Better bakers ready for an European market

Project summary

Nowadays technology has changed so much that no matter which bakery you enter, Italian one, Greek or Turkish, it looks absolutely the same. There are several bakery equipment manufactors in Europe and all the bakeries buy their equipment from them. On the other side the training in the domain of bakery has not changed in all European countries and by training we mean curricula, the programme, the methods, the contain of the curricula chapters and the training of the trainers. According to the bakeries and bakery equipment manufactor, bakers in today's bakeries need more IT skills and competences because the most of the work is done by the mashines, which they need to know how to operate. With the same problem confronted our partners from Latvia and Slovenia, while Italian Greek and Turkish partner consider they can use improvements to make their curricula more interactive antd attractive to the trainees and to increase the numbers of employement in their area. The innovative component of our project is that we will work on improving the curricula for bakers vocational training, working together with representatives of the actual employers and manufactors of bakery technology on international level making possible for trainees to get a qualification useful and good enough on European labour market. Another new approach of the bakery curricula will be very much enriched ICT component which the employers value so much in todays workers. And eventually by improving the curricula we intend to help our trainees to get better skills and competences in bakery profession, increasing their chances to get a job and decreasing the numbers of the unemployement which is the most common problem in all partners areas. The main objectives of this project are: 1- to improve the curricula of the bakers qualification course in accordance to new technology and to the direct requirements of the bakeries. 2- to improve bakers skills and competences by making the curricula closer to the requirements of the employers. 3 - to improve skills and competences of the trainers in Bakery domain. Result: at least 25 trainers participating at the practical stage 4 - to encrease chances of the trainees to get employed by offering them quality training 5 - to develope partnerships and working agreements between training providers and actors on the labour market (bakeries, in our case). By creating partnerships between training providers and bakeries as actors on the labour markets, we will make the improvements functional and benefic not only for trainees but also for those who are going to benefit from their better qualification, the employers. With the help of these objectives our project will contribute to reach the objectives of the Strategy Europe 2020 to raise the level of the competences and skills in vocational training, to increase the level of the employement and to encourage innovation. The target group will be composed by trainers in the domain of bakery, unqualified employees of the bakeries, people in risk to get unemployed, but also vocational school graduators who want to get a qualification in bakery. The outputs of the project: - 1 improved curricula for the bakers qualification course in 7 different European countries - 1 Research in comparison of the curricular of all partner countries - 1 methodology for trainers how to teach using the new technological equipments in bakery - 1 miniguide for trainees about modern equipments used in bakeries The methodology we intend to apply will be divided into the following stages: 1. Preparing the activities 2. Implementation Stage 3. Monitorization stage 4. Evaluation stage 5. Dissemination stage 6. Sustainability stage Each of these stages will have a detailed plan with the procedures, deadlines, responsible, places, budget allocated, approved decisions. The expected impact on those who will take part in this project will be: - improve the knowledge of the trainers about the partner countries curricula - enrich their knowledge about the equipments used in bakeries nowadays - improve their skills and competences as the trainers in the domain of bakery - lead to the improvement of their methodical level - the improvement of the curricula and the trainers skill will eventually lead to the improvements of the trainees skills and competences - improvement of trainees skills will lead to encreasing possibilities for them to find a good job in the domain - also their better skills will make employers satisfied with their work and help them to mentain found jobs - and finally all this wil lead to the descreasing of the number of unemployement people, situation which is the main problem in all partner organizations areas