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 !

Ecuisine and IdA in the newspapers !

At the begining of Ecuisine was IdA, a program meant to enable german students from TGz, our partner in Neuruppin, to spend one month working in the kitchen of some top notch french restaurants in Bayeux.

Last month, 8 new students came to France to live the french experience. This experience proved once again to be a life changer for these students and the people that worked with them.

Last week was their "graduation ceremony" and it was very moving to see those kids surrounded by their host families and new co-workers : you could actually grasp how grateful everybody was in every word.

As we mentioned before, their coming was for the Ecuisine project an opportunity to run a few test on some of our products and their graduation ceremony was a great opportunity to say a few words about Ecuisine and explain how this will become an essential tool for the forthcoming editions of the IdA exchange program.

Here is the support we used for that presentation. We made using one of my new favourite tools : Prezi. It's a clever way to spread a message using pictures, text and videos. Nothing too exceptional it seems but just try it and you'll never open Microsoft Powerpoint again.

Ecuisine, apprendre la cuisine et les langues en ligne on Prezi

Getting there ! A few news before Glasgow Seminar

A few news from the project as the 4 partners are about to meet in Glasgow for the WP2 seminar.

Our dear Scottish friends in Anniesland college is still in the process of filming their 4 recipes. They will be hosting the next seminar and I'm sure they'll have plenty of exciting things to show us.

German team has been working hard on its own courses.
Following the model set by the french team, they've been able to finalize all the videos for their first course : the Berliner Kartoffelsuppe, AKA the famous The Potato soup, Berlin style. You'll soon know everything to know about what makes german soups so unique.

The Polish team took a different approach : they decided they would start by shooting all the videos for their 4 recipes. And they did. They sent the files and they are perfectly neat : nice fast pace editing, clear pictures and sounds and yummy recipes featuring pierogis, beetroots, cottage cheese and cabbage... and if you thought there wasn't such a thing as "Polish food", prepare to be amazed !

In France, all videos have been shot, edited and uploaded to the YouTube Channel. All the courses for the first recipe, "the norman pie" is ready and being translated in German in order to be tested by beneficiaries of TGZ OPR GmbH. Those lovely guinea pigs are soon coming to France and they shall be prepared in the best way possible for this experience !

Also, we started working with a compagny based in Caen in order to find a solution for the deployment of the course. We found many ! And I'll tell you all about them... but just not now :-)

Happy cooking from the Ecuisine team !

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."**

Transfers and mobility

 In this article you will discover how came the idea of the project : a common goal to encourage mobility and improve employability within students and to work together on a european scale to transfer expertise in creating e-learning tools.