Int’l Pop-up Restaurant Project

Students and teachers of six colleges from four European countries gathered together 9th–10th Oct. 2014 in Helsinki to a Kick off of an inspiring, practical and encouraging new pedagogical learning model of entrepreneurship.

One of the global challenges today is juvenile unemployment. In a multi-cultural Pop-up project we bring together students and entrepreneurs providing entrepreneurship as a one ways of employment.

Let’s establish Pop-up Restaurants!

An Erasmus+ Programme funded pan-European educational Pop-up Restaurant Project offers an opportunity to learn and exchange good entrepreneurial practices and skills with international twist as well as to promote the EU’s broad diversity and intercultural awareness. In the project we encourage students to entrepreneurship, to build international networks and to take advantage of them as an opportunity to get employed.

Project participants

Italy: IPSAR Luigi Carnacina College
Finland: Helmi Business & Travel College, Mercuria Business College, Culinary School Perho and Restaurant Juuri
Latvia: Rigas Turisma un radosas industrijas tehnikums college, Restaurant Kaiku Varti
Spain: Col•legi Badalonès and Restaurant Comas Pastisseria

During the years 2014–2016 one hundred and twenty students, eight teachers and three restaurateurs from Finland, Italy, Latvia and Spain will participate in the project where the students establish a pop-up restaurant for two days in every participant country.

The students design all the pop-up restaurants from 0 to 100. They create the operative concepts, the visual set ups of the restaurants and go into founding of the company. They plan a.i. the restaurant’s marketing, sales, promotions and menus providing know-how of culinary and food cultures cross the participant countries.

Speed up – future professionals at work!
Work distribution will be reasonable: the business students take care of marketing, cook students of the menus and kitchen, and waiter students of serving. Yet as business partners every student has, of course, the mandate to impact in all fields of the project, too.

All plans and executions observe the cultural differences including legislation of hygiene and sanitation, and companies. The teachers and the experienced restaurateurs backup effort.

In the project students of Helmi accomplish a course of Entrepreneurship (10 crs).

Pop-up restaurants opening schedule and menu concepts

25.–31.1.2015 Helsinki / Finland (Spanish menu)
5/2015 Badalona / Spain (Finnish menu)
1/2016 Riga / Latvia (Italian menu)
5/2016 Bardolino / Italy (Latvian menu)

In between face-to-face sessions the teams keep on connecting on Lync, OneDrive and Facebook.

Int’l Pop-up Restaurant project – rousing learning by doing