Training 4 sustainable Food system development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Training 4 sustainable Food system development

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 2017

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The European Erasmus+ project « Training for Sustainable Food Systems Development – T4F » aimed at developing professional trainings based on the development of “green skills” in the food sector, in order to increase the number of jobs linked with an ecological, sustainable and inclusive transition.

Nowadays, the food issue represents a European and International challenge. The food system has a strong impact on the environment: it is the sector with the highest demand of water. A great part of the production is lost and transformed in waste. While the population is growing, the purchasing power of numerous citizens is reduced by the economic and social crisis, and in a context of climatic emergency implying a successful ecological transition and a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, T4F wants to participate and support the transition as a creator of new jobs.

The target group of the project includes those workers or VET-students, who are part of the food chain management, who intend to develop an expertise in implementing and promoting food value chains in their own working sectors, according to their professional specificities. Developing sustainable skills – or green skills – means integrating societal and environmental issues and concerns into vocational training in the food sector.

Led by a Belgian (POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ-PLS, Diesis.Coop, For.e.t), Italian (Fondazione Triulza, UCMed) and Spanish (Koan Consulting, ESHOB) partnership, the T4F project made it possible to :
-Make an analysis of the current situation of sustainable food training in Europe and define on this basis the T4F training framework.
-Define a learning program for learners.
-Develop a methodological guide for trainers to help them to implement the learning program.
-Create an assessment tool for systematic collection and analysis of information to improve the students’ learning. This tool can assess learners’ knowledge before and after the training.
-Develop interactive manuals for each of the three tools mentioned above in order to sustain and disseminate our training.
-Organize a training week in Sorrento where Belgian, Spanish and Italian trainees and trainers were able to exchange ideas on the different ways of learning and cooking, and to discover the T4F training.
-Organize 6 events to disseminate the results of the project and to promote T4F training.
-Disseminate information in order to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge on the future transformations of the professional food sector, in particular via a website (www.trainingforfood.eu), a Youtube channel (https://bit.ly/2RrBRF4) and social networks.
-Co-construct, with the T4F partnership and stakeholders, policy recommendations for public authorities in order to tackle the issue of training for sustainable food!

Currently, 6 training centers (excluding the T4F VET partners) have already integrated the training into their programs; 83 training centers outside of the project approached T4F partners for information on training; 181 students received the training in their own countries; and 11 trainees and 3 teachers went to Sorrento to attend a week of training where they have learned about sustainability and the Mediterranean diet. Considering the reception of the Horeca sector, the results of the communication campaign and the feedback from the participants at our various events, the T4F project is definitely a great success!

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219448,34 Eur

Project Coordinator

POUR LA SOLIDARITE ASBL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• FOR.E.T.
• DIESIS COOP
• KOAN CONSULTING SL
• Fondazione Triulza
• Università della Cucina Mediterranea
• FUNDACIÓN PRIVADA ESCOLA DE RESTAURACIÓ I HOSTALERIA DE BARCELONA