Erasmus+ Project No. 2020-1-RO01-KA202-080164  Connecting ICT solutions with circular food to lay a path for sustainability (CE4FOOD)

New CE4Food European Project fosters food waste awareness within the scope of Circular Economy

This new European transnational project started on the first of November 2020 and will be carried out over the upcoming 24 months. It is being developed by experienced partners from Lithuania, Greece, Romania, Scotland and Spain.

The CE4Food project, aimed at the hospitality industry, is co-funded by the European Union and is aligned with the EU’s plan for a Circular Economy. It intends to fill a gap detected in food waste management practices, promoting global awareness and fostering a Circular Economy mindset within the food sector and its different and diverse stakeholders.

Food and how it is consumed goes beyond cultural values and behaviours. It has a significant impact on the environment. Currently, food waste is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Every year, about 88 million tonnes of food are wasted across Europe, at a cost of €143 billion. 70 percent of global waste comes from food service, retail, and households. Kitchen staff, therefore, may certainly become key in the process of waste minimization.

CE4Food will produce and develop an e-Platform with extensive resources on food waste management for VET educators, a digitally interactive food waste canvas and simulator tools, which VET providers may utilise with students in the workplace, as well as storytelling-based case studies in Augmented Reality (AR) as examples of good food waste management practices.

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For more information, please visit the CE4FOOD website.

Erasmus+ Project No. 2021-1-CZ01-KA220-VET-000033007   EuropeAn 3d printinG poLymer opErators (EAGLE)

The development of a brand-new AM Polymer Operator harmonized curriculum aligned with industry and constantly updated on a regular basis, is a priority in current times. The EAGLE project will tackle the adversities previously identified with the development of a brand-new harmonized training curriculum for AM Polymer Operators.

The EU Additive manufacturing industry is increasingly expanding, resulting in the creation of new positions that necessitate the acquisition of new skills and qualifications. For the next 24 months the primary goals of the EAGLE project are to develop novel curricula, course training materials, and an e-platform centered on the idea of innovative learning and unified standard creation. These resources will provide adults with a benchmark measure, and they will be free and available to the public. The project aim is also closely tied to the betterment of the skills mismatch and is addresses the creation of a wide standard of qualification from which will in the end benefit the industrial labor market.

The project expects a powerful impact on the applicants, participating organisations, target groups and other relevant stakeholders. The partners will work hard to ensure that EAGLE project activities and results lead to a significant increase in the number of VET graduates with suitable 3D printing skills and knowledge that enter the job market, thus supporting the European economic growth and contributing to a better society. Impact on the participants: - increased knowledge on 3D printing technology - acquisition of 3D printing skills and knowledge relevant for the European job market needs - improved multicultural and communication skills.

Observing, shadowing and discussing work with colleagues will represent the most important measure for transfer and acquisition of knowledge.

The project will be implemented in the Czech Republic, Romania, Belgium and Hungary.

You can visit ewf.be for more information.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Erasmus+: 2021-1-CZ01-KA220-VET-000033007

Erasmus Project No. 2021-1-MT01-KA220-VET-000025011   Virtual & Augmented Reality Trainers Toolbox to foster Low Carbon Tourism & Related Entrepreneurship

7 European partners working together to foster Low Carbon Tourism

The VINCI project thus aims to foster a shift towards low carbon tourism (LCT) and foster related entrepreneurship across a number of EU Member States. To do so, the VINCI project brings together a number of partners from across Europe, purposely chosen in such a way to ensure a good mix and balance between experts in Climate Change/Sustainability, Tourism, Entrepreneurship, work-based training, VET Curriculum development/pedagogy and digital technologies (AR/VR and m- / e-Learning). In addition, given tourism and related economic activities vary across Europe’s Geographic spread, the VINCI consortium brings together partners from Northern Europe down to the very South. Together, these VINCI partners have thus set the following objectives to help reach the overall project aim: OB1: development of an innovative curriculum to help fosters low carbon tourism activities and amplify related entrepreneurship; OB2: raising awareness through 'best practice' case-studies of how tourism stakeholders can generate less CO2 emissions in all three phases of travel tourism; OB3: develop a set of modular training resources on low carbon tourism activities and related entrepreneurship, some of which will be Augmented and/or Virtual Reality based to better engage learners; OB4: development of the VINCI Toolbox consisting of a repository of digital training resources on LCT, including an m-/e-Learning platform to help stakeholders acquire skills on LCT even at their place of work & home; OB5: development of a Trainer's Guide e-book intended to recommend to VET trainers, specific training units and/or training styles relevant to different tourism sector stakeholders; OB6: to disseminate in both the partner countries and other EU Member States, awareness on the concept of LCT as well as the VINCI project results that can exploited by the project's target groups that includes VET trainers/tourism mentors, VET learners as well as tourism sector stakeholders including entrepreneurs.

On completion, the VINCI project will deliver the following key results (R):

• R1: An Innovative Curriculum To Foster knowledge on Low Carbon Tourism concepts and amplify related entrepreneurship;
• R2: A Set of Twelve AR/VR Enhanced Case-studies of how stakeholders can generate less CO2 emissions in all three travel phases involved in the tourism sector;
• R3: The VINCI 'Low Carbon Tourism and related Entrepreneurship' Digital VET Toolbox;
• R4: The VINCI Trainers Guide e-Book on Low Carbon Tourism and related Entrepreneurship.

The VINCI project partners have been chosen in such a way as to ensure a good balance between experts in adult pedagogy, tourism, climate change, work-based training, curriculum development, augmented/virtual reality  as well as  partners with a strong link to the tourism sector.  VINCI thus brings together a number of European entities ranging from HEI Training Institutions, Eco Tourism Research institutes, private digital technology service providers and  toursim stakeholders to collectively develop the VINCI toolkit, targeted at providing training resources that will help foster low carbon tourism in Europe.

• MACDAC ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY BUREAU LTD - MECB, Malta
• INSTITUTE OF TOURISM STUDIES, Malta
• Institut za turizam, Croatia
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI, centrul CAMIS, Romania
• Social Cooperative Enterprise Drosostalida, Greece
• Institut pro regionální rozvoj, o.p.s., Czech Republic
• SIHTASUTUS STOCKHOLMI KESKKONNAINSTITUUDI TALLINNA KESKUS, Estonia

For more information please visit the project website at https://eumecb.com/vinci/.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Erasmus+: 2021-1-MT01-KA220-VET-000025011

Erasmus Project No. 2021-1-MT01-KA220-VET-000025011   Virtual & Augmented Reality Trainers Toolbox to foster Low Carbon Tourism & Related Entrepreneurship

INVITATIE Eveniment Multiplicare

VINCI: Un proiect de parteneriat strategic al UE pentru promovarea turismului cu emisii reduse de carbon și antreprenoriatului asociat  

Universitatea Nationala de Stiinta si Tehnologie POLITEHNICA Bucuresti, in parteneriat cu Camera de Comert si Industrie Bistrita-Nasaud, va invita sa luati parte la evenimentul de final al proiectului VINCI - Virtual and Augmented Reality Trainers Toolbox to foster low carbon tourism and related entrepreneurship.

Acesta va avea loc in data de 16.11.2023, in incinta Hotelului Ozana, Bistrita, jud. Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania, incepand cu orele 11.

In cadrul acestui eveniment vor fi prezentate pe larg rezultatele finale ale proiectului (setul de instrumente/materiale digitale realizate format din curriculum inovator VINCI, studii de caz cu realitate augmentata, set digital de isntrument VET, ghidul formatorului VINCI). Personalul implicat in proiect va prezenta de asemenea aplicatii practice realitate augmentata (studii de caz) realizate de consortiul proiectului si de realitate virtuala.

Proiectul VINCI, coordonat de organizația malteză MECB Ltd, răspunde nevoii de instruire în domeniul LCT, contribuind în același timp la creșterea gradului de conștientizare și cunoaștere cu privire la astfel de activități turistice. Rezultatele proiectului, pot fi folosite gratuit de către grupurile țintă ale proiectului, care includ formatori VET/mentori din turism, cursanți VET, precum și părți interesate din sectorul turismului, inclusiv antreprenori.

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Erasmus+: 2021-1-MT01-KA220-VET-000025011