By Elena Novakova
Interreg, 2 Seas Mers Zeeen , FLAVOUR PROJECT, funded by the European Union (EU) focuses on Food surplus and Labour, the Valorisation of Underused Resources.
The FLAVOUR Project is a collaboration between 10 European implementing partners and 13 Observer partners in order to reduce food waste and increase employment opportunities for people with a distance to the labour market. Plymouth Marjon University is one of ten European partners working together on this project and Food Plymouth CIC is an observer partner.
One of the project packages focuses on developing the employability behaviours, competencies and skills required for those far from the labour market. Therefore we created a survey (to be distributed soon) with aim to identifying good practices in the coaching and training of target employees (such as persons far from the labour market, job seekers, volunteers, mentally disabled persons, …) in the food (surplus) sector concerning handling, processing (for human consumption), and distribution/sorting; and to share and identify behaviours, skills, competencies and experience of training and coaching people far from the labour market to be employed/self-employed in the food (surplus) sector and other sectors.
The research will be conducted at Marjon University Plymouth and we would like to invite organisations/associations in the food (surplus) sector to participate and share their best practice.
The collected examples of good practice and skills/competencies/behaviours needed in the food surplus sector, identified by managers/owners of targeted organisations will be summarised and form part of a ‘State of the industry report’.
