Kulinarik, Kultur und Europa – Kulinarische, kulturelle und europäische Themen im fächerübergreifenden Unterricht vorbereiten und sich im Land des Projektpartners gemeinsam damit auseinandersetzen Erasmus Project

Project Title

Kulinarik, Kultur und Europa – Kulinarische, kulturelle und europäische Themen im fächerübergreifenden Unterricht vorbereiten und sich im Land des Projektpartners gemeinsam damit auseinandersetzen

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Background of the Project

The Klessheim Tourism School has an international focus with internationality, modern languages, European context, mobility and intercultural exchange being quality objectives of the school development plan. In Klessheim there are 69 teaching staff and 410 students ranging in age from 14 to 21 years old. Our school has a longstanding student exchange programme with the French tourism school Lycee des métier de l’hotellerie et du tourisme Alexandre Dumas. Extensive work has been carried out to develop teaching materials and methods.

Objective of the Project

The pupils should be able to recognise and also experience the EU as the heart of the European ideal thus leading to the development of historical and cultural awareness. A strengthening of the language competence should also be attained. This is in accordance with employability, including general as well as vocational language and expertise for familiar routine situations in the context of a job. The young people should network in accordance with international tourism vocational training and should be encouraged to further their professional development at a European level.
The pupils should in the course of their mobility concern themselves actively with European topics, exchange views with their partners and an improvement in the language competence should be achieved.
The foreign language should be seen in the context of being “experienced” (participation in everyday life in the partner school, cooking specialities of the partner country together in the foreign language in the practical lessons). In addition the importance of the foreign language should be increased for the pupil above all through the example of the European institutions in Strassburg.
The teaching staff continue the exchange of best practices in the partnership and the training plans are improved and augmented in line with these best practices.

Student mobility

The focus is on the development of an awareness of culture and history (in the European dimension), as well as on the practical and also the theoretical subjects. Languages, practical skills and intercultural competence are acquired in the training institutes and their associated operations (kitchen, restaurants, hotels) through practical use in contact with native speakers of the partner country. The focus on European, historical and cultural topics (among others also according to the curriculum) is implemented in cross-curricular lessons, whereby the teaching staff of both institutes work together. The preparatory activities are documented. During the mobility the topics (European institutions, selected historical and cultural topics and the language and practical competence enhancement are documented and after the mobility in each partner institute a review takes place. In addition a small Erasmus+ exhibition is organized in the library (Klessheim) and in CDI (Strassburg)and/or an information evening for the students of the subsequent years.-
Long term benefits
As long term benefits we expect a strengthening and extension of the strategic partnership at a European level as well as increased capacity and experience in order to remain innovative in this area.
The project contributes to the promotion of empowerment, cross-sectorial co-operation and increased transparency as well as active citizenship.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58192 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tourismusschulen Salzburg GmbH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Lycée des métiers de l’hôtellerie et du tourisme Alexandre Dumas