TASTE EUROPE ON THE GO! – Experimenting Entrepreneurial eLearning Platform for the Success of International Pop-up Restaurant Business Erasmus Project

Project Title

TASTE EUROPE ON THE GO! – Experimenting Entrepreneurial eLearning Platform for the Success of International Pop-up Restaurant Business

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

BACKGROUND
This project “Taste Europe on the Go!” has its background in our two former Erasmus+ KA2 projects, “Kick off to Entrepreneurship with Pop-up Company” (2014-1-FI01-KA202-000875) and “Building up International eLearning Entrepreneurship Platform with Pop-up Restaurant Module – Culinary Caravan on the Move” (2016-1-FI01-KA202-022755). In summer 2017 a panel of experts at the European Commission selected the project “Kick off to Entrepreneurship with Pop-up Company” as a Success Story. It was also selected as a Good Practice Example. This project “Taste Europe on the Go!” varies from the previous ones in the aspect of being a cross-sectoral project, including two universities of applied sciences concentrating on team leading and business management.

MAIN OBJECTIVES
In this project students learn entrepreneurship and show skills in a pop-up restaurant module. As a long-term benefit, the students may become entrepreneurs as they gain positive experience on it.
1. FURTHER DEVELOP and UPGRADE the pedagogical model “eLearning with Pop up Company Module” created during Culinary Caravan on the Move. The model is an international, inspiring, practical and digital way to learn entrepreneurship in an international context in vocational education
2. CREATE real street food pop up restaurants in Finland, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy.
3. UNITE European curriculums of participating vocational schools with Working as Entrepreneur module (15 ECTS) and curriculums of participating Universities of Applied Sciences with Managing Teams and Leading People (5 ECTS) and Business Startup (5 ECTS) modules
4. DECREASE vocational students’ threshold to continue studies at Universities of Applied Sciences
5. CREATE a Business Model for the restaurant business
6. DISSEMINATE PEDAGOGICAL MODEL TO STUDY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

PARTNERS
There are 8 partners of 4 countries. The participating vocational schools represent the fields of business studies (Perho Culinary, Tourism and Business College, Finland; MERCURIA, Finland, Col legi Badalonés, Spain and Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “De Amicis”, Italy) and studies in restaurant services (Perho Culinary, Tourism and Business College, Finland; Estudis d’Hoteleria i Turisme CETT, Spain and Istituto Professionale per I Servizi Alberghieri e della Restarazione “Luigi Carnacina”, Italy). The new partners are Haaga-Helia Univerisity of Applied Sciences, Finland and NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands.

PARTICIPANTS
The participants are students and teachers of 6 vocational schools in 3 countries (Finland, Spain and Italy) representing the fields of business, tourism and culinary, and students and teachers of 2 universities of applied sciences (Finland and the Netherlands). The number of participants in each workshop is about 40.

ACTION
During this project students become experienced learners of establishing and running a successful pop-up restaurant, and they gain valuable knowledge on entrepreneurship by creating a street food pop-up restaurant. In each workshop a pop-up restaurant is set up in one of the participating countries. As a whole, four street food pop-up restaurants are set up in four countries with 40 student participants and their 10 teachers working together for the success of the restaurant.
The 4 workshop weeks are organized in Finland in December 2018, Italy in May 2019, the Netherlands in December 2019, and Spain in November 2020.
1 PLAN – In the eLearning Model 40 students of 4 countries create a business plan for a street food pop-up restaurant in 3-4 months.
2 TEST AND EVALUATE – Each country develops one (local) food product for the pop-up restaurant, which is tested and evaluated.
3 CREATE THE FINAL MENU – Tested products are chosen to the final menu.
4 ESTABLISH AND RUN – During the workshop, the students establish and run their street food pop-up restaurant for 2 days, emphasizing financial viability of the business and how that can be influenced.
5 ASSESS – Success of the pop-up restaurant is evaluated in final presentations, and local restaurant entrepreneurs evaluate the outcome. Students have evaluation discussions based on the skills demonstration shown during the project.
6 DISSEMINATE – The learning process is documented in a blog, web page, and social media (Instagram #tasteeuropeonthego, Facebok events)

METHODOLOGY
Theoretical framework to learn entrepreneurship is based on Working as Entrepreneur module (15 ECTS).
This is learned through two main methods:
– eLearning: acquiring basic knowledge on establishing a company on an eLearning platform including entrepreneurial study material, guidance of students, assessment, and collecting feedback.
– creating street food pop-up restaurant for 2 days

Results and impact, longer-term benefits
RESULTS
The participating students will complete the following study modules:
o The students from the Vocational schools: Working as Entrepreneur module (15 ECTS)
o The students from the Universities of Applied Sciences: Managing Teams and Leading People (5 ECTS) and Business Startup (5 ECTS)

Project Website

https://perho.fi/hankkeet/kaynnissa-hankkeet/erasmus-taste-europe-on-the-go/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166054 Eur

Project Coordinator

Perho Liiketalousopisto Oy & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore ‘De Amicis’
• Mercuria kauppaoppilaitos Oy
• STICHTING BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
• Col·legi Badalonès, S.L.
• Istituto Professionale per i Servizi Alberghieri e della Ristorazione “Luigi Carnacina”
• HAAGA-HELIA AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• Estudis d’Hoteleria i Turisme CETT S.A.