Laying European Table Erasmus Project

Project Title

Laying European Table

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

In Laying European Table LET Project partner schools from Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal and Turkey combined their efforts in order to give their students general information about entrepreneurship, making money out of their ideas, information about commerce and trade connected with catering business, understanding different cultures and food traditions. Since the school consortium represents various cultures, natures, living styles, this variation helped pupils to understand differences and build commercial ideas on it.
Throughout the project each participating school created small virtual catering business which they developed into real enterprises in the future. All the results of the projects activities conveyed in a book and a DVD. Moreover we organised a Festival of European Tastes where each country participating in the project presented their national/regional dishes. We also made a survey about food preferences in our countries. During all the project we made short films about preparing different dishes. We made about 6 films per country. All the activities and products implemented on eTwinning platform, Facebook, European Shared Treasure website and Youtube.
Organization of international meetings gave a chance for sharing experience between partners and discussion about national food preferences, presenting how to set up catering business, showing the profile of successful restaurant owner, solving problems which occurred between the meetings.
School community improved their English competence, social skills, communication techniques, ICT abilities and entrepreneurship knowledge, as well as their travelling skills. They developed their mutual tolerance and self-esteem due to the fact they came in contact with different cultures traditions and languages.
This project was also an opportunity for discovering and using new methods of education, by learning more about each other educational systems, attending classes in all participant countries and exchanging their good practice experience.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 81685 Eur

Project Coordinator

KARSIYAKA ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• IIS Maria Pia
• Jurmalas pilsetas Jaundubultu vidusskola
• Zespol Szkol Ekonomiczno-Uslugowych w Rybniku
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Arouca