“From soil to plate” – Culinary heritage and sustainable and approved agricultural products Erasmus Project

Project Title

“From soil to plate” – Culinary heritage and sustainable and approved agricultural products

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The envisaged exchange concerns the exchange of professional courtesies.

This school exchange aims at bringing together European young people (French and Portuguese) who have or have had school difficulties, and value them through their future jobs. We want to show to the pupils that it is possible to widen the field of its own job, to distinguish itself from the competition by the labelling of products, and work in the respect for the Human and for the Nature. Show also to the pupils that they can communicate with other pupils of different language and culture. We wish that this exchange is perpetuated.

The concerned pupils are in professionnal schools. This first experience of school exchange would concern 15 pupils of the MFR of Lambesc, 7-8 pupils of the MFR of La Roque d’Anthéron and 8-10 pupils of the EPHTM of Funchal. They would be accompanied by one to two teachers by group.

The theme is “From soil to plate” – Culinary heritage and sustainable and approved agricultural products, for pupils in agricultural course and pupils in cooking and restaurant courses. Every group of pupils would make discover and would discover the future job of the other pupils, their jobsare linked : the farmers produce ingredients used in cooking to satisfy the restaurant.

The first two meetings aim that the teachers meet themselves to discover the structure of teaching of the other partners, the educational peculiarities to every system of teaching, the specificities of the jobs of farmer, of cooker and and restaurant owner. These meetings will allow to plan the activities in which the pupils will participate afterward.

The two other meetings (one in Madeira and one in France) will allow the pupils to meet themselves. The idea is to value the young people by asking them to liven up meetings with professionnals of each job, to liven up workshops of professional practices (plantation, preparation of culinary specialities, tasting of wine, …) and to make discover to the others the cultural heritage of each of region (Madeira and Provence). This methodology has to allow the pupils to be actors in this exchange.

The expected profits are that the young people are valued by the exchange, that they are more tolerant with young people who don’t speak their language, and that they envisage then an individual mobility as Erasmus+ K1. Of course, they will be enriched by the discovery of the jobs associated to theirs.

In the medium term, the expected impacts are to envisage an individual mobility for pupils who did not feel capable of leaving for total autonomy. Also, a remotivation of the young people for the studies, and a pursuit of studies in a training course superior (with possibility of mobility abroad for a longer period). These pupils could so “forget” their school difficulties by this exchange. They would have proved to themselves that they are capable of surpassing themselves.

In the longer term, a valuation of the vocational trainings which contribute to the in trouble school success of the pupils at a moment of their cursus.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46740 Eur

Project Coordinator

MAISON FAMILIALE DE LAMBESC & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Centro de Estudos, Línguas e Formação do Funchal, S.A. /EPHTM
• MFR La Roque d’Anthéron