Feeding Optimization by Organization and Digitization – a sustainable way to improve the quality assurance in police training

"<< Background >>Just like the activity of public order and safety, the public food services offered to future policemen during their professional training must respect and align with European strategies in the field, and the staff with responsibilities in the activity of feeding the livestock must have the specialized professional knowledge necessary for such an activity. Through the Institutional Development Project of our school, our unit has established as directions of action ""increasing and updating the level of professional knowledge of school employees"" and ""implementing modern work tools and methods (including TIC, integrated information systems) for effective management of human, logistical and financial resources"". In order to achieve these goals, our school actively sought solutions to adapt and improve its student feeding process and adapt it both to the needs of the learners and to the European strategic context in the field.<< Objectives >>From the stage of writing the application, the Gantt chart of project activities was developed and a plan was designed to achieve, monitor and evaluate them so that, by going through each stage to ensure the achievement of objectives, respectively improving the skills of staff involved in feeding students and adopting modern means of planning and organizing feeding in a sustainable way through the use of digital technology.<< Implementation >>The following activities were implemented within the FOOD Project: 1. FOOD Project Opening conference–09 June 2022; 2. Transnational meeting in Hungary 15-16 June 2022; 3. Job shadowing in Romania 28 June-1 July 2022 (8 participants from MRVT and 10 from SAPSM); 4. Job shadowing in Hungary 11-14 July 2022 (8 participants from MRVT and 8 from SAPSM); 5. Nutrition Training in Romania 17 - 21 October 2022 (8 participants from MRVT and 10 from SAPSM); 6. Nutrition Training in Hungary 14 - 18 November 2022 (8 participants from MRVT and 9 from SAPSM); 7. Transnational meeting in Romania 24 - 27 September 2023; 8. National Conference on nutrition in Romania 27 - 29 September 2023; 9. National Conference on nutrition in Hungary 11 - 12 October 2023; 10. Mini Nutrition Methodology for the use of Staff involved in feeding police schools’ students 30 October 2023; 11. Creating the Software Applications for daily menu planning and food resource management (iFOOD and xFOOD) until 30 of October 2023; 12. FOOD Project Closing conference 09 of November 2023. << Results >>The project had as results: - A Mini Nutrition Methodology for the use of Staff involved in feeding police schools’ students; - A software application for the daily menu planning and the food resource management (for reasons related to the legislation on classified information the Project includes two components: A. iFOOD – which ensured menu planning and preparation, efficient management of resources and automatic preparation of documents specific to the feeding activity and, B. xFOOD – which ensured the enrolment and allocation of students to the table according to the options provided, and keeping a nominal record of the meals served and the statement necessary for the calculation of school expenses. Through it, the food is released according to the recorded information); - Two Job shadowing for the school staff involved in feeding students; - Two Training sessions for the school staff involved in feeding students; - Two National conference on nutrition in schools from the national defense system, public order and national security system; - Two Transnational project meetings; - Opening and closing conference."