The promotion of Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) at all age of life is a “worldwide” key point of public health strategy. Many EU and regional policies recognized nutrition as key element for all citizens’ AHA, in a lifelong care approach. WHO and evidence-based research point out that malnutrition should be tackled through an International common structured approach, based on the integration of different care levels and managed by inter-professional teams. In this context, a skilled public health workforce, delivering high-quality nutrition services in health care settings, is needed.NECTAR addresses a mismatch which has been identified between the skills currently offered by cooks and chefs working in Primary Food Care (PFC) and those actually demanded by healthcare institutions, private service providers and final end users in order to play a pivotal role in this context. Based on a “culinary/ clinical integrated approach”, NECTAR will deliver an EU Occupational Profile for Chef Gastro Engineering (CGE) and an EU Curriculum for the certification of this profile. CGE will be an innovative and pivotal figure in PFC, skilled on food management and kitchens coordination, addressing end-users need such as teste deteriorations/ alterations, personalizing recipes and cooking processes; CGE will be have the technical skills to use various ICT tools for older adults home monitoring and personalization of care.CGE Curriculum will be an European, innovative, learning outcome-oriented and modular one. Thanks to its flexibility and modularity, the Curriculum could be instantiated in national Curricula, considering local and contextual constraints. The Curriculum will be tested through 5 pilots courses delivered in Belgium, Portugal, Austria and Italy. NECTAR Alliance includes 12 partners from 4 Countries. The most of them have been collaborating since eight years in EIPonAHA about this topic and will provide sustainability and scaling-up to project results.
The project pursues the following objectives: To increase the specialization level of cooks and chefs working in PFC.To foster the development of curricula for specialized chefs in PFC referring to a formalized EU profile fitting the actual and current needs of PFC, defining a Chef Gastro-Engineering EU Occupational Profile and a EU CGE Curriculum.To enhance investments on specialised chefs in PFC providing recommendations and setting agreements.
The promotion of Active and Healthy Ageing at all age of life is a worldwide key point of public health strategy. Many EU and regional policies recognized nutrition as a key element for all citizens and high-quality nutrition services in health care settings, is needed. NECTAR addresses a mismatch which has been identified between the skills currently offered by cooks and chefs working in Primary Food Care and those demanded and provides tools to address the issue from practical solutions.
<< Background >> The promotion of Active and Healthy Ageing at all age of life is a worldwide key point of public health strategy. Many EU and regional policies recognized nutrition as a key element for all citizens and high-quality nutrition services in health care settings, is needed. NECTAR addresses a mismatch which has been identified between the skills currently offered by cooks and chefs working in Primary Food Care and those demanded and provides tools to address the issue from practical solutions. << Objectives >> The project pursues the following objectives: To increase the specialization level of cooks and chefs working in PFC.To foster the development of curricula for specialized chefs in PFC referring to a formalized EU profile fitting the actual and current needs of PFC, defining a Chef Gastro-Engineering EU Occupational Profile and a EU CGE Curriculum.To enhance investments on specialised chefs in PFC providing recommendations and setting agreements. << Implementation >> NECTAR delivered a EU Occupational Profile for Chef Gastro Engineering and a EU Curriculum for the certification of this profile. CGE is an innovative and pivotal figure in PFC, skilled on food management and kitchens coordination, addressing end-users need such as teste deteriorations. The CGE has the technical skills to use various ICT tools. The Curriculum was tested through 5 pilots courses delivered in Belgium, Portugal, Austria and Italy. << Results >> Based on a culinary/clinical integrated approach, NECTAR main results are:Defining the Occupational Profile for Chef-Gastro Engineering (CGE).Releasing a European Curriculum for Chef Gastro-Engineering (CGE) professionals.Producing tools and guidelines collected in a Designer’s Kit, which supports VET designer in the proper use of the CGE Curriculum.Developing an Educational Toolkit that has been set up on iMoox.Establishing a Network for Cooperation and Mobility formalised in a MOU.