2009-03-01
Euroserve Partnership – second working meeting in Ripon (UK)The partners in the Euroserv project (European Competencies for Food and Drink Service) held a second working meeting. It took place in Ripon, a small picturesque city in the UK, On February 23-24, 2009. Euroserv is part of the project "Working Together to Develop Competency Frameworks Partnership" within the Leonardo Partnership program. The hosts of the meeting were our partners from MRS Consultancy Ltd (UK), Mrs. Margaret Simmonds and Mr. Roy Smith, and the working team was made up of Asset Technology Ltd. (GR), Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu National Louis University (PL), Fondazione "Luigi Clerici" (IT) and the Social and Economic Training Institute (RO).
Working together in a pleasant environment, the transnational team defined the competency framework for waiters, wine waiters (sommelier), restaurant managers and some others, in order to harmonize the requirements and to propose common European standards in the field. The project also includes sessions of participative observation in different quality level restaurants from the partner countries, their aim being the comparison of serving requests and the elaboration of European standards. This means that the transnational team members are to combine work and pleasure.
You can find the previous and the current project activities, working documents, photos and video images from the formal or less formal team meetings in an attractive media format on the project website, http://euroserve.ning.com/.
The next meeting will be held in Milan, on June 5-6, 2009.
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