The Flavia Foundation (Fundación Latinoamericana de apoyo a la enseñanza, investigación y desarrollo de la Ciencia Avícola – Latin American Foundation for Support to Teaching, Research, and Development of Avian Science) launched FlaviaEduca, an online course platform in Spanish, on September 24, 2025. The initiative aims to offer training for professionals and entrepreneurs in agricultural sciences and other sectors.

The inaugural course, which is entirely free, addresses the theme «One Health» and is aimed at professionals from multiple areas, such as agricultural, livestock, health, environmental and public administration sciences.

According to Dr. William Vicente Narváez Solarte, a professor at the Universidad de Caldas and one of the entity’s founders, the platform will allow them to bring more information to more people, anywhere in Colombia, Latin America, and the world:

-We will promote face-to-face courses, which we consider indispensable and to have proven effectiveness. However, we will now have an additional tool that can be used for courses with a comprehensive approach to content and also as a complement to in-person courses – stated Professor Narváez.

FLAVIA: new areas of focus and more collaborators

In addition to the new tool, the Foundation also announced the expansion of its scope, now including projects in general agriculture and livestock, agroindustry and environment. Concurrently, to meet the increase in demand for projects, the Foundation began to rely on the participation of several new collaborators, including those from countries other than Colombia.

This includes the coordinator of the FlaviaEduca platform, the Brazilian Marcos Orlando de Oliveira, a Forest Engineer with a postgraduate degree in Audiovisuals, who has extensive experience in scientific and technological dissemination. His work includes the production of video courses and documentaries, the development of distance learning courses, preparation of technical manuals, and work with scientific journalism across multiple media.

The Brazilian shared that the Flavia Foundation’s new project is challenging, but it will play an important role in meeting a growing demand for technical and scientific information in Latin America:

– I was quite impressed with the enthusiasm of Professor William Narváez and the zootechnician and projects consultant Jorge Tovar, two of Flavia’s founders, who have ambitious goals for the Foundation. It was very easy to align their ideas about Flavia’s future with my decades of experience in technology diffusion in Brazil. From that came FlaviaEduca, a project that will certainly be very successful because it seeks to bring excellence in continuing education to professionals in the Agricultural Sciences.

The FlaviaEduca platform can be accessed via this link:

https://flavia-educa.odoo.com/

First course addresses emerging global topic

The inaugural FlaviaEduca course is titled “One Health: Integrated Approach for Professionals in Agricultural Sciences, Health, Environment, and Public Administration”. It deepens the study of this scientifically validated interdisciplinary concept, moving beyond the more common approach that, until now, directed the concept only towards zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance. Divided into five modules, the course presents the interconnections between human, plant, animal and environmental health.

The content was developed under the coordination of Professor Sandra Yuliet Marín Gómez, who holds a doctorate in Animal Science and teaches at the Universidad de Caldas and the Universidad Nacional in Colombia. Professor Sandra also worked as a researcher and was a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil for ten years. According to her:

– One Health is a concept that proposes to integrate health topics, from agricultural production, through agroindustry, until we reach the environment and the human being. Therefore, professionals from multiple backgrounds, not just veterinarians and doctors, need training on the subject. And that is what we set out to do in the course we prepared for FlaviaEduca.

Based on this multidisciplinary approach, the course was designed to allow professionals to learn about health topics from areas different from their own training and specialty, in addition to the interconnections between these topics. Thus, a physician, for example, can learn in more detail about issues related to plant, animal, and environmental health and discover their connections with human health. For this purpose, the content was combined with an adequate dose of depth so that different professionals can study them effectively.

Below is the video about the course(in Spanish – activate automatic Youtube subtitles):

Below is a link that provides more information about the course, including the summary and access to registration.