BALTIC VET Skills competition in catering and food industry sectors Erasmus Project

Project Title

BALTIC VET Skills competition in catering and food industry sectors

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Quality Assurance

Project Summary

Skills competition contribute to the prestige of vocational education schools and self-esteem of learners, raising public awareness of vocational education as a value and inspiring young people to choose vocational qualifications. Local competition held at school level inspire students to explore their profession deeper, check their skills and get ready for national competition. The winners of national competition have priority to take part in international competition organized by partner countries and continue for EUROSKILLS AND WORLDSKILLS. The objectives of this project is to prepare tools for national, Baltic, EUROSKILLS and WORLDSKILLS competitions in catering (cooks and pastry cooks) and food industry sectors. The partners of the project (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) are vocational education schools and have programs for cooks, pastry cooks and food industry workers. All schools are very international, they belong to Association of European hotel and catering schools. The schools have great experience in organizing national and international competitions, but there’s a gap in agreement on competition requirements at national and international level. The need to organize competition at the same level, with the same requirements, goals and evaluation is of great importance. Till today we were writing competition rules, evaluation, inventory and ingredients every time we decided to organize competition (national or international) and they varied every time depending on the school, country, students competences. There’s a great need to create manual for organizing competitions, create competition rules and agree on evaluation requirements in order to talk the same language and properly prepare students for local, national, Baltic competition leading to EUROSKILLS and WORLDSKILLS.
Target groups- students of catering and food industry sectors and teachers who prepare students for competition.
The project fullfills sectorial, national and international needs.
There will be created intelectual outputs: manual; competition rules; requirements for evaluation.
During the project period will be held 4 international meetings, 1 blended mobility, 3 multiplier events.
Will be created project logo and Project Facebook page.
The project activities are divided into three main Work Packages.
WP 1) “Project Management”: all partners will contribute to the proper management of the project by carrying out the activities as foreseen in the Detailed Project Plan and providing all the necessary information for the preparation of the technical and financial reports to be submitted to the Education Exchanges Support Foundation (SMPF) Lithuanian National Agency. The lead applicant – Kaunas Food Industry and Trade Training Center (KMPPMC) will be the coordinator for WP1 and will be the interface with the National Agency for all related matters.
WP 2) “Exchange of good practices and development of the competition model”: the main goal is to develop competition model according to the principles of EUROSKILLS and WORLDSKILLS. All partners will identify, study and analyse the related competition rules for catering and food industry VET students in their country and will come up with suggestions for the development of competition model. KMPPMC will be responsible for writing competition rule, VSIA Rigas Turisma un radosas industrijas tehnikums- for writing manual and Tartu LINN- for evaluation guideliness. 4 transnational meetings will take place during the project period. The 1st and the last ones will be held in KMPPMC, 2 nd in Tartu LINN and 3rd in VSIA Rigas Turisma un radosas industrijas tehnikums. The last transnational meeting will be held at the same period when blended students’ mobility will take place in KMPPMC (the intelectual products will be tested during the blended mobility and international Baltic States competition for cooks, pastry cooks and food industry VET students will be organized). At the same time KMPPMC will organize multiplier event and the participants of the multiplier event will have opportunity to evaluate project results.
WP 3) “Communication and dissemination of results”: Dissemination of the results will take place in 3 partner organizations. Seminars will be organized and all interested partners will be able to get acquainted with the project results.
All intelectual outputs will be available for all interested parties. They will be found on partner schools webpages, will be shared also on the portal Open Education Europe, The Erasmus + dissemination platform will be also used.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 101430 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kauno maisto pramones ir prekybos mokymo centras & Country: LT

Project Partners

• TARTU LINN
• VSIA Rigas Turisma un radosas industrijas tehnikums