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European Screening of Ideal Skills for food science and technology specialists towards food industry Prof.Mona Popa, Dr. Katherine Flynn USAMV Bucharest ROMANIA and SAFE Consortium Belgium International Symposium on Biotechnology, Bucharest

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European Screening of Ideal Skills for food science and technology specialists towards food industry

Prof.Mona Popa, Dr. Katherine Flynn USAMV Bucharest ROMANIA and SAFE Consortium Belgium

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Work Package 1 Assessment of Job Market Needs

Codes skills desired by European employers

  • f FSTs who participated in

BRAINSTORMING WORKSHOPS

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Context:

  • Food industry is the largest

manufacturing sector in Europe

  • Must have professionals with

appropriate skills

  • Track_Fast project aims to

identify training/career requirements of food scientists and technologists (FSTs)

  • implement a strategy to recruit the

FSTs

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Context:

Data collected will guide later phases of TrackFast :

  • Definition of Careers in FST
  • Continual Professional Training and

Career Development for FSTs

  • Motivation for Pursuit of a Career in

FST

  • Data will be available to FSTs and

their employers, to universities and training centers, to regulatory agencies

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Tools

In order to identify and define personal skills requirements in food job market for FSTs, 16 brainstorming workshops were we asked supervisors and managers during March 2010-Octomber 2011, in different countries, i.e.UK, France, Italy, Sweden,Greece, Belgium, Slovenia and Romania, to ‘brainstorm’ the ideal FST employee.

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Workshop organizing

  • an introduction by the local coordinator,
  • a presentation of the questionnaire results,
  • instructions/realisation for individual
  • brainstorming for ideal FST skills,
  • a networking/coffee break,
  • instructions/realisation for group

brainstorming

  • for when, where, and how ideal skills should

be obtained, a closing discussion.

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Skills of the ideal FST Sector

(gov’t, industry, research, other)

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Skills of the ideal ‘no degree’ FST Sector

(gov’t, industry, research, other)

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Skills of the ideal ‘low responsibility’ FST Sector

(gov’t, industry, research, other)

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Skills of the ideal ‘mid responsibility’ FST Sector

(gov’t, industry, research, other)

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Skills of the ideal ‘high responsibility’ FST Sector

(gov’t, industry, research, other)

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Sector

(gov’t, industry, research, other) __________

FST Level

(high, mid, low)

………

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Definition of brainstorming

  • a process of spontaneous

thinking, used by an individual

  • r by a group of people, to

generate numerous alternative ideas while deferring judgment (Alex Osborn’s book ‘Applied Imagination’ )

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The approach

  • The skills resulted as
  • utcomes in the first part of

the workshop were grouped because many skills are called different but they have the same meaning.

  • In the second part of the

workshop where and when the skills have been achieved…

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Brainstorming Workshop results

1) all of the ideal skills identified by workshop participants, along with the sector of the participant who suggested that skill 2) a subset of ideal skills for which the participants gave their ideas on when, where and how the skills should be

  • btained.

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Brainstorming Workshop results

  • 341 ideal skills only from

Bucharest ws (23 participants), but finally from 16 ws we collected more than 4213 ideal skills which were provided by 312 workshop participants.

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The approach

  • We adapted from

the Professional Development Portfolio Guide

  • f The Comission
  • n Dietetic

Registration, Chicago IL, USA.

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Results:

  • 11 categories of

skills

  • A shorter list of

skills under each category which have been improved after each additional brainstorming

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Major categories of skills

  • 1. Fundamental Skills
  • 2. Personal Management Skills
  • 3. Teamworking and Interpersonal Skills
  • 4. Business Skills
  • 5. Pedagogical Skills

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  • 6. Skills for Food Quality and Food Safety
  • 7. Skills for Research & Development
  • 8. Skills for Food Production and

Manufacturing

  • 9. Skills for Food Retail and the Supply

Chain

  • 10. Skills for Logistics
  • 11. Skills for Food Processing Sectors

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Major categories of skills

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Results:

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Section I. Non-sector specific skills

  • 1. Fundamental Skills

1.1. Communicating 1.2. Managing Information and computer literacy 1.3. Using Numbers 1.4. Thinking & Solving Problems 1.5. Providing Leadership 1.6. Managing Personnel

  • 2. Personal Management Skills

2.1. Demonstrating Positive Attitudes & Behaviours 2.2. Being Responsible 2.3. Being Adaptable 2.4. Learning Continuously 2.5. Working Safely 2.6. Improving own performance

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  • 3. Teamworking and interpersonal Skills

3.1. Working with Others 3.2. Participating in Projects & Tasks 3.3. Communicating with Others

  • 4. Business skills

4.1. Business Planning and strategic management 4.2. Sales and Marketing 4.3. Finance and resource management 4.4. Customer Service 4.5. Corporate social responsibility CSR 4.6. Entrepreneurship

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  • 5. Pedagogical skills

5.1. Learning & Assessment Section II. Sector non- specific skills

  • 6. Skills for food quality and food safety

6.1. Quality management, quality assurance and quality control 6.2. Food safety management, food hygiene and food safety control 6.3. Food legislation and control

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  • 8. Skills for Food Production and

manufacturing 8.1. Engineering Maintenance 8.2. Health, Safety and the Environment 8.3. Production Management 8.4. Production Operations 8.5. Cleaning and Preparation 8.6. Control Operations 8.7. Waste Disposal

  • 9. Skills for food retail and the supply chain

9.1. Food Retail 9.2. Goods Received and Storage 9.3. Supply to Production 9.4. Pick and Pack 9.5. Livestock Droving 9.6. Food service 9.7. Health and nutrition

  • 10. Skills for Logistics
  • 10. 1. Transportation
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Results:

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Section III. Sector specific skills

  • 11. Skills for food processing sectors

11.1. Meat and Poultry Processing - Preparation and Abattoirs 11.2. Meat and Poultry Processing - Production Butchery 11.3. Meat and Poultry Processing - Retail Butchery 11.4. Fish and Shellfish Processing 11.5. Dairy products 11.6. Brewing Production 11.7. Beer Packaging 11.8. Milling and Cereals 11.9. Dough and Dough Products 11.10. Flour Confectionery 11.11. Chocolate

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11.12. Sugar Confectionery 11.13. Winemaking 11.14. Canned Fruit and Vegetables 11.15. Crisps, Snacks and Nuts 11.16. Dietetic Food 11.17. Desserts 11.18. Frozen Food 11.19. Seasonings and Spice 11.20. Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices 11.21. Soups 11.22. Jams and marmalade 11.23. Tea and Coffee 11.24. Vegetarian food 11.25. Ready-to-eat meals

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COMMUNICATION SKILLS in research field with high responsibility

 University  Workshops, courses  Specialized training  Working place  Home, working place  IT network socialization When

  • Bachelor degree
  • Projects
  • Fellowships/ projects
  • Periodic reporting activity
  • Every day life, through self training
  • Every day life, through Face book,

audio/video conferences, blog, twitter, etc.

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Example – Bucharest WS

Where

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Example of most desired skills

1.1. Communicating 13 % 1.4. Thinking & solving problems 9 % 2.1. Demonstrating Positive Attitudes & Behaviours 9 % 2.2 Being responsible 7 % 7.1 Product development 7 %

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South North East Centr al % of responses thinking & solving problems communicating customer service

customer service

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Resea rch Other Indust ry Gov't % of responses communicating learning continuously beingresponsible

WSs Results interpretation

3 Most Desired Skills

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WSs Results interpretation

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FST 3 FST 2 FST 1

% of responses

learningcontinuously being responsibel working safely

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CONCLUSSIONS

Challenge:to try to link the work of different WPs of the project.... In order to design finally.....

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Perfect FST employee

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