VIRTUALITY

CONCEPT, OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

Who ?

Current and future workers of the food sector, from the entire food chain (including agriculture)

Vocational training providers in Austria, Belgium and France.

For who ?

Current and future workers of the food sector, from the entire food chain (including agriculture)

Vocational training providers in Austria, Belgium and France.

Which field?

- Food safety
- Work safety
- Onbording

Desire to integrate alternation and ecological transition in the scenarios

Objectives

Propose new training tools related to Virtual Reality (VR), for workers of the food industry, through an unprecedented European cooperation.
Provide best practices to training centers.
Increase the attractiveness of the sector's professions, facilitate recruitment and boarding

Compliance with the objectives of the Erasmus+ programme: Sustainable development, digital transformation, creation of innovative, transferable and scalable pedagogical content.

PRESENTATION OF THE PARTNERS

Alimento groups together sectorial services for food companies, their workers, bakers and teachers. The Alimento group offers its services to more than 4,400 companies that together employ 91,000 people.

Scope:

Belgian food industry

Different sub-sectors: e.g. cookie factories, breweries and soft drink producers, dairy sector or the meat processing industry.

Objectives:

Alimento wants to contribute to more efficient and much better quality work in the food industry through training, advice and other initiatives by strengthening:
The skills of the workers;
The growth of food companies.

Previous project:

FormaDistance + Call for projects Wallonia

Operator of Competences (OPCO) for the Agricultural Cooperation, the Agriculture, the Fishing, the Food-processing Industry and the Territories.

OCAPIAT's ambition is to:
Support the competitiveness of companies and the economy;
Support the effort of professionalization of employees;
Develop local services in the territories;
To be a vector of efficiency in the service of branch or inter-branch policies in terms of professional training and work-study programs.

Key figures:
50 branches around the Agricultural Cooperation, Agriculture, Fishing, Agro-food Industry and the territories.

180,000 member companies and non-salaried managers (fishing and marine culture sector), 98% of which are companies with fewer than 50 employees.

More than 1.34 million employees represented, 57% of whom work in companies with fewer than 50 employees.

Lebensmittelversuchsanstalt

Austria´s leading private food safety service provider

Founded in 1927

We are committed to highest standards
We offer analysis
We provide expertise, inspections and certifications
We provide trainings
We do research and develop
We are an international multiplier

The National Association of Food Industries (ANIA) brings together 30 trade unions and 17 regional associations. The ANIA represents French food companies, major world leaders, ETIs and VSEs. The ANIA puts its expertise at the service of companies in order to accompany them towards an increasingly healthy, safe, sustainable and accessible food supply.

OUR COLLECTIVE AMBITION: to give value back to food.

ANIA'S MISSIONS :

To publicize and defend the challenges of competitiveness for companies and to promote a strategic sector, the largest industrial employer in France.
To support food companies in their efforts to make progress in the face of major societal changes.
Promote food companies and their employees who are committed every day to offering food that is increasingly healthy, safe, sustainable and accessible to all.