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ttz Bremerhaven Fischkai 1 D-27572 Bremerhaven (Germany) TRAINING TO DISSEMINATORS AND INCORPORATORS AGENTS Title of the project - In_Food Quality - 2008-1-PT1-LEO05-00412 3-09-2009 LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME - TRANSFER OF INNOVATION LEONARDO DA VINCI Nome | Rui Vieito| EPRALIMA – Escola Profissional do Alto Lima, C.I.P.R.L. – Portugal – Arcos de Valdevez

IQA - INNOVATE TO FOOD QUALITY Period: 2004-2007 Financed for: EQUAL www.iqa.com.pt Producers: EPRALIMA – Escola Profissional do Alto Lima – Arcos de Valdevez – Portugal ESTG-IPVC – Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo ACIAB – Associação Comercial e Indústrial de Arcos de Valdevez e Ponte da Barca USVC/CGTP-IN - União dos Sindicatos de Viana do Castelo/Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses – Intersindical Nacional

THE PROJECT IQA - INNOVATE TO FOOD QUALITY IQA is a project developed within the programme Equal, inserted on the field of business‟ intervention, modernisation and innovation. This project aims to find a solution for enterprises related to: • Food Hygiene and Safety (FHS); • The existing culture, which has no vocation to the questions concerned with this topic; • Lack of information about FHS; • Lack of knowledge about the situation on matters of FHS by the leaders and responsible of enterprises; • Poor preparation on human resources; • Organisational and informal culture adverse to the FHS practices.

GENERAL IDEA - IQA Structural and FS operator organizational awareness Diagnostic and changes self-diagnostic Work context activities training Leaders and workers Assisted implementation with coaching process Company Consumer safety valorisation

THE IQA STRATEGY IS BASED ON THREE MAIN PHASES: IQA’s intervention is held by an integrated strategy 1. Training sessions in FHS; 1.1. Training sessions to the leaders/responsibles in FHS; 1.2. Training sessions to the collaborators - food handlers. 2. Coaching Process to provide responsibles/leaders with the necessary competencies, achieving the company‟s objectives related to FHS . 3. Recognition of companies with “Safe Food” stamp .

THE IQA STRATEGY Present State + Resources = Desired State. Present state Difficulties abiding by FS laws + Resources.... Goal General comprehension of the dynamics of the Initial coaching training coaching procedure and its application in the project Offer relevant information about FS to businessmen FS technical training for leaders Offer relevant information about FS to collaborators FS technical training for collaborators Help put into practice acquired knowledge during Coaching procedure training; help on the organizational change Specialized help to detect specific changes to be made, according to the beneficiary organizations line Specialized counselling of work; = Desired state Achievement of overall FS requirements

THE IQA STRATEGY FHS – Pedagogical Kit Consultancy Coaching Process Safety Food Stamp

FROM THIS PROJECT TWO PRODUCTS AROUSE: 1. A “Pedagogical Kit”; The “Pedagogical Kit” is composed by the following instruments: – A Training Manual of FHS and the resources connected to it (pedagogical games, videos, activities, etc.); – A narrative of construction and implementation practices for training; – A methodological guide to support the training‟s implementation. 1. The stamp: “Safe Food”. The product “Safe Food” stamp aims to be a reward to all the enterprises that meet the FHS requirements established by the project.

IQA - PRODUCTS Guide for the Implementation of the Pedagogical Kit Narrative of practices Training manuals on FHS for leaders/ dept. heads Pedagogical Kit” Training manuals on FHS for collaborators (food handlers)

THE COACHING IN MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES ON THE FOOD AREA Coaching Process Support on the practical implementation of acquired knowledge in training; support in organizational change. Turn the responsible for the unit capable of implementing in his own company Food Safety and Hygiene. Specialized Consultancy Specialized support on the detection of specific changes to be made, depending on the work area of the beneficiaries.

IQA - PRODUCTS • Regulation • Verification List • Inspection Commission The stamp: “Safe Food”

THE IN_FOOD QUALITY PROJECT In_Food Quality - 2008-1-PT1-LEO05-00412 LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME - TRANSFER OF INNOVATION LEONARDO DA VINCI

PROGRAMME OPERATIONAL - LEONARDO DA VINCI TRANSFER OF INNOVATION

PROGRAMME LEONARDO DA VINCI GENERAL OBJECTIVES • To support participants in training and further training activities in the acquisition and the use of knowledge, skills and qualifications to facilitate personal development. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES • To improve the quality and to increase the volume of co-operation between institutions or organisations providing learning opportunities, enterprises, social partners and other relevant bodies throughout Europe

CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN PRIORITIES LDV • Priority 2: – Developing the quality and attractiveness of VET systems and practices EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE • The partner entities will benefit of a know-how acquired and consolidated through the experience lived during the IN_Food Quality project.

EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE (CONT.) – The possibility to become the IN_Food Quality in a sustainable Project, through the transferring to other context, and in the way to make the results matches with the needs of the partners entities. – The IN_Food Quality products are made in a support of flexibility and universality, making its adjustment perfectly possible, in function of the needs of each partnership. – By the fact that products benefit from the contact with other cultures and particularize of each country, its quality can also be improved. – Consolidation of the role of the partners entities, concerning to the practices of continuous training, particularly at the level of FSH in a European base of exchange of knowledge and experiences. – Greater prestige of the partner‟s entities, when they participate on a transfer process, they are creating innovating processes and conditions for a greater specialization on their training area. – Capacity to influence the political systems, through mainstreaming of the results of the practices of transfer;

EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE (CONT.) – Created by the specialization on practice generated through the transferring process, the partnerships, can stay more experts, can increase the clientele of their products, and provide inexistent services. – Enlargement of the partners contacts with companies, institutions of the 3 sector or profitable, raised by the contacts established through the whole transferring process. – Increasing of know -how on terms of working on partnership.

LEONARDO DA VINCI-TRANSFER OF INNOVATION

TRANSFER TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS THE IQA’S PRODUCTS • IN_Food Quality aims to be the continuation of IQA project at a European level – It’s main objective is to help companies, mainly micro and small companies around Europe to improve their quality on FHS. • IN_Food Quality aims to be a transfer process of the: – products; – methodologies; – practices and – know-how achieved within IQA ( Innovate For Food Quality ) project

PRODUCTS TO BE TRANSFERRED • From IQA, two products are proposed to be transferred : – The product “ FHS – Pedagogical Kit ”, which include training manuals of FHS and the resources connected to it (pedagogical games, videos, activities, etc.); a narrative of construction and implementation practices for training; a methodological guide to support the training’s implementation. – The product “ Stamp Safe Food ” aims to be a reward to all the enterprises that meet the FHS requirements established by the project.

TYPE OF TRANSFER • This is a transfer process of products developed under the IQA project; • The strategy used for the transfer will be marked by its incorporation on companies and by the adjustment or inclusion on the programmatic contents of training institutions. – For this end, where are fit the companies that exercise their activity on the food sector (food industries, restaurants, supermarkets, butchers and so on). – the transfer carry a geographic dimension, experimented and validated, based on a endogenous reality, it will be intended, through this proposal to catapult the products to other geographic contexts (Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania).

IN_FOOD QUALITY PROJECT HAVE AS PRIMER GOAL – the transfer of the IQA products to businesses or other entities linked to the sector, with training capacity, in order to allow them to implement the strategy developed on IQA, on final beneficiaries and/or at the same time, transfer them to other similar institutions, in order to: • »» Increase the level of accomplishment of the requirements on HSF between micro and small companies on the food sector, using a attractive and innovating training methodology, based on a coaching process , evidenced by the “Pedagogic HSA - Kit” product. • »» Implement the “Selo Alimento Seguro” product as a way of recognition of the accomplishment of the HSF requirements; • »» give conscience to the companies on the food sector, as well as the final consumers, of the importance of the food security and significance of the skillful companies.