The global objective of UPDATEST is to equip people in the food sector with workplace-oriented, skills and competences about new inspection technologies for food quality, safety and defence assurance. With this purpose, the following calendar of activities has been designed:
November ’16 – April ’17
A validation analysis will be performed in the field of professional and learning practices by surveying a minimum of 100 stakeholders. The conclusions of such analysis will serve as a basis for the production of the guidelines for both the in-person and e-learning programmes (result R1). These guidelines will be eventually reviewed on the grounds of the conclusions of the pilot activities in A3. PILOT.
April ’17 – March ’18
As a result of the project we will analyze, structure and implement a programme of contents on the objective subject, where we will find presentations, documents, didactic materials based on scientific or technical publications, information on inspection instruments (photographs, videos, brochures, etc … ), Which will be organized and structured based on an online training course, classified in units and subjects, with evaluation activities and collaborative tools for student-student and student-teacher interaction.
March ’18 – August ‘18
Two pilot, in-person and on-line courses will be executed in order to assess the learning programmes. Subsequently, the courses will be evaluated in order to obtain the assessment and validation of the products against the criteria defined in activity A1. GUIDELINES as well as to improve the quality of the guidelines and materials of the courses (results R1, R2 and R3).
November ’16 – October ’18
A Communication and Dissemination Plan will be designed in order to distribute information about UPDATEST to a wide and varied audience. It will include several ICT-based tools (project and partners’ websites, the Erasmus+ dissemination platform, blogs, newsletters…), appearances in mass media, organisation of events (seminars, workshops…), etc.
November ’16 – October ’18
An Exploitation and Sustainability Plan that will be designed in order to ensure the post-project use of the results, the extension to other audiences or knowledge areas, and the influence on future policies and practices.
November ’16 – October ’18
A Management Plan will be designed that will serve as a basis for the follow-up and control of the progress, timing, cost and quality of the project results. Moreover, the following four project meetings have been planned:
1. Kick-off meeting: Valencia (Spain), Nov’16.
2. Second follow-up meeting: Athens (Greece), Jun‘17.
3. Third follow-up meeting: York (UK), Apr‘18.
4. Closure meeting: Rome (Italy), Oct‘18.
As a result of the updatest project, an online training platform based on Moodle will be developed. All the contents have been developed collaboratively by the team of project partners and are available from this platform.