European Qualifications & Competences for the Vegan Food Industry Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Qualifications & Competences for the Vegan Food Industry

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The food industry is changing due to several driving forces, based on the consumer changes toward plant-based diets, leading to an increased share of production by the vegan food industry, that to maintain competitiveness needs to master new processes and technologies. Additionally, the food industry is subject to more demanding sustainability requirements, that together with digitalization and automatization trends, are quickly changing the required skills of its workers. Innovative trainings covering these technical issues are needed to support the quick change towards the vegan food industry adapted to Industry4.0.EQVEGAN is a Sector Skills Alliance composed by 15 institutions from 11 countries. The institutions cover diverse profiles, including VET providers from EQF levels 4 to 7, companies, associations of industries, associations of food industry professionals and of teachers and researchers, ministry of science and technology and a qualification agency. The consortium covers the necessary competences to design innovative and highly qualified training, enabling an upskilling and conversion of skills according to market needs, with the use of the EU quality and reference tools, which will accelerate the qualified growth of this sector. The Alliance will design and offer innovative trainings to professionals and students from EQF levels 4 to 7, in 7 languages (English, Croatian, Finnish, French, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish). The Alliance will develop a Skills Portal that will include a stakeholder’s database, reviewed occupational profiles, and an apprenticeship database. A European scheme for job profile certification will be devised and guidelines for recognition informed by sectoral qualifications will be prepared, promoting the trans-national mobility of professionals, that ultimately will be leading to an effective impact in the EU food industry.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999870 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE COIMBRA & Country: PT

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION DE COORDINATION TECHNIQUE POUR L’INDUSTRIE AGROALIMENTAIRE
• MALTA COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• ISEKI-FOOD – EUROPAISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR DIE INTEGRATION DER LEBENSMITTELWISSINSCHAFT UND -TECHNOLGIE IN DIE LEBENSMITTELVERSORGUNGSKETTE
• SIHTASUTUS KUTSEKODA
• ANKARA UNIVERSITESI
• ACTAE ASOCIACION DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA DE LOS ALIMENTOS DE EUSKADI
• UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB – FACULTY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY – UZAG PBF