This project (RO/03/B/F/NT 175064) has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

[ Home ] [ IKAN ] [ Photos ] [ Database ]
[ Transnational Network of Vocational Education and Training Centres (VETCs) for CEECs ]

Search this site or the web

Site search Web search

1. Target groups and Potential Users:
Designers and quality managers of SMEs and LEs; food industry employees; trainers, teachers, undergraduate and graduate students from Food science and Technology Faculties from Romania (USAMV- Cluj, University of Timisoara, University of Sibiu, Faculty of Baia-Mare); governmental and national agencies for Food Quality and Safety; consumer protection associations; Chambers of Commerce The selection of the target groups is based on the following principles:
Development of proper quality behaviour;
Development of safety awareness;
Training and promotion of SMEs’ and LEs’ employees;
More effective company communication;
Increased level of transparency and traceability of the product through the whole food chain;
Encouragement of teamwork;
Improvement of the work environment;
Improvement of productivity;
Increased Hygiene in Food SMEs and LEs;
Increased Food Quality and Safety;
Increases in Fruit and Vegetable exports in Ecological products from CEECs to the EU market;
Encouragement to develop dairy SMEs;
Increasing the EU citizens’ trust in CEEC foodstuffs;
Risk Analysis for Food Additives, Natural Additives.

2. Identifying needs:
Assuring that the EU has the highest standards of food safety is a key policy priority for the Commission. The process of enlargement and integration of the NAS at the EU level will require harmonization of CEEC food laws and the implementation of the EU Food Safety Policy/ Food Safety Legislation system in order to remain competitive. To ensure that a more unified and systematic approach is adopted in the application of combined systems in food processing and preservation, oriented towards a ‘Europe of Knowledge’ by developing a European area of cooperation between the Phare partners and encouraging the joining of other potentially interested partners in the field of VETC (CD 1999/382/EC : Establishing the second phase of the Community vocational training action programme ‘Leonardo da Vinci’- (Maastricht Treaty, Treaty 92-77-97160 ISSN 0254-1475 COM(95) 590 final), the project sets up a Transnational Network that will contribute to the creation of a European education area capable of achieving the objective of life-long and distance vocational training education and vocational training, identifying the strategies to be developed at Community level. The wide range of measures taken by governmental agencies and the EU Commission is utilized to improve and bring coherence to the VETC, covering all aspects of quality management systems applied in the food industry. The object is to establish a new framework for CEECs in the field of food safety training that will cover the whole of the food chain (including animal-feed production), and establish a high level of EU citizens’ health protection, that clearly attributes primary responsibility for safe food production to the industry, producers and suppliers. The implementation of this system is generally hampered by a lack of expertise and training in the subject. For these reasons there is a need for a Quality Management Network (QMN) which would develop and support the VETC for Food SMEs from the CEECs. This will encourage regional development, transparency and free access and dissemination of information (Green Paper : Education, Vocational Training, Research. The obstacles to transnational mobility. European Commission. Office of Official Publications of the European Communities. L-2985 Luxembourg) and will assure an organic and natural integration of that region into the EU that respects EU policies.

The aim of the project:
The purpose of the project is to establish a core group of CEECs’ food industries where capability can be built up to undertake safety and hygiene at EU standards in the improvement of current food technologies and to Introduce EU quality systems into the CEECs’ food industries during the enlargement and integration process.

List of Partners:

1. University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca/ RO USAMV
2. University of Sussex / SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research)/ UK UoS
3. EMonument/ BE EM
4. Trebag Vagyon és Projektmenedzser Kft/ Trebag Property and Project management Ltd/ HU Trebag
5. Szent Istvan University, Godollo/ HU SIU
6. Szegedi Tudományegyetem/ Mezogazdasági Foiskolai Kar/ HU STMFK
7. Tallinn Technical University/ EE TTU
8. The Association of Estonian Food Industry/ EE AIEF
9. University of Leon/ ES UoL
10. University of La Rioja/ ES UoLR
11. Hellenic Regional Development Center/ GR HRDC
12. IDEC SA/ GR IDEC
13. RAY Quality Systems/ IL RQS

OPERATIONAL TIMETABLE presentation (doc64kb)

1st Translational Workshop presentations produced by Western Greece Development Center (HRDC):

QUAMANCEEC presentation (ppt160kb)

QUAMANCEEC Dissemination presentation (ppt229kb)

QUAMANCEEC Leaflet Page 1 (pdf77kb)

QUAMANCEEC Leaflet Page 2 (pdf74kb)

QUAMANCEEC Manual, 'A MANUAL OF GOOD PRACTIICES IIN FOOD QUALIITY MANAGEMENT - Concepts and Practical Apprroaches in Agrifood Sectors' (pdf1mb)

QUAMANCEEC Manual Zipped (zipped897kb)

cd full colour QUAMANCEEC.pdf (208kb)

cartonsleeve QUAMANCEEC.pdf (286kb)

For details contact Mr. Iain C. Muse, CEO/Chairman, EMonument and USAMV-CN.

---

QUAMANCEEC.net

---