So actually one person the person that did that beagle beagle logic I told you about project. He ended up making a variation of the pocket beagle Called the beagle logic which added on probes for the logic analyzer All right, what were you doing mostly this during this embedded world? I've been talking to a lot of people about the projects they're making one of the one of the engineers It's not by today was interesting to hear about their product, which they do a welding monitoring system using the beagle bones So using different sensors They're able to monitor the weld to make sure that it's a good welding joints being formed And they're using the beagle bone to do that also talk to students that we're building robots at university So it's so we're always excited to see what people are using the beagle bone for in their projects So it's a bunch of years now already the beagle board. So we started off with the beagle board in 2008 So this was using an omap processor from TI So that the project started with two TI 4410. I believe so. Yeah Same there wasn't an archive since death. Yes. So this is actually the beagle board XM Which I think was the second version. This one was the DM 3730 I believe So we started off with this in 2008 and then the beagle bone white came out of 2011 This board actually came out in 2013 the beagle bone black It's still really popular because many people have designed products based around it So we still see a lot of beagle bone blacks being sold despite the fact that it's been out for Over seven years now, I guess How would you define the difference between what you do and what some raspberry pi people do or some other? I think the key is that the beagle bone is a really great platform that people for people that are interested in industrial applications and Traditional embedded applications. There's a lot of single board computers out there now due to the proliferation of Socs for things like tablets and phones and media boxes. One of the things I think is special is that the TI Soc is actually built for industrial uses. I think the other key thing is that all the parts and let me come this way It's fun to see. I think that's another important thing Because there's a lot of really fancy arm out so sees out there now like octo core Massive ones, but they aren't usually available with industrial life cycles So all the parts that we use in the beagle bone are available with ten-year part-life Availability so while you might be able to system around one of these SoCs that are used in a tablet or a phone or in a set top box You might not have the same confidence level that you do with the components that we use in here That you'll be able to source them in the future So I think the beagle bone is great for people that are prototyping something that might end up becoming a product because you can have confidence they'll be able to source and build those boards in the future and TI is doing a lot of enterprise Embedded stuff. No Yeah, I mean so the parts that we're using kind of come out of TI's portfolio so that beagle bone AI Automotive. Yeah, so the the beagle bone AI which we had earlier So this chip is was designed for the automotive market. So things like saw self-driving cars In car entertainment systems, so that's why it has things like the embedded vision engine the acceleration for running neural networks So we're kind of following their roadmap of you know for us It's great because people are building rovers that can self-driving rovers. There's this community called DIY Robo cars Where people are building RC scale autonomous vehicles, and this is a good platform for building one of those DIY Robo cars. Cool. We have the rover and the other video was one around here. Cool. All right So checking out what's next is there like something announced for next what's happening? One of the things that we're going right now is the idea of a microcontroller based board that would act as a remote sensor board So this idea we've been working on for a few months now the idea of having a Board that's running in microcontroller with a Bluetooth interface that could then send sensor data back to a Linux board like a beagle bone In one of the ways that we're thinking about doing that is by leveraging some of the subsystems that already exist in Linux So we can we can essentially see the sensors that are plugged into the remote microcontroller board As part of the Linux system. So it's something that we're working on right now on the microcontroller board We're using Zephyr So we're implementing some things in Zephyr that will allow us to communicate with the Linux kernel That's running on the beagle bone That's on that board. It's not on this board It's another board that we're working on that would be a small inexpensive maybe ten dollar sensor board They would talk over a wireless link back to you a beagle bone Hey, hi, I'm Kathy. I'm with beagleboard.org. Welcome. We're excited to be here at embedded world 2020 And today I'm here to talk to you about beagleboard.org. We're a completely open source hardware open source software Foundation we're a non-profit that supports the education of embedded Linux. We started with beagleboard You know, it's a 1 gigahertz Linux PC. It's based upon the AM Sitara from Texas Instruments and you know runs low power and we have you know Millions boards out there including the beagle bones. We've developed to get better access to the IO This is the beagle bone black as you can see the beagle bone black has Plenty of access to the IO. It's small. This one has ethernet You can do a lot of projects with communication moving control and then last year we introduced The pocket beagle pocket beagle is the same performance as beagle bone black but comes in this small mini tin mini mint tin size and I'm showing it here with our tech lab learner Cape where you can go around and learn all the different parts of the chip by utilizing the IO and so you can learn the PRU which is our programmable real-time unit by using the 7-segment LED You can learn the PWM pins by using the RGB and then also we have this nice add-on in the back here from microelectronica You can use many of their click boards to add Different sensors and actuators to learn different projects once you've done some learning like this Maybe you develop your own Cape like this community member developed this scroller Cape He is really into Christmas decoration and so his Desire is to do lots and lots of LED Display so he designed this to meet our Cape or add-on board Application for the pocket beagle lots of fun and you can make your own as well because everything we do is open all of our Designs, it's very easy once you've developed with Beagle board to get going. We've got really great Debbie and distribution of Linux that we have you download off of our website. There's libraries and today we are working with the New Beaglebone AI just introduced last year and we have a fabulous group of developers already working with the Beaglebone AI it is a Mechanically compatible with all of our Beagle boards. So you've got the same header Capability and it matches with all of our capes and then again, we've got ethernet we've got the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and We've got a fabulous chip on the inside of it that has the SOC from Texas Instruments the AM 5 7 That chip is this demo is running over here so this is our AI demo and it's using the The Beaglebone AI which utilizes the AM 5 7 2 9 as you can see it has a multiple of cores We use the embedded vision engines to do the compare on the TIDL machine learning library And also we are using the PR use to do the image capture So what you can see here in our demonstration is we're running a full Linux distro on the Beaglebone AI We are capturing the image the first image that you'll see is replacing What might be in a machine vision application is a good part That's the Beagle so the Beagle dog is the good part it places down in front of the camera and it will recognize the image just a simple image off the internet Runs through the millions of images on the TIDL library. It's a deep deep learning library from Texas Instruments and then it will come around The arm will pick up the device and put it into the good bin And then again when we put down the Fruit which we've chosen here a small berry you put down the fruit in front of it It again will determine that that is not a Beagle and so it will put it into the bad bin So we're also streaming the information here on the display. It's all running over ethernet and 100% supported by the Beaglebone AI. We don't need a connection to the cloud or any other Processes we are very excited to Support the open-source community. We've been longtime members 13 years with open-source Linux and Have a lot of really solid professional membership Our focus is on education embedded Linux education Professionals or students. I'm really proud to have education day here at embedded world 2020 And talk with the students about the Beagles. So when we take the Beagle The AI the new one which is right here. Yeah, the white one. Uh-huh. Yeah, where'd he go? He's over here He's over there. I'm a little repetitive. Yeah, so what's This this chip has AI capability Yes So this is the AM 5729 from Texas Instruments. It has the dual Cortex a 15 microprocessor It has the embedded vision engine also two DSPs for programmable real-time units a GPU It's got a graphics accelerator a lot of performance and capabilities. You do a full AI implementation and here you have some Some different promotions here. I mean you talking about the different solutions here at the abandoned world exactly exactly It's $25 it starts $25 you can get a pocket Beagle, which is a great learning platform Same performance 1 gigahertz Linux PC a lot of different projects on going with this everything from an IOT and application to perhaps even your IOT gateway or even a simple sensor sending things to the nodes The pocket Beagle is a great opportunity to not only learn embedded Linux Through the Linux foundation it is their learning platform, but also to implement any projects commercial or educational and In the beginning of the video we had this car right here behind So what is this project? Oh, this is a fabulous project This is actually a collaboration between the University in Texas Texas A&M University and NASA This will be a moon rover that is going to go and collect more rock samples from the moon what they've discovered is is that we need to get more rock samples and so they're utilizing our Beagle bone blue which is customized towards robotics applications and They've made their own unique Suspension system so that this will be able to Run over the moon rocks now They're also using it for education in the freshman year at Texas A&M University teams 3d print and build their robot and program their device and that way they're learning electrical and computer engineering right off the bat All right, and I guess this loss of other cool Projects out there plenty of cool projects. How many how many students working with the boards there are Hundreds of students thousands of students per year actually working with Beagle boards and projects University of California, San Diego works with them in their mechanical engineering department. We've got projects everywhere from India I was learning about a project today in Austria So globally we have people working with our projects in both industry and in education. So getting to Design robots for the moon. Maybe some robots for Mars all kinds of all kinds of fun. I I wake up Later this year. I wake up every day with a new project being Exciting for me later this year. We're going to have Portland State University launching a keepsat and they utilize the pocket vehicle for their project, but You need to be radiation proof when you go into space You need to have all these kind of like you think that will work in space So one of the good things is is that you know our devices robust industrial temperature and then most of the time They in encapsulate the things to help it go into space and they work with NASA for that opportunity So there's a lot going on with collaboration with NASA and education space beagles It's gonna be out there all right and lots of lots of lots of all the projects and people can find them on the social media Where you post all the quick things at bigelboard.org if you put in slash P you go straight to our project page We love to promote projects from our community. So please let us know when you're loading up a project on the website We have University students we have a student as young as nine years old who's done a project and of course professional developers as well


What's up, how are you guys today? I'm going to show you how I layer my clothes in the winter I will put everything here on my Amazon shop and as with everything I try to do it as Affordably as possible and now you guys know what I'm complaining about sweating my guts out in the summer or in my warehouse How many layers I was wearing because you know I work in the freezer You know for the meat business so a lot of times it's zero degrees in there and you got to know how to stay warm So I never knew this as a kid, but as I figured out the layering thing There's really no weather that you can't prepare yourself for as long as you have enough layers So we actually have six layers here. I'm wearing five right now, and you can even go more than this Starting with the basic t-shirt and underwear I like white because you know you could tell when it gets dirty, but nothing special there Second layer is our Wi-Fi shielding t-shirt and underwear Sometimes I'll wear two of these just depends on how I feel in the summer I will wear two of these because it's the only Wi-Fi protection I will have during the day So we have these available on Wi-Fi shielding calm as one of the upcoming layers I'm going to show you but you know with all the radiation in the environment emf cell phones, whatever I'm always wearing some protective clothing at least two layers and I like wearing The regular t-shirt and underwear under that because it keeps those kind of clean and you can just wear them again Then we have a thermal layer. I just bought these new. I was using another brand previously These aren't super warm, but it's still a layer Old-school people might know these as long johns. That's kind of what they still call them This is one of the things that's going to be on my Amazon shop as well as the the first t-shirt and underwear just another layer to keep things warm and Then our fourth layer is the full Wi-Fi shielding shirt and pants You know, I like double layering the shielding clothing Especially after you wash it a lot and like I think this and that are over like a year old right now So it loses a little bit of effectiveness. So when you wear two layers, it's completely effective And this is you know, this is pretty heavy-duty. You know, it's not a light It's not a light shirt. This is a little light, but you know, we already have Four layers on here. So now we're basically fully protected from head to toe In silver fabric from the Wi-Fi emf radiation and it's also adding another layer of warmth Then we have kind of first thing that can be used as an outer shell Which is a Hanes sweatshirt and sweatpants These are a bit heavier than everything else we've seen so far and the most affordable ones I found online. So Nice comfortable. It's you know, it's what I'm wearing now on the outside. I didn't put The extra layer on and then if it gets really cold or you're working and you're getting dirty I just bought these.  So if I'm just wearing this that's gonna get dirty I'm gonna have to wash that more And then if I'm really working and this is kind of waterproof too Which I like, you know, it doesn't absorb water as easily as the other materials, especially the shirt So this is you know, a sixth outer layer if it gets really really really cold Or as I said, I'm working and I'm outside most of the day But you know, if I'm inside and it's like 60 65 70 like I know that's still warm, but like I'll never be cold in this even if I don't eat or anything So this was probably the most expensive part of the Outfit from just a normal clothing perspective Obviously the Wi-Fi shielding clothing is expensive because it's made from silver But I think that this new hoodie was like 60 or 70 and so were the pants But you can also add additionally, you know, if it's like crazy crazy blizzard or you need more waterproofing You would put like a jacket on some type of parka on over it Which would be like a crazy seventh layer and then you could also Uh get some like Kind of like suspender like winter pants that can go over the pants that would completely waterproof But that would be crazy under special circumstances for the most part This is going to keep you really really warm regardless of the weather is And then the really important thing is to Just make sure you have a nice solid breakfast that has plenty of saturated fat in it.  Like I bought a few different wool thermal socks. I didn't really like any of them And then the gloves what you want to get is some wool hand liners and then closed fingered mittens That's going to be the warmest combination for your hands So the wool hand liners like have fingers on them probably like 15 20 bucks and then You can get some deer skin mittens that have closed fingers that'll keep your hands really really warm Those can be a bit more expensive around 40 or 50 dollars for your hands And outside of wearing like multiple layers of socks. Uh what I can actually show you is Um the boots that I have I've always bought these used at a discount. These are Sorrel These aren't actually the really warm ones the warm ones are called caribou. I think these might be Somewhere in between But they have like a really warm winter liner on the inside and I would wear these in the freezer and My feet would never get cold. These are like a lighter version of those but the the sorrel Caribou boots are what you want on your feet because regardless of what socks you're wearing those boots will keep you really warm I was watching that uh That that famous girls uh yukutia channel and they had these um those sorrel boots are called caribou as like a name for the boot but The people in that cold country where it gets to like like Siberia where it gets like negative seven They actually wear boots made from caribou fur, but I think those are like super expensive So I guess there's no need for extreme extreme arctic clothing where most people are living now But I'm sure that did exist if you wanted to spend a lot of money on it And then for the hat and the headgear, uh, you guys have seen me wear that funny russian hat I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head But you can also get like ear muffs you can get like pala clava that covers your whole face You can get a scarf it just depends on how cold it is and what you're doing If you need to really cover your whole face or not like doing crazy stuff with like ski masks and goggles It really really depends but Hopefully this gives you guys some ideas and helps you figure out how to stay warm in the colder weather and I actually like doing this when i'm sleeping because I can't really breathe if it's like Too warm in the room or if it's too humid. So I like leaving the window open And the colder weather which means like my room is super cold at night So i'm cold, but I can like breathe okay So I have to wear like a lot of layers when i'm sleeping But that'll be it guys everything will be on amazon.com slash shop slash frank to fauna and everything else will be on Wifish healing dot com Let me know if uh, you guys have any tips if there's anything you like Especially like from an affordable perspective on the socks and all that other type of stuff Thanks for joining. I'll see you guys soon You


Okay, so if we plug this into the Lorentz transformations, we get delta XB equals gamma LA. So the length Bob measures between these two events is gamma multiplied by the length Alice measured. But wait a moment. Gamma is greater than one. So this is saying that Bob will measure a distance bigger than what Alice measures. This is like some kind of length expansion formula rather than a length contraction formula. So somewhere along here in our line of reasoning, we've made a mistake. Can you spot what that is?


Thank you, thank you very much Fabio and thank you all welcome, welcome everybody to and thank you for joining us to celebrate together with us then the first anniversary of the FAO multi-lingual be learning academy. We are extremely pleased today to have with us highly esteemed experts from our some of our partners of excellence that I will be introducing later on. And without further ado, I would like to be to share with you a little bit our innovative learning methodologies for for sustainability. As you know, sustainability is humanity's greatest challenge and to be able to face all the various global challenges we we need competent professionals which are able to to take the right decision, choose the appropriate programs and strategies, but also they need to be they need to have a pool of multidisciplinary competencies. And these multidisciplinary competencies need to be also complemented by also a very strong interpersonal skills the ability to negotiate to to listen actively to communicate etc. And this is exactly the objective of the FAO E Learning Academy. It is to transfer skills and competencies we we I really would like to focus on this word of competencies because we really do a very thorough analysis of the professional profiles and the competencies that are required for sustainability and we design our capacity development interventions and our learning courses based on these professional profiles and on the specific competencies. I also have to mention that the FAO E Learning Academy is really the result of of a collaborative effort involving a number of partners over 200 partners worldwide. And it is multilingual which we really try to provide access to anyone anytime anywhere in the world really we are very much focused and aligned with all of the SDGs and in particular SDG for which is universal education. Everything is provided for free as a global public good. And so far we have reached over 700,000 learners throughout the world. We we cover a number of thematic areas. So for example, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture sustainable forestry, of course climate change climate smart agriculture, sustainable food systems and nutrition responsible investments in agriculture markets, but also food safety food losses food waste, etc. And also crop improvement. So the thematic areas are very diverse and they the common thread to all of them remains sustainability. I also want to mention very briefly that we work with different types of organizations so we work with the UN and development agencies. For example, these are some of them are mentioned there. We work with the universities and academic institutions, and we have created a number of masters and postgraduate degrees with a number of universities. We also work with NGOs, CSOs, and we are noticing a great interest from private sector in our courses, but also mainly on compliance and sustainability, compliance to the SDGs and sustainability in general. What I wanted to mention is that we work with these different partners in on different aspects. So we work sometimes on the design on the development on the language adaptations on the dissemination promotion, etc. But it is really a collaborative approach. And at the moment, the different UN agencies, but also big regional organizations like Echoa, CILS, Commessa, they are using our courses also for their own capacity development activity. Also, we have a very close relationship with the European Commission, and they also benefit from our courses in their learning platform. So this is just to give you an idea of the types of organizations we work with. We also contribute to many United Nations initiatives and networks. These are some of them. And we are also very pleased to have with us also a representative from the United Nations scaling up nutrition movement who will be also contributing later on. What I wanted to mention also is that innovation is crucial in transforming mindsets for sustainability, because the new leaders, the new change makers that we want to see need to have a new approach, a multidisciplinary one. And we in the FAE Learning Academy try to adopt, to use innovation in all different components. So we try to innovate in the design of our courses of our interventions. We innovate in the content we provide, and we try to innovate in the pedagogical models and learning solutions that we offer. What do we mean by that? We mean that for the design, we adopt a collaborative multi-stakeholder learning needs assessment, which means we work together with a number of partners worldwide and also representatives from the target audience groups to define the specific learning needs of the target audience. So it's a co-design together with the target audiences to make sure that we really target what we are providing. We also use a methodology, which is called a topic task analysis, and we really are very much job oriented competency oriented and very much aligned with the professional profiles that we want to see in the transformation towards sustainability. So this part of co-designing is really focused on better understanding the audience. What are the changes that we want to see? What are the job tasks that they need to perform better? What are the new professional profiles that we want to see for sustainability? So these are the questions we ask ourselves. And usually these collaborative multi-stakeholder learning needs assessments were done, of course, in a face-to-face setting. But with COVID, we are now using other methods to do it. So we use live interviews, online questionnaires, synchronous live events to try to still have a collaborative design and a collaborative development of the content. I also wanted to mention that the content that we try to do in the design, we try to also always have together in the design academic institutions, professors, non-state actors. This idea of multi-stakeholder is very important in order to have an integrated approach in what we produce. So then we also have, we use innovation in the content because we try to always use cutting edge evidence-based knowledge. We use innovative methodologies and practices. For example, for some of the SDG indicator courses that we have developed, the methodologies didn't even exist. And some of the indicators were not qualitative or quantitative, but were completely linked to other things like legal frameworks, etc. So really the innovation also in the methodologies that we propose in the content of the courses. We are very much competency-based, as I mentioned. The content is very much aligned with the professional profiles, aligned with the SDGs, and always gender and culturally sensitive. So this is also another characteristic. Regarding our pedagogical models and our learning solutions, of course, there also we try to bring innovation as much as possible. We are always following all the adult learning theories. And we try to integrate in our courses a number of methodologies and learning strategies. So for example, we use case-based scenarios, we use simulations, storytelling, demonstration practice. We also serious learning games. We also often add pedagogical agents, agents and avatars that follow you in your learning experience. We are now using also micro-learning. And we also try to use cutting-edge technology, authoring tools and software. So this is also part of the innovation that we try to bring. So I also wanted to mention that I believe, I mean, we all believe that the more you diversify your methods and your pedagogical models, the greater the impact, let's say. So we, in addition to the methodologies in the design of our interventions, we try to diversify also the delivery methods that we use. Because each individual has different needs, have different preferences, and therefore by diversifying your pedagogical model, you are likely to have a greater impact. So in addition to the over 350 multilingual e-learning courses, we also have university degrees that I mentioned before. Many universities are integrating the courses as part of masters and postgraduate degrees. We also organize international online technical webinars. Some of the courses are also mobile responsive for target audiences in remote areas. We also organize MOOCs, which are massive open online courses. We used to do a lot of face-to-face training interventions. We also do blended learning programs. So the idea that I wanted to convey is that we try to diversify the delivery methods. I also wanted to mention that we have just published the guide on e-learning methodologies and good practices, which documents over 15 years of experience. And we are trying to share our experience, the lessons learned, things to avoid, tips, etc. And the guide is available at the links here. You will also have this presentation available on the FAO e-learning website. And we will actually do a specific launch event on the 15th of July. And this is the link for the registration. I don't want to go too much into the details, but the guide really covers all the different aspects to consider when you are envisaging to create and to start with e-learning in an institution. Of course, what are the benefits, how do you include mobile learning, social interaction in your activities, etc., and after how do you design them, and what are the different methodologies and strategies that you can use. And of course, how do you can also, and a last part on collaborative learning, the advantages, etc. So this is a little bit what will be discussed in detail in the launch event 15th of July. To continue with innovative methodologies, we have been with Future Food Institute, that I have to mention. We are actually extremely pleased to have with us today Sarah Roversi, who is the founder of Future Food Institute, and who will be giving you a bit more details on what I will be introducing now. We have conducted with Future Food Institute, 224-hour global marathons for sustainability. The idea was to try to involve different stakeholders with different perspectives, sharing not only the challenges they have towards sustainability, but also their experience and good practice related to sustainability. We managed to have over 150,000 viewers in the 24 hours, with over 30 main work sessions in English, French, Spanish, and Italian, over 160 experts worldwide who have contributed. But from different, basically professional profiles. So we had decision makers, we had students, professors, we had also indigenous populations, representatives who shared with us their concern, etc. So we are also documenting these events and the publications are for the year 2020 is available and for this we are still finalizing this one. And there will of course be available through the FAE Learning Academy. With Future Food Institute we are also, we have created a very innovative capacity development and learning type of event, which is climate shapers boot camps to try to really convert all the technical knowledge, technical expertise into something that everybody understands. In order to be able to contribute and to become a climate shaper, a change maker let's say. And so these are really, we're trying to develop a key figure, a key professional profile in the circular and sustainable food value chain. And this is really the objective is to provide them with competencies that they need to face the challenges we are all facing. So the next one that we have organized with the Future Food Institute, it will be in Marectimo in Sicily from 13 to 19 July. We're organizing another one in September. And these are really unbelievable learning opportunities because we also organize study tours, participants have the possibilities to go and to visit, and to look at new innovative and good practices for sustainability. It's very much based on experiential learning, and it has been extremely successful actually we won a world prize for that I will leave, I will let Sarah talk to you about this later. We also organize international technical webinars. So this is done on a regular basis, and we are doing these, we are organizing these webinars together with Future Food Institute with the UN Sun movement with a greenium and with the United Nations. SCAP, which is the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific. These webinars, these series of webinars have found to be have been extremely successful what we tried to do is after the webinars in order to valorize them and to make them available for anyone in the world. We provide the recordings, all the materials but also the statistics that we gather during the webinars and this is all available in the webinar section of the FAE Learning Academy. And then I would like to conclude with our certification system we have started so we have started with the digital batch certification system. This is a system which that is transparent impartial evidence based, and it is really a system that allows to provide competences, the competences acquired, and it allows to better match employment opportunities with the pool of competences that professionals have to offer. It is really a very versatile system where you could just accumulate the different badges that certify different competences that you have. So you can build your professional profiles with a pool of competences that are certified with these badges, and these badges can follow you in your LinkedIn in your e-portfolio in your CV. It is really an accreditation system, which is quite versatile. Just to let you know the digital badge system is not just a graphical element so first of all to earn it you need to pass a final scenario based competency based test. So the questions and the questionnaires at the end, the test at the end is competency based so it's not about remembering knowledge or the principles that were in the course but it's really about applying the knowledge and showing and demonstrating that you have acquired the competences. And behind the graphical element you have all the metadata related to the competences acquired, the date, the name of the course, your name, etc. These are, this is just to show you some examples of some of the badges we have developed for our courses and these are some of the badges for the SDG indicator courses that we have. And here in the FAE Learning Academy you can find all our different publications if you are interested in understanding better how we work. I have concluded and now I am extremely pleased to start giving the floor to our guests, which are, that we are extremely pleased to have. So, we will start with Sara Roversi, who is the founder of Future Food Institute. Sara, can you please share with everyone the different activities that we have been doing in the past months together. And we are really very pleased to have you with us today. Sara, the floor is yours, you have 10 minutes. Thank you. Thank you so much, Christina. It's always a great pleasure to be with you. Also because in the last years, I think we have been achieving very important goals and there's still a lot to do together. So I'm going to share my screen if I can. Yes, please. Okay. I'm allowed now. Very good. So, I want to share with you a little bit what we have been doing together with Christina Petracchi and the incredible team of the FAE Learning Academy. And I want to share with you the journey starting from the beginning, because the first time I entered in FAE and I get in touch with the FAE Learning Academy world. I was frustrated and very impressed. Why? Because I found out that there were a lot of knowledge, a lot of things that were already available, but not spread enough. And I was thinking, makes no sense to reinvent the wheel, makes no sense to start again to create new application to train farmers to train people working in the food and training youth and young activists that want to be part of the change if there's already a lot of knowledge and a lot of materials that are available are already multiple languages are accessible, easy to understand and easy to spread. And from where we started, of course, we are very much exposed to new dimensions and environment of education that are pretty unconventional. We are running our master's program inside the universities. We are running programs with the Ministry of Education, bringing food and climate literacy inside school programs. We work with thousands and thousands of students everywhere in the world, but we think that bringing innovation in the educational system now is crucial. Together with Cristina, we started this journey and we were focused on three main projects. The first one are our boot camps that we created to train food and climate shapers. The second one, hackathons. How we can teach to use hackathons as a methodology to grow together, to break the silo, to start to work between scientists, start-upers, the academic system, but also industries, farmers, giving the voice and giving the opportunity to every member of the food system to participate and be part of the change.  But let's start from here. We started signing an agreement with the former DG of FAO and from there actually started a long journey that was really concrete and really practical. The first thing that we did was to design a boot camp. A boot camp that could mix the digital competence and the digital tool that already are available on FAO learning platform and experiences. And of course with the pandemic, we were forced also to develop a just online program that is 100% online. So reshaping the entire schedule of our boot camps. So now as you see, we have one digital program that is a four week program and we are very, very proud because we just won a very important award. So we won this award for studies abroad and we were in the nomination for the most innovative program because we were really trying to give to those participants the opportunity to get in touch. Of course, but also to get engaged with the very practical things experiencing on the ground with their communities going and visiting their farmers or the innovators, the startups and so on, but to share that with the global network. Because in every classroom, we have together like guys that comes from more than 30 countries all together. And so you have maybe students coming from Italy that is connected with someone that is in Iran or in Japan or in southern, southern easier or whatever, and they are sharing knowledge live. We were organizing dinners together, we were organizing exploration together digitally, but live, not just behind the screen but where the screen is basically a touch point. And so was pretty amazing because we were able to create empathy to create engagement that people were there in presence in presence with their heart and say with their passion. So this was the digital platform that we have been creating under this year of pandemic. And then we started also the program in presence. The program in presence and the program in say digitally are both designed trying to keep always the same elements, the same elements that are say the values that we consider like something unique. So we want our programs to be diverse. And Christina always underlined the importance of bringing diversity in all the things we do. Diversity is for us the crucial element. And we try to have diversity not only from the cultural perspective, but diversity in skills, diversity in ages, because we know how crucial is the role of youth for this big ecological transition that we are facing, but also we know that this is one of the most critical thing. We need to learn about how we can work together between different generations, diversity, experiences, as you see here, practical experiences, experiments where we bring scientists and chefs and farmers together. And our students have the technical skills on one side, the values on another side, and also the experience is part entirely part of the game. But then I want to switch on our tracks. Our programs are focused on four main areas that we think needs to be regenerated. Our programs are divided in four tracks. The first one is studying innovative solutions to design what's going to be the role of food in the cities of the future. Talking about climate smart cities tackling the topic of food loss and waste and every innovative solution we can find to tackle this issue. Then we are talking about climate smart oceans and all the issues related to ocean sustainable fishery plastics and all the issues that communities living in this area are facing. Then we talk about the climates of our farming and the issues we face talking about resources.  What we have been doing has been pretty intense in the previous years, but now of course also in 2021 we have a full program. We have a new boot camp that is going to start on Friday and we are going to kick off our boot camp on Friday afternoon at 4pm from the FAO Green Garden that FAO started and kicked off for the G20 summit. So we will be in Rome broadcasting from FAO Green Garden. And we are going to host also finally some boot camps in presence. I'm going to skip the videos, but we're going to share with you all the links. And I want to just focus on which are the main topic that we try to tackle and to foster, because when we teach those new skills to our students, we are very focused on fostering cognitive flexibility, the cooperative approach. And this is something that we find also in hackathons, the circular vision, the circular mindset. And then of course all our experiences are very much transdisciplinary and we try to foster as much as we can creativity, emotional intelligence, system design and the systemic thinking and of course also design methodologies. And then we developed also our own methodology that we call prosperity thinking and it's something that we have been developing exactly together with FAO. Life experiences are crucial for all our programs and also, of course we find those issues also when we talk about hackathons. This is another thing that we did before working with FAO, we have been already organizing hackathons in many different parts of the world, more than 80 hackathons organized in the last eight years. And we found out that hackathon is not just a fun way to get engaged with very smart guys, but we found out that hackathons are a learning tool.  And so we started organizing hackathons. We organized hackathons standalone like the hack for SDGs, but also in every bootcamp the final part is an hackathon. So our learning experiences always both digital and in presence ends with an hackathons working together and fighting a challenger and find a solution. And last but not least, let's talk about the marathon. Christina has been mentioning the marathon before. And let's say the idea of the marathon came up at the beginning of the pandemic. I have been very lucky in my past because I had the chance to work for three Olympic Games. And when I was working for the Olympic Games, I was working for the Olympic torch relay. It's a pretty magical thing that happened during the Olympics, because it's exactly when the message, the Olympic message, the Olympic mission, the Pierre de Coubertin idea of the Olympics, the fair play, the connection between population and all the good principles behind that are spread in the country that is hosting the Olympics. And so when the pandemic started, for people like us that are every single day exposed to the world, building bridges around the world was pretty frustrating. And so we called Christina saying we need to connect the word we need to connect the word and this year we have the chance to connect it digitally. And like that came up the idea of creating our global marathon. We did it last year for the first 24-hour marathon on Earth Day, April 22. And this year we doubled the experience because this year we were very proud to be one of the official events inside the Earth Day platform. So on the big Earth Day celebration organized by the Earth Day Network from Washington DC, our program together with the summit organized by Biden, President Biden, there were also our digital marathon. And our marathon this year was involving almost 30 ministers from all around the world, indigenous communities, youth, kids, families, farmers, chefs, people very diverse that were really carrying the flame all around the world, from east to west, crossing the Mediterranean area and jumping and going in Antarctica and then touching all the different points in the world. And every single voice was sharing the same mission, the same passion. And the interesting thing is that this year we were also calling the network of the climate shapers telling them please share your climate action. Saying that you are sustainable is not enough. You must share which is your action, show what you're doing, show what the impact you're making. And this is pretty amazing because the community is growing and we can finally touch what's the impact this program is every day doing. So Christina will share with you all the information and I want to just leave you with the last thing we did because yesterday Christina was with us in Catania, I'm now in Catania, where he's taking place the G20 of education. And of course we decided to do also a food for the G20 edition, taking the opportunity of the G20 again to connect the dots and spread the voice and involve our community of food and climate shapers. Because food is touching every angle of our society. We can talk about food, talking about labor, talking about education, talking about finance, talking about all the different aspects of our society. And we did it starting from education yesterday at the G20 of education. And this is going to be a journey involving our community, our students, our fellows. And we're going to go all around the G20 ministerial meetings ending in October. So please get engaged, write to Christina if you want to be part of the game, if you want to be part of the conversation and if you or your community and your fellows want to be involved inside our boot camps and our programs. Thank you so much Christina. And thank you so much to all your team for the incredible work you're doing. Thank you. Thank you very much Sarah for this excellent presentation. I am extremely pleased to have also with us today, Mr Fernando Cristóbal Gonzalez who is the head of section learning development and European Commission director general for international partnership. And before giving the floor to Fernando, I just wanted to express our gratitude for the EU, because the EU has been supporting the FAE Learning Academy since 2005. And I have to say that the success that we have, we have enabled to have all this success. Also, thanks to the support, the contribution, the EU was part of the design of many of our courses, they were part of the content development of many of our courses. They were also involved in the dissemination in the language adaptation. So, really, this is a great expression of gratitude that I needed to mention Fernando, the floor is yours. You have 10 minutes. Thank you. Thank you Christina. Well, you have already summarized somehow the content of my presentation, which is about the collaboration that we have had with you for a few years now. Well, first I would like to just start by clarifying something that perhaps for some participants might be a little bit unclear. We are the director general for international partnerships in the European Commission. Before that, we were the, perhaps it is better known for most people, the director general for development cooperation. We changed the name and we got reorganized in January this year. So now we are called the director general for international partnerships. So, we started, as you said, Christina, this fruitful collaboration quite a few years ago, I would start by 2009, when we start working together in the development of learning courses to around knowledge sharing and food security. The idea behind this development is to provide those courses for the staff. And with the idea of, of enhanced cooperation between our organization and to harmonize the ways of working and also to develop a better competence development inside the organization. That was, I would say the beginning of this collaboration. I have to say that at that moment, and I would say until now, the access of this collaboration has been that far provided. Most of the times, the expertise they know how for the development of contents in the in the in the courses and the European Commission provided financing for for the development of those of those learning resources. Then the, I mean the areas for these courses where food security, nutrition and agriculture, these were the main areas of contents. In, in fact, in 2017, the FAO and an EC signed a collaboration agreement agreement that formalized this collaboration in the sharing of learning resources and courses. As I said before, basically, the contribution from the European Commission was in the funding of the development of this of this learning content. The idea behind these discourses was, as I said before, basically to develop enhanced competence inside the organization and also to share ways of working between organization and share best practices. Then the next step and the step that is already part of today that the celebration that put that has joined us together today is the creation of the of the you learning academies of the of the learning academies in the in the FAO that today makes one year in the European Commission in our case in international partnerships. The idea behind the creation of this academies is to go one step beyond the initial objective of developing content for the for enhancing capacities inside the organization the idea was to provide access to these to this learning content to a wider community so that we can create with in our case with other member states, but also with other partner partners such as international organizations as you civil society, partner countries and in general the public interested in development cooperation sustainable development goals etc etc. The goal here are basically to harmonize developing cooperation actions through broad dissemination of our approaches and also to increase visibility of the activities of our organizations and our actions and the ways of operating that we that we that we use then in this slide is what the, the, I mean, some of it is already been been explained by Christina before are the main, I would say aspects, or the main elements of both academies, which are that they are accessible anytime anywhere that's one of the main criteria, anyone can join the learning contents, wherever they are whenever they want and follow the learning contents that are available. So they are open for everyone, they are mostly in world, and they are of course free of charge, they are those are the main I would say, elements that characterize the, the, the, the international panacea academy as well as the file learning academy. Then I just to be very briefly just to finalize. Of course, this collaboration between the learning activities is part of a bigger collaboration between the European Union and the FAO. This partnership is, is, has been ongoing for many years now and it's growing up, just to give you an idea, a concrete idea of how this collaboration is, is, is now functioning. I can tell you that in the period from 2018 to 2020, the European Union contributed with approximately 635 million US dollars to more than 250 projects around the world. Launched by, by the FAO. All of those projects of course are centered around the notions inside the sustainable development goals. So this is I would say in a nutshell, the image of the collaboration that exists nowadays between the European Commission and FAO in the area of sharing and developing together learning resources for the whole world community via this new internet learning academy. So that is, I would say, all from my side. Thank you very much. Thank you again for having invited inviting us to your, to your anniversary celebration. Thank you. Thank you, Fernando. And now I would like to give the floor to Tom, Tom Wembeke, who's the chief of learning and innovation in the International Training Center of the International Labour Organization. We have been working with ITC ILO for many, many years. We have conducted a number of activities together. And I will let Tom give you more information about that. Tom, the floor is yours. You have 10 minutes. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Christina. And thank you very much for inviting us to this digital celebration. I hope that one day we also can celebrate it face to face, but we have to work with the means that we have. And I wanted to give a short contribution to this celebration because this, I would call the partnership and the many partnerships that we have been hearing now. For me, as being the chief learning innovation officer of the International Training Center of the ILO, which is also a specialized UN agency, are for me really partnerships for sustainable learning solutions. And we are really grateful that in the past years, and we're talking, I will always say the past decade, I've met Christina at eLearningAfrica in 2009, time flies too fast, I would say. And also had the pleasure to meet a lot of the colleagues that are behind this FAO Learning Academy, Andrew, Mehmed, Kiarabiatric, all the different people. I cannot name them all, but also would like to pay gratitude towards them. It's also not just a personal contribution, but also an institutional responsibility. I mean, we're all working together not for the sake of partnership, it's a clear goal, it's an SDG 17. And I think what I like very much about this kind of interagency, let's say, collaboration and partnership that it goes beyond just the interagency it goes much further. And I think what I learned from the FAO Learning Academy is this kind of network approach, this kind of network approach. If I already see 200 partnerships, that's something that you really can celebrate. And these networks partnerships are also, you know, very concrete and tangible. We've met at big international conferences from online. Africa and Berlin to e-learning Africa in different, let's say, countries where we interactively proactively actually exchange best practices in the field of e-learning as part of capacity development. That's really what our synergies are all about. So I was thinking, how can I contribute to this celebration because there's no, I mean, I should bring here first of all the virtual cake or something like that to really celebrate. I think we celebrated with three different words. And I think these words are for me, the key takeaways or the lessons learned from this collaboration with Christina and her team on that. And the three words are very simple. One is related to scalability, but maybe a little bit more towards impact also. I mean, I'm already cheating here, that's two words. One word was also mentioned by Sara quite a lot and also by Christina would be around innovation. And then my last word would be around inclusion and interesting enough. I've seen a lot of remarks in the Q&A on this element as well. So let me use my remaining seven minutes to illustrate what I do I mean, because as I said, FAO and also the ITC ILO as part of being a specialized UN agency, we have extremely large mandates, whether that's, you know, striving for a world without hunger or striving towards the world for decent work and social justice. The mandate is extremely big. And what I've learned from the FAO eLearning Academy, I think it's one of the first initiatives within the UN that also can show numbers. I've read the numbers you are on visitor, or not on visitor, on learner, 700,000, that's almost a million users. And I think when we arrive in the area now specifically post-COVID digital transformation, I think these scalability numbers really we need to take higher. So I would say for the future 2.0 project, how can we move from one million towards one billion? That would be just let's say a question, a moonshot question for the future and the further expansion of the FAO eLearning Academy. As I've said, I've been following the academy and the initiatives around it for the last decades on it and now the first official celebration of the one year as it is right now. There's a big history behind it. So scalability, can we really move up scale up because our, as I said, our mandates are much bigger than the current numbers that we have and you are really spearheading in this particular area. So let's move towards the second one on innovation. Two years ago, I joined writes before, no, two years ago in Madrid when the secretary general was already, and he is here talking, I'm just going to stop his talking, but he was launching the thing that we knew we need to do different things and we need to do things differently. At that time already long before covered. He was basically saying we're going to abolish all non essential traffic and we even didn't know about the pandemic it was just looking at how can we use technology in the most optimal way to basically exchange knowledge that was already a request out there. And when I see innovation in the FAE learning Academy. What I like about it is not just about the technological rings and bells the technology has always been very straightforward, simple, accessible and actually also applying very universal principles of design. One of the things that I always mentioned and Christina mentioned already the elearning design guide that you now see the 2.0 version. I think many years ago there was already a first edition and the strength I think of FAE learning Academy that it has a very sound methodological basis that can be applied anywhere else in whatever capacity development project you're busy with so this is something that we really remember is so innovation not just because of the technological mantra innovation not just because everybody needs to be innovative nowadays it's not innovative whitewashing really innovation because there's really a good strategy and design behind it. So there I would see in the new innovative methodologies that you're testing out from micro learning towards digital credentials towards methodological new setting up events like hackathons and so on. What are the future things that we can do differently because we are going to be forced to do things differently in the new normal and that's, let's say the second keyword that I would like to emphasize. I'm also looking at the time carefully moving already towards my last, let's say keyword that I find extremely important. By the way I was mentioning to the elearning methodologies for us, it should be in every virtual or physical library across the globe if you want to learn something about elearning from scratch to finish this is really a reference point and also congratulations to everyone who's behind this and I'm also looking forward to the launch of this book in a few weeks from now. Let me to the last one, and this is the innovation as it goes hand in hand with inclusion. I've read here from the different participants from Natalia Gutierrez from Jennifer that is asking how do we have access for disabled person how do we have access for people in rural communities. How do we have access for people without the necessary digital literacy skills I think within a post, let's say pandemic perspective where the divides are even accelerating we probably in the field that we are working right now we have to put digital inclusion as a kind of a top priority, but digital inclusion and not just referring to you know having access or having infrastructure or having connectivity other it goes way beyond. It's a much, much larger digital ecosystem which captures some of the elements that already were named from digital skills to digital literacy towards accessible service to accessible content. It's an entire ecosystem and therefore I would like to invite and I'm very happy already that you know the with the birth of the FAO learning that all of these digital inclusion principles are already integrated into the design of it. I think we need to go further and do that together. That's why I also would like to invite and the FAO e learning Academy will be present there in our digital inclusion summit which is going to happen on the seventh and the eighth of July where FAO for us is actually featuring as a best and good practice where we can learn from, but as I said, digital inclusion as my last, let's say key contribution to the celebration together with innovation together with scalability and impact for a better world. And that's what I would like to contribute to this short, let's say, celebration with a virtual cake and a big thank you to the Christina and her team for doing this over to you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Tom. Thank you for the very nice three keywords. And I would like now to give the floor to Deborah de Dio, who is a representative of the UN scaling up a nutrition movement with whom we have been collaborating for a number of webinars and also other activities. We actually were honored to have with us, get that Berberg, who is the, the UN under secretary general and also the coordinator of the sun movement who participated in our 24 hour global marathon. So Deborah, the floor is yours. You have five minutes. Thank you for being with us. Thank you Christina. And first of all, let me say it's really exciting to see over 150 participants joining today and of course such a panelist of really, really fantastic speakers. I just want to share briefly our experience. First of all, I'm really pleased to be speaking today to be invited to be speak on behalf of some the scaling up nutrition movement. And I wish to congratulate the FAO colleagues and the FAE learning Academy colleagues for this anniversary hoping that it will be of course the first anniversary of many more to come. From the sun movement perspective the sun movement is killing our nutrition movement brings together now 64 countries and for Indian states in finding solution to fight all forms of my nutrition through a multi sectoral and multi stakeholders approach. The reason why we have we're very excited to be part of this initiative of the FAE learning Academy, and we approached actually FAO last year is the reason why we wanted to become members is because first of all, I will say the positive energy of Christina and her team is really contagious. We were immediately met with you know, energy and really positive attitude and professionalism. The reason also why we wanted to join the efforts of the FAE learning Academy is because we recognize the strengths and obviously the successes that you have managed to put together in such a short time. I mean we heard before about know 1000 hundreds of members official members and thousands of users and of course you know a huge variety of learning courses that are offered in different languages which I think for for us at the scaling up nutrition movement, bringing together 64 countries with from different regions and different linguistic background is really important that courses are offered not only on topics that are of course relevant to my nutrition but that are also offered in different languages that people feel comfortable to work and to use. The range of topics and the availability of courses I think is really something particularly appreciated by in country colleagues. I've spoken to many Sun movement colleagues at country level from Asia to Africa to Latin America. And they're all really really appreciative of how many courses are available on nutrition for systems but also other issues that affect nutrition, climate change, of course, agriculture, etc. And I'm also pleased to say that as Christina already mentioned in the last 12 months we have had many many colleagues joining as listeners in a number of events and webinars but also as speakers. And of course Gerdav Berberg are some movement coordinator and assistant secretary general but also many colleagues from countries, we've had colleagues from academic institutions, bringing their experience with colleagues from government also sharing their views and their perspective so going forward, I think the hope for the scaling up nutrition movement is that we continue the successful collaboration. There's even more a stronger collaboration that we can bring even more colleagues from countries to share their experience with others, because in the end, they are the ones who really tackle issues every day. There are also there would be more courses. The scaling up nutrition movement has launched its some 3.0 strategy from 2021 to 2025 knowledge management learning lessons experience sharing is critical for us. In the four or five years to come, we will be investing more resources from a financial, technical and human point of view to make sure that we connect with institutions and partnership platform such as the FAE Learning Academy to make courses online to be learning remote as well as in person when it allows available to the thousands of members of the scaling up nutrition movement in country so we hope to continue to collaborate. We hope that there will be courses particularly that address financial financing for nutrition, which is something that everyone I think as to you know challenges with around food systems, building on the food system summit that is happening this year, nutrition more courses, nutrition, building on of course on the nutrition for growth summit that is happening this year and and we can think about more with you know with with our different experiences we can bring so more. I wish to thank you all for the opportunity, not only to speak today to really collaborate over the past, I will say almost 12 months time really flies, and I look forward to continuing to contribute on behalf of sun and the many countries of the movement and the many stakeholders and networks in the movement with Christina and your team, and to make sure that you know we can tackle really some issues, particularly around nutrition and thank you all. And Christine again, thank you for your energy and Fabio also for organizing this really appreciate it. Thank you very much Deborah and we will always be very excited to collaborate with the sun movement thank you. Okay, and now our last speaker, Mr. Lillian Pusch with the Greenium Alliance, we have been conducting a number of international technical webinars with the Greenium and we're working also on a MOOC on nutrition together, I will leave Lillian give you more information about that Lillian the floor is yours you have 10 minutes thank you. Hi, thank you very much.  The screen is on. It's okay. No, not yet. Okay, now. No, no. Departure and reparture. Screen. Voila. Voila. Perfect. It's okay now. No. Parameter of display. Parameter of display. I don't know what to do. No, at the side. I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Good afternoon, everybody. And only first to thank the organizer for inviting me, in particular Christina and her team and Fabio. And it's a real pleasure to celebrate with you this anniversary of the FAE learning Academy. And as I saw before, I will try to respect my five minutes slot. And briefly, I would like to advertise and to give you an overview of our organization, agreement, the French Alliance of higher education and research for agriculture, food, environment and global health. It encompasses the competencies and resources of 11 higher education institutes, including veterinary school, agriculture and agri-food engineering schools, and two research institutes in RAE and Syrah. We gather around 8,000 students and more than 5,000 researchers and professor research. Our objectives rely on the provision of the highest quality of expertise, training and research in agro biosciences. Our mission is to contribute to the resolution of complex challenges in agriculture via a coordinated approach between higher education and research. And as such, to address even more complex challenges like climate change, the scarcity of natural resources, food insecurity and nutrition, and what we call the one health, global health of the human animal environmental interventions. Our learning proposal consists in a multi-purpose and fit for purpose training, compiled on AgriNU, our digital university accessible via our web portal agriNU.fr. We propose a wide range of free learning products from course modules to MOOCs, webinars or e-books. In some cases, we also propose paid services when a mentorship or a competent certification is needed. Some courses are already available in English and others are being planned. We are currently redesigning our website to ease access and use for our audience, which is mainly compounded of students and professionals. The FAO agreement signed in February 2018 aims at facilitating access to scientific, technical and vocational training for all students and learners who don't have the opportunity to learn in traditional face-to-face education system for a reason of distance or cost, for example. It also aims at participating in capacity building to support the development of sustainable agriculture in order to improve food security. This agreement is mainly implemented by AgriNU and the FAO Illinois Academy. To this end, we jointly organize events like technical webinar. Here, for example, the webinar on soil protection and land management we organized last year. Next fall, we will organize a MOOC on nutrition and food system co-designed by FAO and AgriNU experts. Here you have the detail of this MOOC. As said before, our four-year agreement was signed in 2018 and we will initiate soon discussion for its renewal. For us, this partnership is obviously a cornerstone of our missions. Indeed, we share with FAO and speak specifically with FAO Illinois Academy our core goals, our core values and our commitments. As such, we consider that we must have a shared future together. To conclude, I hope the time is okay. I would like to thank you for your attention and once more, happy anniversary to FAO Illinois Academy. Thank you. Thank you very much, Lillian, and yes, in fact, our collaboration with AgriNU has been extremely successful and we look forward to the MOOC. So, we have come to the end of our anniversary and I have a long list of thank yous to do, but before that I just wanted to mention something. I saw some of the questions of the participants and they were related to competencies and I wanted to provide a bit more information on these competencies that I was mentioning. So the first thing I also mentioned is that we are very much aligned with the professional profiles that we are targeting with very specific competencies and the competencies are completely different based on the thematic area that is covered in the course. It is obvious that if we have a course on climate smart agriculture, it is a very different target audience than a course that deals with formulating nutrition sensitive policies and it has a completely different target audience and different competencies. If our target audience is, for example, forestry, if we are dealing with forestry experts who have to conduct a national forestry survey, for example, or if we're talking about legislating for small scale fisheries, the audiences are different. The competencies required are very different. The common thread is always sustainability and the methodology that we follow to target these competencies is always the same. Who is our target audience group? What is our overall objective for the for the course? What is the overall objective and who is the target audience? What are their roles and responsibilities? What are their job tasks? And then, thanks to this analysis, based on the job tasks that they have to perform and on their professional profiles, what are the skills and competencies that we need to focus on for them to better perform their job tasks. This is exactly the methodology that we follow for all the courses, but the thematic areas are completely diverse and the competencies, of course, are completely different and they are based on the thematic area that is covered. And I just wanted to ask two seconds, Fabio, maybe to show the last slide. I don't know if it's possible to share the last slide. Thank you very much. So this is just, we are now, we have arrived to the conclusion and I have a list, a long list of thank yous to do, but before I just wanted to invite you to the next international webinar that we are organizing with the, with future food with the UNS Cup on Forestry and also to invite you all to the launch of the guide on the FAE Learning Academy methodologies and good practices which is going to take place 15 July. So, first, let me thank, let me thank and express my appreciation to all our guests who have been really fantastic. Thank you very much. I would like to also thank my, my, our deputy director general and our director Marcelo Viraleal, who has always been both of them extremely supportive. A special, special thanks to Andrew Nado, with whom I have been working for 20 years, and which guidance is always extremely precious. So, Andrew Nado, my team, my team, I would like to thank each single one of them really extremely talented professionals. Here I have to mention also Beatrice Ghirardini, our senior instructional designer, who is also the author, the main author of the guide. This is really the result of over 15 years of experience of the academy, but she managed to bring it all together. And I would like also to thank who is behind the scenes, so Fabio Piccinich, Fili Prevo, who is always with us supporting us for my Greenium, Sara Ferrante, and, and all the others. And special thanks to you, the participants. Thank you very much for being with us and celebrating with us this event. Thank you. Bye bye to all.


We are going to explain and explore introduction of self-concept, so when we are to talk about the self-concept, its orientation, its detail introduction, we will see about the development of self-concept in the world. And it is important, more important that individual is indulged in different activities and in the sense of self-development, that it is so valuable, it has so many skills, it has so many skills, it is so important that individual is involved in the activity, it creates the opportunity to believe in it and it is comparing yourself with others. The others are also performing, they have good image and same like I have, the good image. There is a compact information and concept of self-development and it is prone to self-consciousness. There is a chemical change and that is susceptibility to influence others, it affects your peers and through this thought, when it develops thoughts like impulses and that impulses empowers it, makes it a poet and there are some chemical changes in it and it develops in the nervous system, in the brain. And this is very important, that we have a strong way, in the children, their attributes, their characteristics, they express themselves in front of them, they feel it, they execute it and they get success in it. And in the same way, greater freedom and interdependence. When the child is born, when he is with others, when he is engaged in teamwork when he is looking at his soldiers, then he is in a competitive situation and he is successful by bringing his soldiers with him. And this is the need in which we develop his self-concept. That is, when we give him an activity in a group, ultimately, his self-concept is developing while comparing with others, while executing itself and he has the opportunity to evaluate himself. And there are two things that are very important in this. The first thing is that for self-concept and self-worth, his success is very important. That small successes are very important for the improvement, in the activities is very necessary and very helpful. The second thing that is important is approval. How other people are accepting its characteristics, its activities, its execution or its approval. Sign up approval is very important in the shape of words in the shape of some certifications. And it is very helpful for the development of self-concept. Thank you very much for listening.


What's good y'all I have a question to ask you my wife and I've been married for almost 23 years. It's come in June Couldn't imagine me being without her in my life, but should the Lord Terry one of us have probably go before the other So here's my question How long or when is it too soon to get remarried or get back into the you know Remarriage game if you will How do you think that Would I guess come over or go over with you know our children or or your children if you were to be married should your spouse You know Pass I know people have the different you know grieving processes and some people take longer to grieve than others Some people it doesn't take long at all. Whatever the case might be, but this one none of your thoughts about it When is it too soon or let me know what you think? I'm trying to see something


Well, I wish there could be, oh, text, oh, it's from Garmin. Are you up for a challenge, meters at the first tee at Conway Golf Club? Oh, hello, that's a text. Yeah, it's Garmin. Sorry, we text the wrong number. Are you having a laugh? Well, it's okay, yes, so joking aside, we are going to be looking at a Garmin product, but we're also going to be looking at something from Sky Carry and Bushnell. And the idea is to look at three different types of range finder GPS systems and find out which I think is best suited to average golfers. It's fair to say that pretty much all golfers now with a very high percentage are carrying one of these types of devices. It's very rare that you see somebody getting to a 150 marker, 200 marker, and striding out the yardage. We don't see that anymore, which is a bit of a shame in some ways. But anyway, where we're at right now, technology is superb. And these are three items that are very much sit at the top of the tree. The idea is not to review each of these, it's to compare the types of. But for reference, I've got the Bushnell Pro XE. That is the all singing and all dancing in terms of range finder. That's incredible what that thing does. And I'll mention what it does as we go along. I've got the Sky Carry SX500 and I've got the Garmin approach S40 Watch. Three different devices, they each do different things, ultimately gives the yardage to where we want to go. But I'm going to test out here on the course and like I say, see which is best suited to an average golfer. The first thing we will look at is ease of use and perhaps how that will relate to speed of play. So first of all, a Bushnell, they come with a fancy pouch that can be attached to the bag. I must admit, I use Bushnell at the moment, so mine is just in the front pocket in case of rooting round for it in the bag.  The SX500 again, depending on where you want to keep it, I keep it in the front pocket. Point to mention on this, it's always on this machine throughout the round. So as soon as you pick it up and out the bag, you're immediately accessing data. And the one that sort of is the easiest in terms of use because it is just a quick flick of the wrist. Look at the watch and you are immediately accessing the data that you want. In terms of green data, that is, you might want to move things round a little bit in terms of looking for hazards and such like. But in terms of accessing speed of play, then the watch in that case is a clear winner. So next thing I want to talk about is ease of use. And this could apply to, without want to be disrespectful, there's things like sort of how good your eyesight is in terms of visibility and how good the screens are. And using a bushel is the first one. Obviously, you've got to take a look through the sort of binocular type. You've got to zap onto a target. It does alert you as soon as you're fixed onto that target, but the number display in there is relatively small. So again, I would think for the majority of people, that's not an issue, but for some people, that may be struggling in that department, that's one thing that might be worth considering. The display on the SX500, I mentioned when I did the review, is phenomenal. I just had a panic there. I hadn't pressed my audio on. Yeah, it's fantastic. The display is superb. It's a five-inch screen. It's full colour. You can zoom into that if you're struggling in terms of, like I said, in terms of your eyesight or whatever, but I wouldn't think you'd need to. The numbers are very bold and visible. With the watch, visibility-wise, it's very, very good. It's on the same lines as the SX500. Very clear, big and bold numbers, front, middle and back again in terms of greens. It becomes a little bit more fiddly in terms of use when you want to move things around a bit, in terms of you can move pin positions, as you can with the SX500, to something that you can see out there on the green. I would say for ease of use, SX500 wins by an absolute country mile, to be honest with you. It's one of the big, big key factors that this thing does incredibly well. I can't believe how nice it is today, Darren at Conway. There's one feature we've got to look at with the Bushnell, and this incredibly clever Bushnell. This is a Pro Xe, and it's got some elements in there that you want to find in the other two devices. I'm going to mention it very briefly. When I look at this flag here as a prime example, yardage to the flag is 51 degrees, but what this thing does unbelievably is it makes allowance for both temperature and for slope, so where we're playing from. It makes a 2% adjustment it's saying on that screen when I look at it now, so 51 to the flag. In today's temperatures, it's playing 53. That's incredibly accurate information, and I think it sort of tells a tale about haps who that feature at least is aimed at, and it's probably not me. One other thing to consider with the watch in particular is it's quite a decent looking piece of kit, and obviously it doubles up as more than just a piece of equipment that you can use on a golf course, so I think you've also got to consider, and a bonus, it's a decent looking watch on the wrist to be fair. Now it doesn't happen too often on a Lynx course, and that being that you can't see the flag, because generally when you're laid out in front of you, you don't get many trees on Lynx courses, but we've got a situation here at Conway where there's some humps and bumps there and over the top, about 108 yards away, there is a green. And I say that because I know where it is and I know the centre of the green from the watch and I can get it from the sky caddy, but I can't get that from the bushtun. That's one of the downers of a range finder, and as I walk sort of 60, 70 yards to my right, and I can get an angle in there to the flag, then I've got no idea as to where I'm playing. So I think it's probably more apparent on a woodland course on treeed areas where you're just literally playing some blind shots and if you can't get that zapped into a flag, then you've got a bit of a problem. And like I said, a real bonus in terms of the watch. The interesting thing, a watch and handheld device, the interesting thing for me, and I've not tried it on the SX500, is the way it automatically finds the hole. One of the issues that used to be was that if you'd, I've just chopped and changed a little bit across this golf course and I've just arrived on the ninth, and the watch automatically recognised that I was playing down nine and changed the position accordingly. So a clever little bit on the watch there and I've got a feeling that would be the same on the SX500. Right, we're losing a bit of light, so I think it's time to draw this one to a close in a very brief summary. I think almost the three devices or maybe two out of three are aimed at average golfers and we've got the pro range finder aimed at the better player. I think it's as simple as that, the more accurate player, let's say. And for me, how precise that thing is in terms of that particular model is incredible. To make allowances for temperature and also for slope, but again can you use them in competition golf? No, so slightly again debatable on that one. But if you're a real serious player and every yard counts, then yes by all means go to them and I think a range finder in general which I play is it over-egging it a little bit in terms of the accuracy? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, but for me ease of use, the display far more usable. I think front, middle and back is really again for average golfers more than enough in terms of information. How many times should we just go for middle of the green? I bet if we took that yardage all the time instead of trying to pin-seek when we shouldn't I think that's much more relevant information that's applicable to us. The fact that you can then find yardages to all kinds of bunkers, trees and all the rest of it in and around the course.  I think for me if I was making a choice and one more thing I see, the thing that I didn't think I would like is that I don't play golf in a watch and I literally forgot that thing was on. It's very very comfortable, it's very very light so it didn't impede me whatsoever in terms of playing golf in it. For me it's definitely without doubt the watch or the SX500 and I think if I was making a choice do you know what, I'm stuck on that one to be honest I was going to say the SX500 but I really like the watch and I write the fact that it is a watch as well and it gives me more than enough I think in terms of information, but the point is what's best for the average golfer? I would say one of those two devices and for the better player it's maybe the bushel. I made heavy weather of that, didn't I? Flipping, it was a bit of a long drawn out conclusion, I'm out of breath anyway, I'm done I'll see you later, happy Christmas