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GoodFood – Sustainability in Catering Schools

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Agreement Number: 2024-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000248007

Program and Call

KA220 VET – Cooperation partnership in vocational education and training (VET)
Call 2024, round 1

The project: objectives and results

Food is one of the central issues in the climate change agenda. It has become increasingly evident that for production and distribution to evolve in a sustainable direction, food choices must also become more conscious. Markets are also beginning to change: consumers in the food industry are becoming more sensitive to the ethical and environmental implications of their behaviors, and food service companies need professionals ready to respond to these needs. It is critical that future industry professionals are fully aware of the importance of their choices and that they acquire sustainable habits and bring them into the workplace.

For this reason, GoodFood aims to create resources and educational materials that help hospitality schools in the sustainable training of future chefs. The goal is to help students develop sustainable habits that they can apply not only in school, but also in their future workplaces, through building specific knowledge and skills, as well as implementing real sustainability action. GoodFood aims to help students become active members of society, contributing to the equitable and sustainable development of their communities.

The partnership includes 4 members of the international sustainability network Global Action Plan International (already part of the Erasmus+ Foodtalks project dedicated to canteen sustainability), 3 hospitality schools from Spain, the Netherlands and Germany, and an Italian foundation that is very active in the field of food sustainability that will also help reach out to some Italian hospitality schools.

 

Project outcomes include:

– a methodological framework applicable in any European hospitality and catering school;

– a framework of actions dedicated to hospitality schools, replicable in any European school;

– an online platform with training content on health, environment, social justice and economy (manuals, questionnaires and other resources);

– online tools based on the train-the-trainer method, focusing on empowerment, behavioral change, and conscious choices in terms of environmental and social impacts;

– case studies related to hospitality schools in each partner country that can serve as inspiration for other schools.

 

Target groups:

Direct target:

– Students

Through the project, they will learn how to integrate sustainable habits into their activities at school, in extracurricular projects and in the future workplace.

– Teachers

GoodFood will support them in enriching their curriculum through the exploration of topics such as empowerment, behavioral change and conscious choice, with a critical approach aimed at addressing food issues holistically.

– School organization

The project will also assist leaders and staff in developing strategies and perspectives based on an equitable and sustainable food system that can overcome existing barriers and support students’ educational experience.

– Companies in the food service industry (not only restaurants, but also hotels), directly affected as hosts of trainees from hotel schools and future jobs for female students. It will be here that students will put into practice the sustainable knowledge gained in school.

 

Indirect target:

– Local stakeholders active in terms of sustainable development

They will become the hotel schools’ natural partners through concrete actions, specific projects and targeted partnerships.

– Food suppliers of the school system (local producers and distributors)

They will be invited to participate directly in the school’s sustainable path.

– Families 

Students, teachers and managers will be their reference points for sustainable food habits.

 

Project phases:

Programme development (methodology, content and platform)                                                                              

  • Stakeholders engagement
  • Design and development of contents
  • Design and development of the online platform
  • LTTA Transnational meeting

 

Implementation and evaluation

  • Contents’ testing and workshop
  • Implementation of the materials at national level in the 4 countries
  • Evaluation

 

Project leader:

agado Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung UG (Germany)

 

Partnership: 

  • Stichting Global Action Plan Nederland (Netherlands)
  • InEuropa SRL (Italy)
  • ASOCIACION PLAN DE ACCION GLOBAL PARA LA TIERRA GAP ESPANA (Spain)
  • Berufsschulzentrum Ansbach-Triesdorf (Germany)
  • Fondazione Castello di Padernello (Italy)
  • IES ESCUELA DE HOSTELERIA DE LEIOA BHI (Spain)
  • Stichting Regionaal Onderwijs Centrum Noord-Oost Brabant (Netherlands)

 

Duration

24 months (1st December 2024-30th November 2026)

 

Budget

400,000 €

STAND UP FOR EUROPE!

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Project title
Stand up for Europe! Argumentation training against undemocratic slogans: European extension and updating

Project Number
2023-2-DE04-KA220-YOU-000175190 

Lead partner 
Akademie Klausenhof gGmbH (Germania)

Programme and call
Erasmus+ – KA2 Cooperation partnerships in Youth (KA220-YOU), Call for Proposals 2023

 

About the project

Brief description

The project stems from the collaboration of 6 partners (2 from Germany, 1 from Hungary, 1 from Turkey, 1 from Slovenia and InEuropa from Italy) for the creation of practical and theoretical materials for the development of training and facilitations activities and workshops for young people aged from 13 to 30 on thematic linked to democracy and European values. Specifically, the training materials will be the starting point for learning how to respond to antidemocratic slogans and discourse in a constructive way.

The training material will be freely accessible through a theoretical guide and a practical manual, a handbook of Good Practices on how to implement and promote common European values in their respective national contexts, and an online self-learning tool (short videos) to reflect and to activate the critical thinking and the peer-to-peer confrontation. Project materials are available on InEuropa website and on the official website in Italian, English and in the partners’ languages (German, Turkish, Slovenian, and Hungarian).

The main goal of the proposed activities is to provide resources to react in a proper way to antidemocratic and populist slogans that relate to daily situations with family, friends, at school, in public spaces, etc.

STAND UP FOR EUROPE! will mainly focus on:

  • Values and Identity
  • Dilemmas and Conflicts
  • Antidemocratic Slogans
  • Power, Privilege and Discrimination

The materials constitute the evolution and the update of the Klaus-Peter Hufer method – “Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen “(Argumentation training against populists’ slogans) in a European sense, widely used in Citizenship Education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, enriched with topics, methods, and contributions specific to Europe thanks to the collaboration and contribution of the six project partners.


Target groups

The project is aimed at teachers, educators, and trainers enabling them to provide the young people and young adults they work with on a daily basis the resources to respond critically and constructively to hateful, anti-democratic, and populist attitudes, verbal (and physical) attacks, and populist, extremist, sexist, and stereotypical arguments (against migrants, Jews, people with disabilities, women, disadvantaged people, and queer people). 

It is also aimed at:

– Activists and volunteers in youth movements/political parties

– Employees of NGOs, initiatives, and civil rights movements, with a particular focus on young people 

– Stakeholders and politicians 

– Anyone involved in youth education

 

Through STAND UP FOR EUROPE! we want to:

  • Spread awareness of European values and strengthen respect for them
  • Develop a training program aimed at preparing young people to respond effectively to populist, anti-European, and discriminatory arguments, both online and offline.
  • Develop a method for spreading awareness of European values and their protection through the collection, comparison, and integration of effective training methodologies.
  • Defend human rights.
  • Contribute to the recognition of violations of fundamental European values through an effective training tool for use in digital contexts, oral discussions, and everyday scenarios.
  • Encourage personal reflection on respect for fundamental values and raise awareness of the use of stereotypical and discriminatory arguments and behaviors.
  • Stimulate self-assessment through the use of scenarios with which it is easy to identify.

 

What is Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen?

Stammtischparolen are populist statements and slogans with which numerous groups of people (often social minorities, but also representatives of the “elites”) are discriminated against. Usually, they are also directed against “the” European policy. These slogans are dogmatic, rigid and prejudice-based: in these speeches, there are very strict categories (“we” and “they”), which defend their positions aggressively and with an exclusionary attitude. 

Professor Dr. Klaus-Peter Hufer is a trainer, a lecturer, an author and scientist. He himself works as an adult educator and as an applied professor. His Argumentation training* teaches effective techniques and tricks for responding to populist slogans in conversations (e.g. with facts, irony, critical inquiries, etc.). In its interactive form, the argumentation training offers the opportunity to try out and experience in exchange with the seminar group how to react appropriately to such slogans. Hufer’s training has been frequently used in educational work for many years, also in youth education or in training for employees and volunteers of NGOs and other institutions, parties, companies, schools and organizations. 

* Klaus-Peter Hufer: Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen. Materialien und Anleitungen für Bildungsarbeit und Selbstlernen. 10.  Auflage 2018, 120 Seiten, Wochenschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

 

Partnership

University of Augsburg, Germany 

InEuropa srl, Italy

KatHaz, Hungary 

Doga School, Turkey 

Socialna Akademija, Slovenia

 

Duration
24 months (from 01/03/2024 to 28/02/2026) 

Total Budget
€ 250.000

SHINE – mainstreaming Systems tHinking In Natural sciences and Environmental education

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SHINE – mainstreaming Systems tHinking In Natural sciences and Environmental education

Agreement number: 2023-1-DE03-KA220-SCH-000158255

Program and Call

ERASMUS PLUS – Call 2023 Round 1 KA2

KA220- SCH – Cooperation partnerships in School Education

Ongoing project

Short description

Education for sustainable development gives learners of all ages the knowledge, skills, values and agency to address interconnected global challenges including climate change. The call for teachers is to develop strategies, tools and methodologies to achieve such key competencies to address the required complexity. Managing and solving sustainability problems require people with systemic competences who are able to see the whole in the individual, presenting a breadth of vision for a complex world. Since Systems Thinking (ST) is one of the key competencies in the education for sustainable development, it is crucial to train in-service teachers on the ST approach to give them the possibility to implement ST at school in science education classes. The SHINE project aims at bringing the ST approach in Natural Science education involving in-service teachers and students in the target age of 8-16 years old. SHINE aims at introducing the ST approach at school by training in-service teachers and by developing, validating and testing innovative didactic tools to effectively introduce and practice ST with students in natural science and ecology education. ST offers a new language in understanding how the world works, it enables students to see the parts of the whole and the network of relationships simultaneously, and consequently it tries to reveal the structure that creates change by questioning how events occur over time.

Objectives

SHINE’s overall objective is to prepare future citizens to face climate change challenges by promoting the introduction and mainstream of ST skills in natural science education. To reach this objective, SHINE sets 5 specific sub-objectives:

  1. Educate in-service teachers on ST principles and how to apply them in natural science;
  2. Support students in developing ST approach by introducing game-based learning and innovative didactics approach in science education;
  3. Sustain scientific skills and the deep learning of complex topics such as ecosystems and climate change;
  4. Promote collaboration among different school grades (8-16 y.o.)

Main activities

–  Development of a training course for in-service teachers replicated in each partner’s country and involving at least 25 natural science teachers.

– Design of a serious game (digital/board with different levels of difficulties accordingly with target age) to support students in practicing and experimenting ST applied to climate change issues.

– Creation of a digital toolkit containing specific didactic modules to introduce ST at school in natural science classes, assessment tools to evaluate the students’ improvement in ST reasoning in a long term perspective;

– Organisation of a set of digital and in-person transnational events to boost both students and teachers from partners’ countries to cooperate in understanding and finding possible common answers to the climate change effects occurring now and in a future perspective.

Expected results

  • Effectively supporting teachers in implementing and assessing ST at school with students of different ages by training them on the approach and co-producing specific didactic tools.
  • Applying ST in natural science and sustainability disciplines for assessing the student’s progress in a long-time perspective.
  • Enhancing the promotion of more engaging didactics and boosting the active involvement of students by cooperation “inter pares”
  • Facilitating and mainstream the introduction of ST into education as a way to deepen science principles and especially as a lens for understanding problems such as climate change and environment protection.

Coordinator

Hochschule RheinMain (DE)

Partnership

– InEuropa Srl (IT)

– Libera Università di Bolzano (IT)

– Tallin University (EE)

– Virtual Campus Lda (PT)

Duration

The project will last 36 months (1st October 2023 – 30th September 2026)

Budget

The grant is € 400.000,00