“VET@HOME – Piloting Virtual Practical Trainings for Culinary Arts VET” was financed from the Erasmus+ fund, KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices: KA226 Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness, 2020-1-BG-01-KA226-VET-095185. VET@HOME was designed to create and pilot a standard unit-based syllabus model for virtual practical training courses (training practice) within the VET for the profession “Cook”. It allows the sustaining of vocational training in extreme circumstances as the one caused by the pandemic. The project introduced a new approach to the delivery of practical training courses leading to qualifications that were adapted for distance and blended-mode delivery, usage of alternative learning facilities and the new operational circumstances of the food-and-beverage sector across the EU. The approach is also applicable for disadvantaged learners who have difficulties to be present physically in the training premises on daily basis.

Project grant

EUR 140,963.00

Duration

01 March 2021 – 30 October 2023

Lead partner:

International College Ltd., Bulgaria

Project partners:

• ProAndi – Consultores Associados, Lda (ProAndi, Portugal)
• FORMACION Y ASESORES EN SELECCIÓN Y EMPLEO SL (FASE, Spain)
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (CDI, North Macedonia)
• Agency for VET and Adult Education (AVETAE, Croatia)
• Leantick Ltd., Bulgaria

Main objective:

The main VET@HOME objective was to strengthen the capacities of VET institutions to offer high-quality and inclusive digital education in culinary arts, adjusted to the work standards after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specific objectives:

• piloting a prepared 3-day course in Bulgaria, for VET students and teachers included in the project
• creating a teaching plan model for virtual VET training courses for Culinary Arts
• creating an online platform for virtual VET training courses for Culinary Arts
• create and inform VET stakeholders about using common protocols and guidelines for using virtual resources in teaching.

Target groups:

VET providers, mentors and teachers, mentors in firms, VET students and regulatory institutions for VET

Web site:

About – VET@HOME (vet-at-home.eu)