More than 100 participants from 14 countries attended the international conference. The conference presented the results of the Inpact project - an international collaborative project between the nature of agricultural and agricultural schools last winter organized three-week course in one of seven countries for more than 70 students from Greece, Romania, Austria, the Netherlands, Latvia, Denmark and Norway.
The project coordinator Harm Holleman from the Netherlands made a lecture about the Inpact project, while Peder Damgaard from Denmark talked about the experiences that were made through the two years the project. 
Farmer Johannes Dyste from Kolbu, as a Cop member presented his views on the project Inpact. He belonged to the network of resource persons Valle spent on their training in March 2010.
Three students were interviewed by the principal Morten Kleven about their experiences of participating in these courses. Those who were interviewed were Anne Stine Myrvold from Valdres, Norway was in Austria, Ann-Iren Berglund from Sel, Norway that were in Latvia and Emmanouil "Lino" Kymionis - Mouzakis from Greece who was in Denmark. Everyone was clearly very pleased with their participation and also expressed that they had benefited greatly, professional, linguistically, socially and culturally from the project.
During the conference six different workshops was carried out where experiences from last year were discussed. Finally, representatives of the new schools were invited into the partnership. It resulted in six schools from six countries showed their interest. There are schools in England, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Estonia and Denmark. For the winter of 2011 new Inpact courses take place from March 28 to 15 April for students who belong to this network which then will consist of more countries. This means that students from Valle and others schools in Norway and Europe are invited to register for the relevant courses. Information about the courses will be available on the project website www.inpactproject.net .
In the evening there was a guided tour of the Valle, which was carried by students and teachers at Valle. Six items was set up to introduce the school.
Then there was the conference dinner in the ballroom with songs, speeches and entertainment by Øystein Rudi from Hundorp in Gudbrandsdalen.
Saturday 25th September there were two excursion Oppland. One of the trips were in Toten and Hadeland visiting farms, first to farmer Johan Arild Hveem, then to Mari Sangnæs. The second trip went to Valdres, Gjendesheim, Heidalen and Gudbrandsdalen. On that trip visiting foreigners Noraker farm, Bioforsk Løken, Gjendesheim and Ringebu stave church.
The project will be completed in the autumn 2010, but the network and courses will continue with new students in 2011 and hopefully in the coming years.
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