NO LEFTOVER Nordic/Baltic Culinary Arts
“NO LEFTOVER Nordic/Baltic Culinary Arts: digital course with training materials and tools for adult educators” (project number NPAD-2022/10049) Nordplus project aims to enhance teaching methods of adult educators in culinary arts focusing on Nordic/Baltic traditional and contemporary cuisine with approach of NO LEFTOVERS at different stages including planning ingredients and portions, cooking, serving, selling, marketing the dishes and cuisine concepts, finding reasonable consumption ways for leftovers, responsible handling of final stage waste.
Partners’ organisations will enrich qualitative adult education resource capacity for digital life-long learning in organizational contexts. They will strengthen cooperation in exploring, promoting Nordic/Baltic cuisine traditions, share the ways of local products use. Partners will develop capacity in academic, entrepreneurial, social, cultural and entertainment sectors, promote diversity and cultural heritage on the regional level, exchange good practices and traditions of regional cuisines.
The culinary arts, and specifically Nordic/Baltic cuisine, has very old interesting history, traditions, recipes, methods, and the contemporary culinary arts involve these old traditions, sustainability aspects such as keeping cultural heritage and using local products, integration of the modern and traditional preservation and no leftover techniques, innovations and digitalisation.
The consortium of 2 Nordic countries, 3 Baltic countries will learn from each other and develop digital education resources for adult education in culinary arts with a comprehensive interactive course in English, Danish, Estonian, Icelandic, Latvian and Lithuanian available for wider adult educators’ audience of these countries. Partners’ organisations will enrich qualitative adult education resource capacity for digital life-long learning in organisational contexts. They will strengthen cooperation in exploring, promoting Nordic/Baltic cuisine traditions with responsible attitude, share the ways of local products use, accumulation of diversified traditional and modern culinary approaches, serving styles, no leftover practices at professional, amateur, household levels.
Partners will develop the course ‘NO LEFTOVER Nordic/Baltic Culinary Arts: digital course with training materials and tools for adult educators’ and strength the ideology of NO LEFTOVER not only at household and amateur level, but also at professional level within the adult educational programmes. The project partners will demonstrate the approaches to integrate the classy and modern traditional Nordic/Baltic culinary arts with mastery of NO LEFTOVER at all levels of culinary arts in a detailed, creative, informative and inspirational way.
The five project results shaping the course will serve as attractive materials, tools to aid adult educators for raising extrinsic and intrinsic motivation of their adult learners in applying the principles of NO LEFTOVER in culinary arts. The two dissemination webinars, the three face-to-face workshops are included in the activities.
Primary target group of adult educators include adult educators working with culinary arts programmes at professional and amateur level. In addition, secondary target group are adult educators working with adults within the social programmes, leisure activities, business trainings and coaching, lifelong learning workshops, seminars, networking events, where the activities of culinary arts, events with serving food are embedded.
The project partners from Latvia, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania will learn from each other and from partner cultures during cooperation to demonstrate how NO LEFTOVER Nordic/ Baltic Culinary Arts and ICT work together to optimize use of resources, share traditions and experiences.
Partners
HOTEL SCHOOL - Hotel Management College (Latvia)
‘Com&Train” company (Denmark)
Mittetulundusühing Mitra (Estonia)
‘Skref fyrir skref ehf’ / ‘Step by Step’ (Iceland)
Vilniaus Kolegija - University of Applied Sciences (VIKO), the Faculty of Business Management (Lithuania)
