Description
Culinary Journeys: Exploring Global Flavors is an adult education group mobility that uses food as a shared language for learning, connection and active participation in community life. It is designed for adult learners of all backgrounds, including those with little previous training or fewer learning opportunities, and requires no cooking experience. Sessions use plain language, visual recipes and hands-on tasks so everyone can take part fully.
Through cooking workshops, tasting labs and team projects, participants explore how ingredients, techniques and food traditions travel and shape identity. Alongside practical cooking skills, the programme builds key competences for lifelong learning: intercultural and social skills, sustainable living, digital skills and civic engagement. Participants look at food as a tool for inclusion and community, reduce waste through green kitchen practices, and use simple digital tools to document and share their learning.
Each participant follows a personal learning path, from an initial self-assessment to a final review of competences gained. Participants leave with practical skills for everyday life, a group digital cookbook, a personal learning portfolio and an action plan to share what they learned with their organisation and local community.
MOBILITY OVERVIEW
- Work respectfully and effectively in diverse teams, sharing tasks, decisions and responsibilities.
- Evaluate and adapt recipes to dietary, cultural and sustainability criteria.
- Integrate healthy, sustainable and low-waste food habits into daily life.
- Reflect on personal learning progress and share the experience with their organisation and local community.
- Apply basic cooking techniques such as knife skills, sautéing, steaming, marinating and baking.
- Prepare complete dishes by following, adapting and scaling recipes, including for different dietary needs.
- Use simple digital tools to find, photograph, document and share recipes and learning.
- Plan a balanced, low-waste and budget-conscious menu using seasonal ingredients.
- Communicate in English with basic culinary vocabulary within a diverse team.
- Understand how migration, trade and history have shaped food traditions and how food reflects shared values and cultural diversity.
- Identify key ingredients, spices and flavour profiles used in different cuisines.
- Recognise the principles of healthy, seasonal and sustainable eating, including the environmental impact of food choices and food waste.
- Explain basic food safety and hygiene rules for cooking in group settings.
- Recognise the role of food in social inclusion, community life and local initiatives such as community kitchens and food sharing.
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Documentation support.
- Admin & organizational costs.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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