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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 Reference

2023-2-DE04-KA220-YOU-000175190

 

Lead partner 

Akademie Klausenhof gGmbH (Germania)

 

Programme

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

 

Ongoing project

 

Brief description

The project brings together 6 partners (2 from Germany, 1 from Hungary, 1 from Turkey, 1 from Slovenia and 1 from Italy) to prepare a specific training to respond to antidemocratic slogans and discourse. The training material will be freely accessible through a curriculum, a handbook, and an online self-learning tool (comic self-reflection stories).

 

The project outputs will be the result of the update of Klaus-Peter Hufer’s method “Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen” (Argumentation against populist slogans, widely used in Citizenship Education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in a European sense: the partners will make a European version of the training, by enriching it with Europe-specific topics, methods and inputs from the European partners. One of the partners is the University of Augsburg, where Klaus-Peter Hufer developed the training.

 

The project targets groups who are victims of verbal (and physical) attacks through populist, extremist, sexist and stereotypical arguments (migrants, Jews, people with disabilities, women, disadvantaged people, queer people) as well as topics that have become particularly relevant in recent years and are the focus of radical, verbal attacks and hate speech. These topics include: democracy and Europe, gender, climate change, sexual orientation and equality, science/health (vaccination), fake news and migration, war and humanism.

 

The material will serve as a basis for workshops and trainings conducted in the youth and school context, by educational institutions targeting youth. It will consider situations in the family and among friends, in public spaces and in leisure time, at school, in (political) discussions, in voluntary social or political engagement. There will also be a special focus on discussion forums in online media, especially in social networks.

 

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 have 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

 

Target groups

The target group of the workshops is primarily politically and socially interested and active young people from 13 to 30, who are to be strengthened in their civil courage in order to take effective action against radical arguments in everyday life online or in personal discussions.

 

Moreover, the project targets are:

  • Teachers/trainers in schools and youth (education) centres
  • Politically engaged young people
  • Activists and volunteers in youth movements / political parties
  • Employees of NGOs, initiatives, civil rights movements, with focus on youth
  • Stakeholders, scientists, politicians
  • General public


Objectives

  • Identifying and implementing core European values
  • Development of a training programme (curriculum) to train young people to argue effectively in discussions (offline and online) against anti-European statements.
  • Developing methods for raising awareness and communicating European values, through the collection and integration of proven methods for argumentation training and comparable approaches.
  • Defending fundamental values and rights.
  • Recognising violations of fundamental values, by developing methods to identify anti-European values, especially in oral discussion and dialogue situations and in the digital space.
  • Encouraging reflection on one’s own commitment to fundamental values and avoid using stereotypical arguments and behaviour.
  • Use stories/scenarios with a high identification potential to question and evaluate one’s own behaviour.

 

Partnership

Lead Partner: Akademie Klausenhof, Germany (adult/youth education provider)

Other Partners:

University of Augsburg, Germany

InEuropa srl, Italy

KatHaz, Hungary

Doga School, Turkey

Socialna Akademija, Slovenia

 

Duration

24 months (from 01/03/2023 to 28/02/2026)

 

EU grant

250,000 total grant

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