EVALUATION OF EDUCATION ON SUSTAINABLE USE OF PESTICIDES BY AN AUTHORIZED INSTITUTION

Ministarstvo poljoprivrede (MP) Republike Hrvatske donijelo je Nacionalni akcijski plan za postizanje održive uporabe pesticida (NAP) sukladno zahtjevu Direktive 2009/128/EZ. Na osnovi zakona o sredstvima za zaštitu bilja izrađen je pravilnik kojim se propisuju uvjeti i način provedbe osnovne i dopunske izobrazbe profesionalnih i ostalih korisnika. Ovlaštena institucija od strane MPa, tvrtka DMD Naturalis d. o. o. iz Zagreba, započela je u prosincu 2014. provedbu izobrazbe. Tijekom razdoblja do kraja listopada 2015. provela je 142 izobrazbe za profesionalne korisnike s 20 predavača u 109 mjesta za 5 666 korisnika. Izobrazbe su provođene od Stona, najjužnijeg mjesta, do Gradišćaka kao najsjevernijeg, i od najistočnije Županje do najzapadnijeg Umaga. Provedba izobrazbi bila je izazov kako za ovlaštene institucije i angažirane predavače, tako i za korisnike jer je bila najopsežnija i najzahtjevnije organizirana edukacija punoljetnih osoba u povijesti hrvatske fitomedicinske struke. Ciljevi rada su: 1. razvijenim andragoškim instrumentom izmjeriti uspješnost provedene izobrazbe; 2. analizirati čimbenike za uspješnu izobrazbu SWOT analizom provedenom među predavačima i administratorima ovlaštene institucije. U svrhu provođenja prvog dijela istraživanja telefonski je provedena nasumična anketa koja se sastoji od tri dijela upita nad uzorkom od 10 % educiranih korisnika (N= 600). Za drugi dio istraživanja provedena je SWOT analiza izobrazbe koju su proveli predavači i administratori institucije. Po dobnoj strukturi u izobrazbi prevladavaju osobe iznad 30 godina starosti, muškarci, sa srednjom stručnom spremom. Polaznici su na većinu pitanja o zadovoljstvu s provedenom izobrazbom i osobnim napretkom odgovorili ocjenjujući ih izvrsno ili vrlo dobro. Iz vrijednosti najvećeg umnoška (19,8) SWOT matrice najbolja strategija za unaprjeđenje izobrazbe u budućnosti bila bi tzv. strategija „MAXIMINI“.The Ministry of Agriculture (MoJ) of the Republic of Croatia has adopted a National Action Plan for Achieving Sustainable Use of Pesticides (NAP) in accordance with the requirements of Directive 2009/128/EC. Based on the Law on Plant Protection Products, an ordinance has been drafted which prescribes the conditions and manner of conducting basic and additional training for professional and other pesticide users. An authorized institution by MoA, DMD Naturalis Ltd., from Zagreb, started the trainings in December 2014. During the period until the end of October 2015, they conducted 142 courses for professional users with 20 lecturers in 109 places for 5,666 of them. The trainings were conducted from Ston, the southernmost town to Gradišćak the northernmost and from the easternmost Županja to the westernmost Umag. The implementation of the training was a challenge for both the authorized institutions engaged lecturers and users as it was the most comprehensive and demanding organized education of adults in the history of the Croatian phytomedicine profession. The aims of the work are: 1. to measure the success of the training carried out with the developed andragogical instrument; 2. Analyze the factors for successful education with SWOT analysis conducted among lecturers and administrators of an authorized institution. For the purpose of conducting the first part of the survey, a random survey was provided by telephone, consisting of three parts of a query over a sample of 10% of educated users (N=600). The SWOT analysis of the provided Training was conducted by the lecturers and administrators of the institution. The age structure in education is dominated by persons over 30 years of age, male, with secondary education. Participants answered most questions about satisfaction with their training and personal progress, assessing them as excellent or very good. From the value of the highest multiplication (19.8) of the SWOT matrix, the best strategy to improve training in the future would be the so-called the “MAXI-MINI strategy”