Feeding our Minds Erasmus Project

Project Title

Feeding our Minds

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Four of the five schools have worked together successfully on previous projects. The most recent concerned the development of entrepreneurship amongst young people. During these projects it became clear that there were further future possibilities for collaboration and projects where skills/knowledge/expertise could be shared to benefit our students. In this case it is skills/knowledge/expertise relating to the restaurant/food and drink industry as well as the need to improve language and literacy skills that are the focus.

Throughout the project it is intended to create a collection of videos that can be used as a training and educational tool for students wishing to pursue a career in the industry. The videos will include tutorials and demonstrate good practice in all the main parts of restaurant service including the preparation of dishes to the serving of drinks. The films will be in English and subtitled (in the partners’ languages and sign language). In addition a digital brochure will be produced where students will contribute recipes from dishes inspired from the reading of books from their countries.

It is intended to involve approximately 100 students in total for the project taken from all the partner schools. Some of the students will come from more disadvantaged backgrounds and will be in need of additional help and support with regard to literacy and technical skills levels. In the longer term it is hoped the students’ employment prospects will be greatly enhanced as well as their confidence and self-esteem. For many it will be the first opportunity they will have to travel and study outside of the home country or even region. For the schools the project will continue to support and enhance the courses they offer, hopefully attract greater numbers of students and promote the food and drink industry as a quality career of choice. The outcomes from the project, the training videos and the magazine,will also be available as legacy resources that can be used with future students from the partner schools and others.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130000 Eur

Project Coordinator

Launceston College & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Istituto Professionale Statale Servizi Alberghieri e Ristorazione “Costa Smeralda”
• Stredni skola hotelova a sluzeb Kromeriz
• Escola Profissional Agrícola Conde S.Bento
• EKONOMSKA I TURISTICKA SKOLA DARUVAR