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Healthy food choices for a sustainable future
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Healthy Food Choices for a Sustainable Future (Healthy Future) project focuses on the subjects of healthy food choices, climate change and vegetable enhanced diet and networking between vocational schools and enterprises from the Hotel, Restaurant and Catering industry in different European countries. At the same time the project seeks new innovative ways to utilize digital tools to enable the learning also for individuals who don’t have a chance to or can’t for some reason study in a classroom (e.g. students with fewer opportunities or learning disabilities, refugees or immigrants without proper language skills or who are illiterate). The main focus is implementing sustainable development and the usage of social media and digital tools in vocational education and training. The objective of this project is to strengthen and broaden catering education to meet the needs of the society and environment. The purpose is to find answer to the question what needs to be done to minimize the carbon footprint. The more concrete aim is to develop procedures to meet the needs of sustainable development and to produce climate and environment friendly meals. To attract the students to follow these new procedures different kinds of competitions and pop-up restaurant concepts will be created. These enhance also the students’ entrepreneurial skills and help them in the future working life.The world of education is facing major changes. The new teaching methods emphasize learning outcomes instead of contents of which only the outlines have been specified. Assessment criteria has been developed by specifying criterion for each learning outcome. This can be seen as an implication of the development of educational technology, e.g. different digital learning environments, social media and mobile devices. This change also relates to the digitalization that penetrates through all the areas of society, to the required new skills and the explosive increase of digital interaction. Together all these changes have a strong impact in teaching and learning processes.Using social media in education contains a new procedure that changes the customary roles of a teacher and students. This new procedure emphasizes sharing, networking and co-operation instead of individualistic approach. It enables personalized study paths. It derives from the student’s internal motivation and thrives to support his active human agency. It also emphasizes open, non-formal and lifelong learning and changes the assessment criteria. The change to previous procedures is significant. In the next few years mobile devices will probably replace the traditional school books entirely. The use of social media and digital tools in education supports the principals of knowledge building, adaptive expertise and exploratory learning.Mozilla Open Badges make it possible to make learning and achievements visible. The technology gives the education practitioners the possibility to break the existing barriers between different forms of learning; formal, informal and non-formal. With badges, it is possible to expand recognition of learning outside the formal school setting to all aspects of learners lives.Using different kinds of digital tools and Open Badges makes it possible to take the learning process out of the classroom into the work places more easily. At the same time, it enables the accreditation of prior learning and makes the learning process also more appealing and easy for the youngsters who wouldn’t necessarily be so attracted to the more conventional learning. These new approaches make it also possible for the illiterate or individuals with learning difficulties or with low language skills to learn things they otherwise couldn’t learn. Enhancing the entrepreneurial skills plays a significant role in the future employment and self-employment of the students. The different aspects of social and so called normal entrepreneurship help the students to accommodate themselves in different contexts and makes it easier for them to also adopt to working abroad.There are five partner organisations from three countries in this project. The Finnish partner Omnia coordinates the project and the partnership of two Croatian partners Centar Slava Raškaj Zagreb and Hotelijersko-Turistička I Ugostiteljska Škola -Zadar HTUŠ, the Italian partner Galileo.it S.r.l. and another Finnish partner Ekami.
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