Ecuisine at Salon de l'hotellerie Restauration in Caen

Yesterday, the French team went to its first professional fair to present and promote the Ecuisine project !



The Forum emploi de l'Hôtellerie et de la restauration held in Caen on the 19th of March was a meeting point for teenagers and young adults to come meet all the professional in the hosting and catering trade. This fair was devoted to job and training seeking and the main operators of the sector were there to present their offers.

Those flyers are just as catchy as an open chocolate bar...

Ecuisine was there too ! Courtesy of our silent partner APIH (Association des Professionnels Indépendants de l'Industrie Hotelière) who was clearly one of the main attraction there, we were able to talk about the project with many curious students or parents.

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Unfortunately we were not able to display the roll-up we made last year or even to showcase some of our courses but the flyer clearly caught the eyes of the passers-by!

It was a great opportunity to start a conversation on what the project is about and what our intentions are: enable mobility for young professionnals on a European level.

People's response to our description of the project was very exciting: it's easy to talk about the project and people instinctively understand the value of a working experience abroad. To our astonishment, what seemed at the begining like a simple technological choice, uploading the videos on YouTube, really raises interest among youngsters and adults alike.

The only downside was when we told them the project would not be ready before the end of the year, but we'll take it as a good sign that the project has a strong potential !

Next week is another important fair in Lower Normandy : Deauville ! The famous beach resort and host of the American Film Festival will welcome the 10e Salon de l'Hôtellerie et de la Restauration on the 25th of March. The French team will be there to talk about the project some more !

Learning x (cooking + languages) = Ecuisine

The originality in the Ecuisine lies in the fact that it is not only an online cooking course but that each of the cooking course produced by its 4 partners will offer the trainees from the other partners the opportunity to follow their cooking course thanks to 2 language modules.

The aims are twofold :

1. Create a new distance learning offer in basic cuisine tranferring French approach, available to more partners as support for trainers and apprentices within the partnership and create new tools fully adapted  to non-native speakers preparing work experience abroad
2. Enable trainees to apprehend both basic professional languages, strongly connected to the activities, and the cultural and occupational differences to prepare work experience abroad.

The E-Cuisine project under the spotlight

In its 28th issue (october 2011), the magazine Soleo* features an article on mobility issues inside Europe and the Leonardo da Vinci program, one of its main vector. E-Cuisine is presented as "a linguistic and intercultural tool that is innovative, and adaptable to many countries."**

How it all started ?

The "E-Cuisine" project in its European form was born through the need to prepare German beneficiaries for work experience periods in France.

This began as early as 2007 when e-learning tools were presented to German trainers and experts in different seminars in preparation for a mobility scheme in the framework of an Equal initiative for German kitchen apprentices.

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