Presentation of the exchange:
The exchange focused on activities related to management of a nutrition center, on the approach and strategy related to customer needs, on new approaches to preparing and cooking healthy food and changing the eating habits.
In the first week, NE got familiar with the new working environment. The HE explained and showed his business strategy and the way he is performing his activity related to the clients’ needs.
In the second week, the NE started to understand the financial management of a nutrition center. The HE introduced the NE to all his active projects.
The third week was about starting to help the HE in managing the patients, making nutrition plans and understanding the clients’ needs. The NE started to help in an active way the HE’s activities. They analyzed the NE’s business plan and talked about a future collaboration.
In the fourth week, the NE was making nutrition plans for the patients. They discussed about different approaches to food preparation and cooking in Romania and Italy.
In the last 3 days of the exchange, they discussed about the possibility of extending the HE’s activity in Romania and making a collaboration in the future. They reviewed the NE’s business’s plan. The NE learned how to track a marketing campaign.
Profile of the entrepreneurs:
The NE of this exchange was Alexandra Vornicu and she attended a one month-exchange(04.09.2017-04.10.2017). The NE was looking for gaining competences in the entrepreneurial area in the nutrition field, learning how to start a business and how to make it work in optimal parameters. In a more precise way, she would have liked to learn about establishing business partnerships, about marketing strategies, financial management and about the approach and strategy related to customer needs. Apart from the entrepreneurial aspect of the exchange, she would have liked to understand and be involved in the assessment of the patients with specific health conditions, in the development and implementation of individualized nutrition programs, in the evaluation of the patients’ progress.
The HE of this exchange was Galatà Domenicantonio, his sector of activity is health services and his business is taking place in Rome, Italy. He was looking for sharing his knowledge in the entrepreneurial and nutrition field with a young entrepreneur from Romania, offering practical knowledge about how to manage a nutrition a nutrition centre, how to cook healthy food and how to help people to change their nutritional habits. He wanted to find more about the Romanian market in the nutrition field, to mix different ideas and experiences with a future physician willing to setup a collaboration with the goal to change the nutritional habits of the people and develop new approaches to food preparations and cooking.
Quote of the NE
I think that this exchange was a very helpful experience for my future career and I hope that a lot of people will get to know about this program in order to develop their entrepreneurial skills and many other skills that the HEs are willing to teach them about. This is an experience that I would recommend because it can establish opportunities for future collaboration and can be the starting point for networking, an essential aspect in the business field.
Quote of the HE
I believe that this exchange is a win-win situation for all involved. It can increase my business opportunities at the European level and prepare me for new markets. The NE can develop during the exchange entrepreneurial skills and also nutritional planning’s skills. This exchange can establish opportunities for a future collaboration between me and the NE.
New and experienced entrepreneurs shall apply for the programme via the web page www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu
For further information about the programme:
Ms. A. Sarateanu, CSCS
anna.sarateanu@cscs.it
This article was funded by the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020).
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