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Food Training Centre with +20 years of experience and +1.000 students every year is looking to take part in KA2 Erasmus + proposals

Country of Origin: Spain
Reference Number: TOES20210505001
Publication Date: 5 May 2021

Summary

Spanish Food Training Centre with +20 years of experience and +1.000 students every year (active workers, unemployed, graduate students, including vulnerable community) is looking to take part in KA2 Erasmus + consortia. The centre owns a 500 sqm Food Pilot Plant where hands-on sessions take place. This Pilot Plant reproduces the environment of a Food SME, so it is an ideal place for training worker skills in a relevant industrial setting. Research cooperation is sought.

Description

A Spanish training centre specialised in food technology offers its expertise and know-how to organisations preparing proposals to KA2 Erasmus + programme.

The main goal of the organisation is to prepare the workforce to the different skills required by the Food industry, as well as update the skills of the active workers for their alignment with current needs and future scenarios in the industry (as Digitalization and Sustainability topics). Main training topics could be classified in i) Processing and production; ii) Food Quality; iii) Hygiene and Food Safety; and iv) Food lab. In relation to the training of unemployed people, the organisation delivers different Professional Certificates (Meat and Dairy industry, Preserves, Auxiliary operations,  ..), DUAL programmes, with practical training working directly in a Food SME, also manage practices in companies as well as a job listing. For active workers, it provides tailored educational programmes for companies, open courses series as well as technical seminars. So, the organisation owns large experience on Food training, possess huge know-how and educational materials that want to share and expand through EU using the KA2 Erasmus + programme by means of research cooperation agreements.

Advantages and Innovations

•	+20 years of experience in Food training.

•	A good volume of students.

•	The Food Pilot Plant as a relevant industrial setting for upskilling and practical training.

•	Permanent connection with the Food SMEs and evaluation of their training needs, taking also into consideration new Food trends

•	ISO 9001 certification and EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) label.

•	Apart from a training centre, the organisation is also a Food Technology Centre and a Cluster (with 100 industrial members). So, technology, innovation and education are combined under the same “roof”

•	Good connections with University, VET (Vocational Education and Training) and public employment services and employer federations.

Stage Of Development

Proposal under development

Requested partner

The Spanish training centre is looking for Coordinators of KA2 Erasmus+ proposals. They offer their expertise and know-how in the food sector to contribute to the proposals.