Popup Restaurant - innovative e-learning route to self-entreprenurship in line with ECVET procedures
- Adela Vitkovska
- Nov 6, 2025
- 6 min read
Start date 01-09-2017–End date 30-11-2019
EU Grant–290.834,00 €
Programme–Erasmus+
Key Action:
Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type:
Strategic Partnerships for adult education
Countries covered–6
Coordinator
N.E.T. (NETWORKING EDUCATION AND TRAINING) ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
VIA ALFIERI 9
35020 PONTE SAN NICOLO PD
🇮🇹 Italy
Coordinator Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: 0039-049-8961994
Summary
The so called Pop-up restaurants or underground restaurants are quickly becoming an alternative to traditional dining out, particularly in this difficult economic era. A Pop-up restaurant offers many of the same benefits as a traditional brick and mortar restaurant, without the high cost of opening. This new tendency can be considered as a development of the “chef at home” phenomenon. Yet, these Pop-up restaurants are not only organising single dinners but real social events with places for numbers of up to 20 or more.
The meeting places between Pop-up restaurants and customers come in special platforms. The widest Italian community is Gnammo.com, as well as the much appreciated KitchenParty.org. The growth of the Pop-up restaurants is increasing so much that also in the big worldwide platform of Airbnb a service for booking Pop-up restaurants will be active soon.
The business catering training will be focused on sustainable food like zero miles and organic ingredients to give life to a zero impact and green business giving the opportunity to eat healthy. The possibilities of employment are many, which is why the Pop-up restaurant project is aimed at designing an on-line learning course. This will be available in all the languages of the partnership for use across Europe especially in partner countries to train long term unemployed to become self entrepreneurs wanting to start up their own business as a real and qualified job.
The Pop-up restaurant curriculum was based on standards of the European Qualification Framework for lifelong learning (EQF) in line with the ECVET procedures. The experimentation was at a basic level but it was really useful for the assessment of the participants level.
The activities and results of the project are:
1. Common curriculum - a common route of the 100 hour curriculum for self entrepreneurship based on a Pop-up restaurant was leveled in accordance with ECVET procedures in
partner organisations countries and provides leveling at around EQF level 2 or 3 which is equivalent to workplace level qualifications.
Results: 100-hour ECVET certified training curriculum. The course was formed of 6 modules: Business Start Up, Marketing and Communications, Customer Care, Nutritional
Aspects, Green and Zero Miles Provision, Cooking Green + legislation. The duration of each module varies accordingly.
2. Adaptation of the curriculum in e-learning – Adaptation of the Model into 2 interactive, connected and open source platforms:
The content one was http://myclyde.ac.uk/
The more interactive one was https://popup4all.eu/en
The platforms material is in all the languages of the partnership: English, Italian, Spanish, German and Latvian
3. Piloting the Pop-up restaurant curriculum - testing the model in Italy, Spain, Latvia, Germany and UK. 52 people were piloted. 10 to12 in each country.
Results: evaluation questionnaires from trainees, the trainer and the partner. 5 evaluation reports, one for each country. Final piloting validation report in English plus a short
summary of the report in all the languages of the partnership.
4. Pop-up restaurant work-placement – placement of the trainees into business of the sector followed and supported by a project and business tutor.
Results: 5 evaluation reports, one for each country. Evaluation questionnaires from Trainees, the trainer and the partner. Final validation report of the work-placement and a short
summary in all the languages of the partnership
5. Dissemination activities: the project was disseminated by using the dedicated web site (www.popuprestaurant.eu, the dedicated brochure in all the languages of the partnership, the
Instagram for the Pop-up_restaurant profile and a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/popup.eu.project/. There were also dissemination meetings in each country. In addition
there were stakeholder meetings, transnational meetings, articles, radio interviews and mail communications.
Results: dedicated web site, pages in the social media platforms, information brochures, local dissemination conferences, interviews recordings, newspaper articles and reports.
6. Evaluation and quality control: following the evaluation strategy the project will be monitored and controlled to see that results and activities are developed.
Results: 4 evaluation reports plus 1 final evaluation report.
Target groups are:
• unemployed people who want to start up their own business. The project reached more than 50 people during its lifetime in each country.
• trainers/teachers who will benefit from new and dynamic training materials with a proven track record and the transfer of these materials. The project reached around 100 trainers along
the project.
• employer associations: they may deliver the course for unemployed people giving them a strong base to start up their business.
The creation of 2 platforms located in the free domain of Glasgow Clyde college gives the opportunity to go on distributing and delivering training transversally after the end of the project. Transferability of the products is one of the main characteristics. WEBPAGE: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2017-1-IT02-KA204-036465
Partners
Asociación ACE (Aprende, Coopera y Emprende) 🇪🇸 Spain
Covadonga, 8-1º derecha
24004 León
Castilla y León
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +34609083074
BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia
ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37
1067 RIGA
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE - THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
MOSSPARK DRIVE 690
G52 3AY GLASGOW
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Vocational Training (tertiary level)
Phone: +441412723802
MOSQI.TO 🇵🇱 Poland
Wigury 13/10
90-302 LODZ
Łódzkie
🇵🇱 Poland
Partner Type: Company specialized in new technologies applicable to the Audiovisual industry
Phone: +48668393021
VOLKSHOCHSCHULE IM LANDKREIS CHAM EV 🇩🇪 Germany
PFARRER SEIDL STRASSE 1
93413 CHAM
BAYERN
🇩🇪 Germany
Partner Type: School/Institute/Educational centre – Adult education
Phone: +499971850110
Results
Feedback from participants
Piloting validation report in English
Description
Common final validation report of the piloting experienc ein the framework of the popup restaurant project
Type
Polls, satisfaction surveys
Contents
Workshop validation report in English
Description
Common validation report in English of the workshop organised in every partner country.
Type
Polls, satisfaction surveys
Contents
Community building tools
popup restaurant interactive platform
Description
Tests and exercises were uploaded in a second and interactive platform developed by Mosqi.To.
It was in all the languages of the partnership.
The platform was created from scratch:
Type
Online platform
popup restaurant curriculum and the moodle platform
Description
The 100 hour curriculum was developed by all parnters in a joint action activity. the units were divided and the contents developed using templates and forms issued by the Scottish partner. the Units were: business start up - ACE Marketing and communication - Glasgow Clyde College Customer Care - Eurofortis Nutritional aspects - VHS Zero mile provision - Associaizione NET Cooking Green - Associazione NET All the material and contents were uploaded in all the languages of the parntership in a moddle Platform at these links:
English: http://myclyde.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=139
Italian: http://myclyde.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=163
Spanish: http://myclyde.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=160
German: http://myclyde.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=161
Latvian: http://myclyde.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=162
Type
Online platform
Dissemination material
popup facebook page
Description
Develoment of the poup facebook page where articles, initiatives, events and feed backs were periodically uploaded: https://www.facebook.com/popup.eu.project/
Type
Social media coverage
popup instagram profile
Description
Activation of an instagram profile to reach stakeholders https://instagram.com/popup_restaurant?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=13co7i19v2ql6
Type
Social media coverage
Pictures from dissemination activities
Description
A miscellaneous of pictures taken from partners dissemination activities
Type
Photos
Contents
Final dissemination report
Description
Description of the dissemination activities implemented during the project.
Type
Figures of performance of dissemination
Contents
Others
Parntership Framework Agreement
Description
Partnership Framework Agreement (PFA): implemented at the beginning of the project and it was an agreement amongst all partners. It included the dissemination plan and strategy, quality assurance plan, a valorisation strategy, monitoring and evaluation strategy detailing the project's internal and external evaluation processes. This ensured that all partners shared expectations from the outset on these matters and it was standing item for review at each partner meeting. This helped to pick up any difficulties and give space for them to be discussed.
Type
Other: Management and implementation
Contents
Quality evaluation plan
Description
Quality evaluation strategy developed at the begining of the project
Type
Other: Evaluation strategy
Contents
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