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Integration of good practices and new methods for professional training in the field of herbs processing for food and food supplements
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The main objective of the project is to educate, train, inform and disseminate the latest/new scientific evidences, legislation in force, hygienic rules as well as the best manufacturing practices of herbs in order to ensure the quality, safety, nutritive and functional quality of herbs useful for food and food supplements industries. In this way it will be increased the opportunities of professional development and improved the professional competence, cooperation and competitiveness. 5 partners, 3 from Western and 2 from Eastern Europe with expertize in herbal food processing (spices, natural food ingredients and food supplements) but also in teaching, training, dissemination and knowledge transfer will work together for developing a training kit in the field of an emergency request by the food industry employees and also by the policy makers. A cooperation of 2 university, 1 food research institute and 2 associations with the main activity research and technology and knowledge transfer, putting together their expertize for implementation the project activities is one the big impact for the partners benefit. In order to have the best audience and the most appropriate learning/teaching approach there will be taken into account the following specific objectives: finding the existing best practices in training/learning and analysis the actual context in those 3 domains; stimulation of adult interest and motivation for continuous learning; training adapting curriculum to different audience categories; using the creative thinking of trainers for courses design and deliver of teaching; facilitating of adult learners to participate to collaborative learning and practical demonstration, as well as the new learning opportunities; delivering accessible, interesting and attractive training; development of the new competences. The target groups envisaged are adult learners , VET students, professors, teachers, trainers and educational and administrative staff employed at participating organizations. One of the first activities are the Analysis of actual context in the field of herbs processing and Inventory of the best and innovative training/learning/teaching practices which will have the same approach: to collect data. An integrated report will be done from bringing information from all country reports. The summary with the conclusions will be extracted, posted on the website and published. The next activity, Developing a common route of the 80 hours curriculum on herbs processing,will be followed by the adaptation/reviewed of the curriculum after receiving 100 questionnaires filled in by participant countries from different interested stakeholders. Further, a half a day workshop on ECVET procedures and modalities will be organized by Spanish partners to follow it when the module is developed. Developing a training guide is the next activity which will accompany the course. The training guide is addressed to trainers who are people working in participant organizations. From the kit package a demonstrative movie will be the third part which will be done in partner organizations laboratories or pilot plants. Developing an e-Good Herbs Platform which will comprise the course, training guide and demonstrative movie and will be developed on the project website. Piloting the curriculum before and after feed back will be checked the functionality of the training curriculum both through conventional and e-platform. 55 adults learners will be trained by each organization, in total 275 people, including 50 trainers during 5 days Intensive Study Programs for learners in Spain and in Romania. A Meeting for policy recommendations and a Project Sustainability meeting are 2 half a day meetings in order to better disseminate the outputs of the project and to identify the activities that will be done in order to have the appropriate project sustainability. 2 Conferences will be organized in Spain and in Romania for project results dissemination but also for defining the sustainability of the project. 80 people will be invited to participate. Concerning the management activities, 5 transnational meetings will be organized in order to assess the progress of the work and to organize the next activities.
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