IZSAM in Spain for the "Erasmus Plus" MicroQLab project

The kick-off meeting of the MicroQLab project was held in Valencia, Spain, on 29 April, 2015.

The project, led by AINIA Technology Center, Valencia (Spain), involves the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale”, the ISQ Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Lisbon (Portugal) and the KIN Lebensmittel Institute, Neumünster (Germany).

Chiara Albanello and Francesca Pompei from the IZSAM Training Unit attended the meeting.

MicroQLab is the first project funded to IZSAM under the European Program "Erasmus Plus", key action "Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices", and it will be concluded in December 2016.

The project, supported within the framework of the "Strategic Partnerships in the field of education, training and youth", is aimed at developing and testing at European level an innovative eLearning programme on quality systems in food microbiology laboratories.

The main purpose of this training module is to transfer the required skills for the set up and the management of a quality system, based on the ISO 17025, to researchers and technicians applying

multidisciplinary contents and interactive methodologies.

Starting from a detailed training need analysis to subsequently develop the training programme, the project will focus on the production of eLearning multimedia tools, the localization of the training module in the different project partners languages and its delivery to at least 80 participants.

The planned activities will also favor the creation of a strategic cooperation partnership among European institutions working in the field of food microbiology.