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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Then, under a jointly-funded R Bosch Foundation and Leonardo Da Vinci action  e-GRETA was used to prepare German apprentices and their leaders prior to placements in hotels and restaurants in Lower Normandy.  These tools gave the German apprentices some grounding in French kitchen skills again before their placements under IdA programme which is still in place.

This platform is currently used within the Lower Normandy Greta Network in keeping with the curriculum for the French state education diploma : "CAP Cuisine".  It of course has no specific aims as a tool for foreign learners, however the possibility of transferring the existing French approach to a European hub and then providing multilingual access through the Internet, is an extremely attractive prospect to all those who have witnessed its very simple placement preparation potential with the German partners.

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 During further meetings with other interested partners which took place in 2008, ideas were brought forward to create a motivating resource more readily accessible to the three non-French partners in countries where the Hospitality Industry is of great importance: Poland, the UK, and Germany, and where the use of the French language for technical reference is already commonplace, up to a certain point, in professional kitchens.