Global & Local has concluded the preliminary study foreseen by the Erasmus Healthy Food project.

The preliminary study proposed here aims to offer an accurate framework of the partner countries involved in the Project, with respect to the topic of professional training in the catering sector, school-work alternation and the phenomenon of school dropout.
Thanks to the involvement of the partners, quantitative and qualitative data on the topics mentioned were collected from official sources (research bodies, public institutions, trade associations, universities), aggregating the statistical information and offering a key to interpretation.

The implementation of this study is particularly important in relation to the elaboration of result 1 (Implementation of the technological HUB), result 3 Intermediate study of the results of the HUB in the social and work integration of the project and in general for the experimentation of the pedagogical model that it will be implemented in each partner country, within educational institutions working in the catering sector.
For each country we analyzed the following dimensions:
• Employment situation in your country under
• Employment situation in your country sector catering and gastronomy
• Statistical data for vocational training sector catering
• Early school leaving data for secondary schools in the catering sector
• Data on school-work alternation R 2_ Initial Study_ ealthy eating for smart people