ABSTRACT
An Erasmus Plus project, titled NECTAR (aN Eu Curriculum for chef gasTro- engineering in primAry food) aims to deliver an EU Occupational Profile for Chef Gastro Engineering (CGE) and an EU Curriculum for the certification of this profile. This occupational qualification is a new and challenging profession in healthcare, able to manage a kitchen in any health care facility, to reach vulnerable people aging in place with food intake issues, and inspired by personalized, balanced, and sustainable nutrition criteria. These new professionals fit in a multidisciplinary network of chefs, doctors, dieticians, and nurses, to allow the long-term sustainability of food service and tackle malnutrition of elderly and patients. The competences for these professionals will be addressed by a learning-outcome based curriculum (EQF5) modelled in a flexible and modular way to support the contextualization in different EU countries. Five pilot courses will test the curriculum, with EQF 4 level students.
