A EUROPEAN PROJECT FOR TRAINING IN THE AREA OF HEALTH CARE AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
Authors: Ciobanu Gabriela , Harja Maria , Barna Simona , Lazarov Andrean , Ciobanu Octavian 
Published: February 2023

Paper presents the main objectives and the methodology of an educational European Leonardo da Vinci project called "Launching of Sector Skills Alliance for Training & Apprenticeship of Health Care and Food Supplements Salespersons" (H-CARE). The H-CARE project uses advanced e-learning technologies to provide a platform-independent prototype for training and apprenticeship in the area of health care and food supplements. The project focuses on the main items of the management cicle: project planning, team building, transnational cooperation, evaluation, dissemination and exploitation. Following such approach, the project work programme consists of 9 work packages, which are autonomous but strictly linked to each other in order to give continuity to the project process. In order to get maximum benefit from partners' expertise, competencies and specific characteristic, partners will have different activities inside each work package, being, in rotation "core" and "supporter" to the partnership.
The project is totally in line with the Lisbon Convention objectives that clearly state education systems must be modernised to make Europe a world leader in the quality of its education & training systems. The H-CARE project provides a totally new approach on how to provide training support, by not only making use of them, but also training of people, seeking professional career in Health sector to become experts and to acquire a completely new qualification "Health care and food supplement salesperson". The current situation of the European labour market requires qualified work force, which is able to respond to the needs of new professions and job profiles, which will create an added value in provisions of services in health sector. In long term period the project will provide a solid base for further development training curriculum for prequalification in the vocational profile in question. Furthermore the universities themselves will be able to straighten their links to the business sector through introduction of innovative training curriculum (the proposed curriculum for "Health care and food supplement salesperson").This will respond to the demand of well qualified staff, eager to contribute to the prosperity of the companies, as soon as they are employed. On the other hand the companies from the Health sector will save a significant amount of money and other resource in order to improve the quality of recently hired personnel.
The project is also in line with the Europe 2020 strategy that calls for economic growth based on a smart, sustainable and inclusive model. The project offers exactly new skills for new jobs, providing opportunities for the inclusion of unemployed or low paid people in the EU job market.
In European context the project will be sustained by establishment of informal networks, which will bring together sector organizations, interested to introduce, adapt and mainstream the new job core profile in the practices of the companies from the Health Sector.