Education and training development for the treatment of food allergies in the HoReCa sector 

A healthy lifestyle is more and more important since civilizational diseases are spreading continuously. There are a lot of innovative foods and ingredients on the market, but people with a food allergy or intolerance can face a complex problem because they have to avoid these ingredients and need to choose another healthy type of food that can substitute the “normal” nutrient.

We analyse and compare the regulatory environment and good practices and based on this information we elaborate a short cycle course. Our objective is to sensitize our students and external partners to understand the importance and difficulties of a life with food allergy and prepare them to satisfy special consumer needs as long as they work in hospitality and tourism. We apply the developed course material to our existing courses to give our students better chances to appear in the labour market. We will start short cycle courses for the managers and employees of the HoReCa sector the help them in serving the new and increasing needs of food allergies and intolerances.

Outputs:

• Collection of rules, best practices guide and proposal package
• Novel, short cycle course development
• Network development

BBU representatives from the International Project Office and the Department Responsible for the AACSB Accreditation visited ICN Nancy in October 2023, which was completed with a hybrid institutional visit organising several meetings where BBS colleagues met the representatives of ICN from different departments and units.

The colleagues of BBU from the International Project Office visited ICN Nancy as part of a staff exchange programme. They met the International Relations Department, the responsible staff for international promotion and admission processes at ICN. They also had the opportunity to talk with Krista Finstad-Milion, contact person of ICN in the ENVISAGE Alliance, and talked about the actualities of the proposal re-submission process and of course new project ideas as well.

On 24 October several hybrid meetings were organised at ICN helping the enlargement of the future collaborations between ICN and BBU involving representatives from Doctoral Schools, from departments responsible for international cooperations and collaborations, and international learning and teaching. Emphasised topics were the Administration for Research and Academic services and the Collaborative Online International Learning. ICN as AACSB accredited institution offered support for BBS to the ongoing accreditation process and shared good practices and gave useful advices for the coordination of the AACSB accreditation process at BBU.

NIBS (Network of International Business Schools) conference in 2022 in Budapest with the participation of BBU as NIBS member and HSW, ICN & ISAG from the ENVISAGE partnership

Participating in the 29th NIBS (Network of International Business Schools) Conference hosted at Budapest Business School between 19-22 June 2022 was a truly enriching experience. Participants of the conference got the chance to meaningfully engage in a global network of business schools that focuses on international business. Next to having a great opportunity to network with partner schools and make contribution to the progress of the network. The participants were certainly amazed by the hospitality of Hungarians and the beauty of what the country has to offer. NIBS is certainly a place to be.

As part of the agenda, we had the opportunity to introduce the progress and future plans of ENVISAGE Alliance through a presentation by Prof. Balázs Heidrich, Rector of BBU and a roundtable discussion with the participation of BBU, HSW, ICN and ISAG (former partner of ENVISAGE in the first application).

Connecting to the NIBS conference, partners of the ENVISAGE Alliance organised a partner meeting evaluating the submitted application in 2022 and preparing for the next steps in both cases – as a positive scenario when the proposal is selected for the grant and as a negative one, when it is not selected as a winning alliance – unfortunately it was not selected in 2022.

The main topic of the annual Day of Hungarian Sciences conference of Budapest Business University in 2022 was “Beyond Financial Reporting – Sustainability: Integrated Thinking and Integrated Reporting” connected to the fields of the ENVISAGE Alliance, which gave the reason for some of the partners for the participation

During the conference, plenary presentations and sections gave participants the opportunity to explore the current issues of sustainability and the regulatory environment, with a special focus on integrated thinking and reporting. The conference was a great occasion for the dissemination of the INTEREST project’s results led by BBU between 2019 and 2022 and also for an ENVISAGE hybrid partner meeting as well to discuss about the re-submission of the proposal for the 2023 call with the modified partnership (change of the Portuguese partner to UPT instead of ISAG, withdrawal of WUEB from Poland and EUBA from Slovakia).