FLOURY FOOD SAFETY TRAINING FROM VIRTUAL TO REALITY FOR YOUTH Erasmus Project

Project Title

FLOURY FOOD SAFETY TRAINING FROM VIRTUAL TO REALITY FOR YOUTH

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Health and wellbeing; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

Food manufacturing sector is the biggest sector in the world which continues to grow with each passing day to ensure the supply-demand balance and this sector requires quality, a young dynamic employees. But according the research the young workers who works in this sector do not have any professional qualification and they learn to job with the master-apprentice method. Therefore need to train these employees/young unemployed who wants to work in this sector through using innovative, accessible methods and tools in the age of information.Bakery products play an important role in eating habits and one of the cheapest , easiest supplied nutrients arround Europe and it’s directly in relationship with public health.The European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) focused on the training of employees in the sector to ensure the protection of consumer interests at the highest level in all areas of human health related to food in scope of harmonization with EU standards.

The aim of the project in this context;To develop open source innovative training tool for young workers/ young people who want to work in floury food manufacturing sector in order to provide a quality training of avaliable and future staff, from food sector, to be able to put European food safety policy into practice.Target groups; Young workers in floury food manufacturing sector, Young people who want to work in the sector but who do not have professional qualifications or young people who early school leavers .Need determining works ensures determining the actual training needs of youth and determine the road map for preparing the training modules in line with the needs determined as the building block of the project.

National workshops brought together in the same platform the trade unions, employer unions, public authorities and youth present in the floury food sector, thus ensure building up of a bridge between the parties, incite joint work to solve the problems impeding establishment of a more dynamic structure of higher quality in the sector and to protect public health.International training activities brought together the youth having different food culture, professional qualifications, and l ensured the training module prepared through intercultural interaction and learning was tested. Testing the availability and reliability of the activity modules where theoretical and practical trainings would be made as intermingled, ensured setting up of the E learning system of high quality and impact rate of which would be high. The system to render service as an open source in distance learning, accomplished the target of recognizing to everybody equal education right under equal chances, encourage the youth to learn as BIT based. It increased the attraction for the youth to join floury food production sector, thus ensure the sector to switch onto a more dynamic and innovative structure.Through the “E Learning” learning medium it ensured the youth to use BITs and open training sources in a more strategic and integrated way. By developing the professional qualifications, it meet the need of qualified staff needed by the floury food production sector and it will increase the quality particularity in the floury food sector by this way.Through mobile application, it incites technology be used in daily life by the youth as part of the training and ensures disadvantaged youth to access the training under equal circumstances and chances, and it also ensures sustainability of the Project impact and outcomes.

The Project partners came together in 5 international meetings with participation of personnel and they shared the experiences, results they have obtained. 2 persons from each partner country participated in the meetings and worked in cooperation for protection of public health and increasing employment rate in youth by means of training the youth in the floury food production sector.
It is being expected it would be creating a very extensive impact by participation of the Project partners, youth, stakeholders and relevant parties and through effective dissemination activities. By using innovative methods in line with information era the professional qualifications of the youth working in / who want to work in the floury food production sector Europe wide was developed, protection of public health was ensured and it increases the employment rate of youth in the floury food production sector. BIT based and mobile supported methodologies being used in the Project, ensures the youth to use the BIT tools for training purposes without having the problem of time and learning medium.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 216006 Eur

Project Coordinator

OZ TUTUN, MUSKIRAT, GIDA SANAYI VE YARDIMCI ISCILERI SENDIKASI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO FORMAZIONE OPERATORI AZIENDALI
• ASSIPAN SICILIA – CONFCOMMERCIO IMPRESE PER L’ITALIA
• ULUSLARARASI HAYAT BOYU OGRENME DERNEGI
• INSTITUTI PRINCIPE REAL – ASSOCIACAO PARA A INOVACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU