The course comprises training in collaboration, project management and process facilitation between different stakeholders in dynamic surroundings. The course is divided into two parts:

Part 1 "Systems of knowledge and learning" includes:
- Different approaches to knowledge such as scientific knowledge, rural (popular) knowledge based on experience and cultural knowledge.

- Approaches to share and gain knowledge such as transfer of knowledge, experiential learning/learning in action and introspective and third loop learning.

- Scientific knowledge traditions and rationalities such as social science, natural science, interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.

- Rural peoples’ knowledge and rationalities.

- Methods and tools for learning and knowledge generation such as quantitative science methods, qualitative science methods, PLAR (Participatory Learning and Action Research) methods, experiential learning.

Part 2 "Project Management and Process Facilitation" includes:
- Understanding of basic similarities and differences between a project and a process and of how to carry out management and facilitation.

- Theory on project management and process facilitation, including planning and decision-making, collaboration and group dynamics, conflicts and conflict management, documentation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

- Farmers’ perspectives on projects.

- Organisational project and process views, including the roles of a project leader and a facilitator.