"1. ContextA food travels an average of 1500 km before reaching the plate of the European consumer. Faced with this observation and the induced consequences, a fundamental movement around food is now developing to advocate a consumption of healthy products and some production practices respectful of humans and their environment.However:- the initiatives are numerous, but not systemic;- traditional culinary habits and techniques are losing ground;- the food sector has strong growth potential, but lacks structuring;- organic and local food is both a health and economic issue, but it remains insufficiently accessible to precarious populations;- the sector generates jobs that are directly linked to a territory (therefore sustainable) and low-skilled (therefore rewarding), but implies a sustained need for awareness and training;- the short-circuit approach has entered the European political agenda, particularly at the level of the DGs ""Agriculture and Rural Development"" and ""Health and Consumers"".2. ObjectivesThe project partners are positioning themselves against these findings by setting up an ""eco-caterer"" training program accessible to a vulnerable public and valuing specific know-how and professional skills.It concerns areas such as:- economy, in terms of skills needs for the labor market;- education, for adult training operators;- society, by addressing a precarious public;- environment, focusing its actions on the particular dimension of a sustainable food (healthy, organic, local and seasonal), but also from the more global angle of a catering kitchen in transition with regard to its energy aspects, waste management, supplier and customer relations, etc.Then the project has taken the principles and tools ECVET to define the complement of skills to convert the ""classic"" professional catering courses. It should be noted that targeted training uses work-based learning methods.The ultimate goal of this project is to create a new business profile linked to adapted learning units and to carry out a real-life test in order to validate the results.3. Number and profile of participating organizationsThe project brings together 4 federations and 10 training operators directly and indirectly involving several hundred trainees and impacting a large target audience.4. Description of the main activities implementedA new training program was developed starting from concrete local situations in 5 different countries, thus determining a common ""transcultured"" base, so transferable to various pedagogical and culinary contexts.The project partners have also achieved maximum dissemination through the organization of a series of events targeting a variety of audiences (17 initiatives in two years) and through the use of Erasmus + dissemination platforms as well as through their own tools, including an open access website, to disseminate productions and raise awareness of the theme and its context.5. Results and impacts achievedThe project focused on the role of eco-kitchen assistant: the function is connected to all the activities in & around a kitchen, thus the bases of the work are in place to extend in a next step the reflections carried out around this concrete profile to the set of functions of a restaurant, with some certification as perspective.The innovation consists in the fact that three new standards have been developed and validated for a relevant sector in which work-based training takes place, namely: a business profile, a training module with tools and an evaluation system, transposable according to the local realities.In order to be directly and immediately integrated into a training cycle, a syllabus contextualizes the process, groups the tools and completes the results using teaching resources.Learners, which include a vulnerable public, are now better equipped through their training related to sustainable food. Economic actors gain in terms of high-level professional qualifications and transparency in the training cycle.6. Long-term benefitsThe centers involved in the project also derive indirect benefits over the long term, since, on the one hand, their trainers were able to exchange good practices, both pedagogical and professional, and on the other their ""HoReCa"" training programs welcomes new ideas… and new equipments. This is certainly a source of inspiration for the actors interested in starting this dynamic.Thanks to the new resources, access to the labor market is also facilitated for a wider range of jobseekers, on a long-term basis since it is linked to some needs that cannot be relocated.Through their training, learners are also sensitized through the daily food gestures, as a citizen consumer of the European space.Finally, all the networks of the partners were mobilized around the issues (both food & training) through a more comprehensive process of lifelong learning, with a view to multiplying the first results initiated by the project over a wider spectrum."

Due to the digitalization and technological progress of the labor market, the high rates of youth unemployment in Spain and the large number of students who drop out of school without professional qualification, the consortium's of VET schools were aware to face the challenge of improving the professional development of VET students for their participation as active citizens in society and to improve their opportunities to join the European labor market. The project imed at providing VET students with the chance to deepen and improve the quality of their training, by carrying out internships in European companies, and getting in contact with European labour market. The good results and the close cooperation among the VET Schools that have been members of the consortium, set the basis for the development of this project.The consortium has been composed by 8 VET schools of the Valencian Region, coordinated by the IES Lluis Simarro. The VET schools consortim needed to establish European quality networks with companies and other educational centres throughout Europe, in order to stay update on innovations, to share good practices and to get informed on European policies, improving the quality of the provided teaching and trainings, thus fighting youth unemployment. The project has been adressed to 84 students and former students who are attending the 2nd course of school-based intermediate VET programme of IT, construction and civil engineering, electronics and electricity, hospitality and tourism and administration or graduates in the last year: mid-level technicians of these specialties. CIPFP Xeste has selected 16 students, CIPFP Ciutat del aprenent has selected 7 , CIPFP LLuis Suñer 4, IES Lluis Simarro 25, IES Enguera 9, IES LLopis Marí 7, IES Marcos Zaragozá 3 and IES María Enriquez 9, four of them will be ErasmusPro It is worth mentioning that relations with Istituto Elsa Morante in Italy has fostered reciprocity, it has also submitted a mobility project in which Spanish consortium has received their students. The reciprocity has enhanced the promotion of the European active citizenship. The 14 months project that has been developed from the 1st of June 2018 to the 30th of July 2019 has been structured in 5 phases: E1- Activities for communicating and spreading information to promote the students’ participation, planning tasks (including participants’ selection), establishing Learning Agreements, reviewing of ECVET documents, logistics and organization (insurance, lights and accommodation), determining contract-related issues, selecting hosting companies, tutors and accompanying teachers, setting up a common dissemination plan. E2-Preparation of the mobilities. Information Meeting, signing contracts, cultural and professional preparation, OLS language courses. E3- Implementation of mobilities. Follow-up, evaluation and certification of participants. Competences have been determined in the Learning Agreement and have been evaluated, using the ECVET instruments and them have been certified by Europass. E4- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the overall project’s results. E5- Dissemination. The dissemination activities have been carried out during all the project In addition to the impact on the participants, the project also has benefit all the partners, by fostering European cooperation and the relationships between companies and educational centres. Both dissemination activities and the mobility experience itself have produced an impact at local, regional and national level. Other local, regional and national entities have been able to to benefit from the project’s results (even though they are not partners of the project): - Creation of a quality network that includes educational centres and companies - Decrease in youth unemployment rate - Improvement of youth qualifications - Increase in VET enrollment - Creation of new collaborative networks at regional level - Widening the possibility of internationalization for other centres, and their chance to be part to other European projects - Better knowledge of the Erasmus+ programme and EU values (tolerance, equity, equality and inclusion). - Fostering the sense of European active citizenship and respect of other cultures - Possibility to create new companies and new business models - Promotion of social inclusion The project has been in accordance with the 2020 strategy, with the 20 principles of the European Pillar of social rights, with the goals of Erasmus + to improve the professional development of VET students, their participation as active citizens in society and their employability inside and outside the European Labour market